Urban communities books

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Innovationspotenziale in Mexiko-Stadt

Innovationspotenziale in Mexiko-Stadt

Author: Karolina Kniest
ISBN: 9783639499346
Format: Paperback
$105.20

Innovationen sind in der heutigen Weltwirtschaft entscheidend für nachhaltigen Erfolg im globalen Wettbewerb und...  Read More >>

Remaking China's Great Cities: Space and Culture in Urban Housing, Renewal, and Expansion

Remaking China's Great Cities: Space and Culture in...

Author: Samuel Y. Liang
ISBN: 9780415695909
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book argues that the production of new urban spaces is a crucial means of state governance in contemporary...  Read More >>

Criminalidade urbana violenta

Criminalidade urbana violenta

Author: de Barros Afonso Ferreira Marianna
ISBN: 9783639680478
Format: Paperback
$213.55

Este livro investiga a configuração dos Crimes Violentos Letais e Intencionais - CVLI (homicídio, latrocínio e lesão...  Read More >>

Rethinking Urban Development: Exploring Cosmopolitanism and Regionalism in Post-Industrial Cities

Rethinking Urban Development: Exploring Cosmopolitanism...

Author: Vinita Pandey
ISBN: 9788131606537
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community

The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American...

Author: Miles Orvell
ISBN: 9781469617558
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community  Read More >>

Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration...

Author: Nicolas G. Rosenthal
ISBN: 9781469617565
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Global Gangs: Street Violence across the World

Global Gangs: Street Violence across the World

Author: Jennifer M. Hazen ,  Dennis Rodgers
ISBN: 9780816691494
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Gangs, often associated with brutality and senseless destructive violence, have not always been viewed as inherently...  Read More >>

The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and...

Author: Murray Stewart Leith ,  Duncan Sim
ISBN: 9780748681419
Format: Paperback
$75.01

Coinciding with Scotland's second year of Homecoming in 2014, this book brings together scholars to present a contemporary...  Read More >>

Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities and Inequalities

Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters,...

Author: Lars Meier (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9780415713030
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The...  Read More >>

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs of Progress in Chiang Mai

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs...

Author: Andrew Alan Johnson
ISBN: 9780824839710
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate...  Read More >>

The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and...

Author: Murray Stewart Leith ,  Duncan Sim
ISBN: 9780748681402
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Explores the connectedness of the diaspora to the homeland from a variety of different perspectives This book explores...  Read More >>

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs of Progress in Chiang Mai

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs...

Author: Andrew Alan Johnson
ISBN: 9780824839390
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate...  Read More >>

Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary

Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English...

Author: Ana María Fraile-Marcos
ISBN: 9781138775633
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book's most notable contribution lies in linking the notion of ‘glocality’, that is, the intermeshing of local...  Read More >>

Underprivileged School Children and the Assault on Dignity: Policy Challenges and Resistance

Underprivileged School Children and the Assault on Dignity:...

Author: Julia Hall (D'Youville College, USA)
ISBN: 9780415869782
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Every day, children living in low-income communities have no choice but to grow up in a climate where they experience...  Read More >>

The Elusive Dubai

The Elusive Dubai

Author: Venkata Matturi ,  Mahyar Arefi
ISBN: 9783639661453
Format: Paperback
$145.83

Increase in urbanization through globalization and population explosion has resulted in rapidly growing cities in...  Read More >>

Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention in Contemporary China: From Peasants to Protesters

Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention...

Author: Jeffrey Becker
ISBN: 9780739191859
Format: Hardback
$236.00

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The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

Author: Vania Ceccato
ISBN: 9789400797925
Format: Paperback
$336.35

With global case studies, this book traces the interplay between crime, and the fear of crime, and the wider urban...  Read More >>

The Collaborative City: Opportunities and Struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities

The Collaborative City: Opportunities and Struggles...

Author: John Betancur ,  Douglas Gills
ISBN: 9780415804455
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book explores Latino and Black and other relevant local experiences of collaboration and contention around...  Read More >>

Creative Industries and Innovation in Europe: Concepts, Measures and Comparative Case Studies

Creative Industries and Innovation in Europe: Concepts,...

Author: Luciana Lazzeretti (University of Florence, Italy)
ISBN: 9781138792197
Format: Paperback
$94.99

In recent years, the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic...  Read More >>

The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay

The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi,...

Author: Rashmi Varma
ISBN: 9781138793767
Format: Paperback
$114.00

"This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city...  Read More >>

Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro

Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to...

Author: Lawrence Herzog
ISBN: 9780415644730
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro offers a critical new perspective on the emerging...  Read More >>

Stadtbau- und Stadtplanungsgeschichte: Eine Einführung

Stadtbau- und Stadtplanungsgeschichte: Eine Einführung...

Author: Hildegard Schröteler-von Brandt
ISBN: 9783658025601
Format: Hardback
$184.77

Das Buch gibt einen souveränen Überblick über die Stadtbau- und Planungsgeschichte der europäischen Stadt von der...  Read More >>

The Urban South: A History

The Urban South: A History

Author: Lawrence H. Larsen
ISBN: 9780813153452
Format: Paperback
$66.00

In this panoramic survey of urbanization in the American South from its beginnings in the colonial period through...  Read More >>

The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China

The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban...

Author: Luigi Tomba
ISBN: 9780801455209
Format: Book
$198.00

Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in Chinese...  Read More >>

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