Urban communities books

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A People's History of the New Boston

A People's History of the New Boston

Author: Jim Vrabel
ISBN: 9781625340764
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Although Boston today is a vibrant and thriving city, it was anything but that in the years following World War...  Read More >>

The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put...

Author: Liza Weinstein ,  Liza Weinstein
ISBN: 9780816683109
Format: Paperback
$44.95

The Dharavidistrict, best known from Slumdog Millionaire  Read More >>

On South Bank: The Production of Public Space

On South Bank: The Production of Public Space

Author: Alasdair J.H. Jones ,  Dr. Mark Boyle
ISBN: 9781409440031
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Through an in-depth ethnographic examination of London's 'South Bank', this book explores the value widely presupposed...  Read More >>

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder...

Author: Jason L. Riley ,  J. D. Jackson
ISBN: 9781501209581
Format: Audio
$52.77

This book explains why so many efforts by liberals to help the black underclass not only fail but often harm the...  Read More >>

Displaced by Disaster: Recovery and Resilience in a Globalizing World

Displaced by Disaster: Recovery and Resilience in a...

Author: Ann-Margaret Esnard (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA) ,  Alka Sapat (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415856041
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Displaced by Disaster addresses climate and disaster displacement from a planning and policy perspective informed...  Read More >>

The Tenants' Movement: Resident involvement, community action and the contentious politics of housing

The Tenants' Movement: Resident involvement, community...

Author: Quintin Bradley
ISBN: 9780415720250
Format: Paperback
$116.00

The Tenants' Movement is both a history of tenant organization and mobilization, and a guide to understanding how...  Read More >>

Globalization and Urbanization: The Global Urban Ecosystem

Globalization and Urbanization: The Global Urban Ecosystem...

Author: James H. Spencer
ISBN: 9781442214750
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This innovative book sees contemporary urban settlement as the new human ecosystems defining people's lives across...  Read More >>

The Tenants' Movement: Resident involvement, community action and the contentious politics of housing

The Tenants' Movement: Resident involvement, community...

Author: Quintin Bradley
ISBN: 9780415720267
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Prisoners on Criminology: Convict Life Stories and Crime Prevention

Prisoners on Criminology: Convict Life Stories and Crime...

Author: William S. Tregea
ISBN: 9780739145883
Format: Paperback
$158.00

William S. Tregea makes prisoners’ stories come alive with eighty prisoner essays integrated in informational chapters...  Read More >>

Displaced by Disaster: Recovery and Resilience in a Globalizing World

Displaced by Disaster: Recovery and Resilience in a...

Author: Ann-Margaret Esnard (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA) ,  Alka Sapat (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415856034
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Displaced by Disaster addresses climate and disaster displacement from a planning and policy perspective informed...  Read More >>

Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor

Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor

Author: Eli Ginzberg
ISBN: 9780300209068
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Academic health centres (AHCs) played a key role in the USA's advances in medicine, but they have largely ignored...  Read More >>

Prisoners on Criminology: Convict Life Stories and Crime Prevention

Prisoners on Criminology: Convict Life Stories and Crime...

Author: William S. Tregea
ISBN: 9780739145876
Format: Hardback
$333.00

William S. Tregea makes prisoners’ stories come alive with eighty prisoner essays integrated in informational chapters...  Read More >>

Villages in the City: A Guide to South China's Informal Settlements

Villages in the City: A Guide to South China's Informal...

Author: Stefan Al
ISBN: 9789888208234
Format: Paperback
$53.04

This book argues for the value of urban villages as places. To reveal their qualities, a series of drawings and...  Read More >>

Uprooting Urban America: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race, Class and Gentrification

Uprooting Urban America: Multidisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Horace R. Hall ,  Amor Kohli
ISBN: 9781433122576
Format: Hardback
$563.38

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Creativity in Peripheral Places: Redefining the Creative Industries

Creativity in Peripheral Places: Redefining the Creative...

Author: Chris Gibson
ISBN: 9781138798281
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Culture and the City: Creativity, Tourism, Leisure

Culture and the City: Creativity, Tourism, Leisure

Author: Deborah Stevenson ,  Amie Matthews (Western Sydney University)
ISBN: 9781138798373
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This edited collection will examine the way in which cities are imagined, experienced and shaped by those who reside...  Read More >>

Planning, Markets and Rural Housing

Planning, Markets and Rural Housing

Author: Nick Gallent (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138798366
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book is an analysis of the key forces affecting the affordability of rural homes in Britain and the changing...  Read More >>

Creating Smart-er Cities

Creating Smart-er Cities

Author: Mark Deakin (Napier University, Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781138798441
Format: Paperback
$58.99

This book draws upon the findings of recent research projects exploring the creativity of smart cities. It captures...  Read More >>

Informal Work in Developed Nations

Informal Work in Developed Nations

Author: Enrico Marcelli ,  Colin C. Williams (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781138804937
Format: Paperback
$114.00

The authors of this volume take the orthodox view of 'informal work' and dismantle it piece by piece, presenting...  Read More >>

Multiculturalism and the Arts in European Cities

Multiculturalism and the Arts in European Cities

Author: Marco Martiniello (University of Liège, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781138795525
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural...  Read More >>

Governing Health in Contemporary China

Governing Health in Contemporary China

Author: Yanzhong Huang
ISBN: 9781138815667
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This book examines the political and policy dynamics of health governance in post-Mao China, shedding much critical...  Read More >>

Classroom Management for New Urban Teachers K-8 and Special Education: Improve Student Behavior and Learning

Classroom Management for New Urban Teachers K-8 and...

Author: Denise Adrienne Johnson M Ed
ISBN: 9781500735722
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Young boys, especially urban inner-city African American black boys, are often classified special education because...  Read More >>

The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the...

Author: Eric Avila
ISBN: 9780816680733
Format: Paperback
$44.95

When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and devastating...  Read More >>

Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

Author: Henri Lefebvre ,  Łukasz Stanek
ISBN: 9780816677207
Format: Paperback
$44.95

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