Urban communities books

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The Invisible Minority: Urban Appalachians

The Invisible Minority: Urban Appalachians

Author: William W. Philliber ,  Clyde B. McCoy
ISBN: 9780813153957
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better...  Read More >>

The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968

The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South,...

Author: Christopher Silver ,  John V. Moeser
ISBN: 9780813156255
Format: Paperback
$66.00

A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning,...  Read More >>

Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence

Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End...

Author: Aquil Basheer ,  Christina Hoag
ISBN: 9781684422388
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"""Foreword by Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks""--Cover."  Read More >>

Renewing Cities

Renewing Cities

Author: Ross J. Gittell
ISBN: 9780691607184
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune

The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval...

Author: Carol Lansing
ISBN: 9780691604534
Format: Paperback
$72.99

In the 1290s a new guild-based Florentine government placed a group of noble families under severe legal restraints,...  Read More >>

The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest

The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural...

Author: Péter Hanák
ISBN: 9780691606798
Format: Paperback
$67.99

A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly...  Read More >>

The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community

The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American...

Author: Marc J Dunkelman ,  Tim Andres Pabon
ISBN: 9798200618781
Format: Audio
$79.15

A sweeping new look at the unheralded transformation that is eroding the foundations of American exceptionalism....  Read More >>

The Vanishing Neighbor Lib/E: The Transformation of American Community

The Vanishing Neighbor Lib/E: The Transformation of...

Author: Marc J Dunkelman ,  Tim Andres Pabon
ISBN: 9798200618774
Format: Audio
$79.15

A sweeping new look at the unheralded transformation that is eroding the foundations of American exceptionalism....  Read More >>

The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community

The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American...

Author: Marc J Dunkelman ,  Tim Andres Pabon
ISBN: 9798200618798
Format: Audio
$79.15

A sweeping new look at the unheralded transformation that is eroding the foundations of American exceptionalism....  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: 9780415644723
Format: Hardback
$347.00

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

Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance

Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market...

Author: Kristen L. Buras (Georgia State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415660501
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space, Kristen Buras maps federal, state, and local policy networks to show...  Read More >>

The Difference that Makes The Difference the new edition: 7 Keys to Success

The Difference that Makes The Difference the new edition:...

Author: John William Hudson II
ISBN: 9781500822965
Format: Paperback
$31.68

The Powerful and Prosperous potential that you have to success in life is within your S.W.A.G.G.E.R. Many experts...  Read More >>

El espacio urbano y social de la ciudad de San Luis Potosí

El espacio urbano y social de la ciudad de San Luis...

Author: Ramón Moreno Carlos
ISBN: 9783659008467
Format: Paperback
$150.13

Algunos años atrás Henri Lefebvre describió a la ciudad como el trazado de la sociedad sobre el suelo, por ello...  Read More >>

Khanoy: Evolyutsiya Torgovykh Otnosheniy I Gorodskogo Prostranstva

Khanoy: Evolyutsiya Torgovykh Otnosheniy I Gorodskogo...

Author: Vu Tkhi Nyusha
ISBN: 9783659563973
Format: Paperback
$156.53

Nevozmozhno predstavit' sebe gorod bez takogo yavleniya kak torgovlya, ona vliyaet na vse sfery zhizni obshchestva...  Read More >>

The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965

The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and...

Author: Robert B Fairbanks
ISBN: 9781439911150
Format: Hardback
$236.28

Provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas,...  Read More >>

The Evolution of American Urban Society

The Evolution of American Urban Society

Author: Howard P. Chudacoff ,  Judith Smith
ISBN: 9780133867886
Format: Paperback
$206.00

The Evolution of American Urban History blends historical perspectives on society, economics, politics, and policy,...  Read More >>

The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility: Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics

The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility:...

Author: Alan Walks
ISBN: 9780415706155
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This volume provides a holistic and reflexive account of the role played by automobility in differentiating social,...  Read More >>

Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap: Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City

Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap: Overcoming...

Author: Pamela Lenton ,  Paul Mosley
ISBN: 9781138807570
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain,...  Read More >>

The Spiritual City: Theology, Spirituality, and the Urban

The Spiritual City: Theology, Spirituality, and the...

Author: Philip Sheldrake (Cambridge Theological Federation, UK and Oblate School of Theology, USA)
ISBN: 9781118855669
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A Spiritual City provides a broad examination of the meaning and importance of cities from a Christian perspective....  Read More >>

Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics: The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility: Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Dri

Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics:...

Author: Alan Walks
ISBN: 9781322034096
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does...  Read More >>

The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender...

Author: Benita Heiskanen (University of Turku, Finland)
ISBN: 9781138008878
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a...  Read More >>

Quality of Life and Public Management: Redefining Development in the Local Environment

Quality of Life and Public Management: Redefining Development...

Author: John Whitelegg
ISBN: 9780415628808
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Quality of Life and Public Management explores the possibility for a dramatic and significant improvement in quality...  Read More >>

Images of the American City

Images of the American City

Author: Anselm L. Strauss
ISBN: 9781412853828
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Originally published in 1961, Images of the American City examines how Americans dealt with the rapid shock of urbanization...  Read More >>

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