Urban communities books

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Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial...

Author: Dorceta Taylor
ISBN: 9781479861781
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, this book examines the connections among residential...  Read More >>

Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World

Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World

Author: United Cities and Local Governments ,  David Satterthwaite
ISBN: 9781138780606
Format: Paperback
$124.00

UCLG’s Third Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) examines basic service provision and...  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: 9781118830512
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial...

Author: Dorceta Taylor
ISBN: 9781479852390
Format: Hardback
$171.00

Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, this book examines the connections among residential...  Read More >>

Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World

Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World

Author: United Cities and Local Governments ,  David Satterthwaite
ISBN: 9781138780590
Format: Hardback
$368.00

UCLG’s Third Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) examines basic service provision and...  Read More >>

Critical Spaces: Contemporary Perspectives in Urban, Spatial and Landscape Studies Volume 13

Critical Spaces: Contemporary Perspectives in Urban,...

Author: Alexandru Calcatinge
ISBN: 9783643904959
Format: Paperback
$158.27

This book relates spatial existence to the challenges arising from the critical times in which we are living and...  Read More >>

Washington 101: An Introduction to the Nation’s Capital

Washington 101: An Introduction to the Nation’s Capital...

Author: M. Green ,  J. Yarwood
ISBN: 9781137433381
Format: Hardback
$246.95

Washington 101 offers a layman's introduction to the richness and diversity of the nation's capital. An exploration...  Read More >>

Cities and Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism

Cities and Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary...

Author: Ronan Paddison ,  Eugene McCann
ISBN: 9781848601109
Format: Paperback
$96.00

A multi-disciplinary overview of key contemporary issues surrounding the excitement, contradictions, conflicts,...  Read More >>

Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City

Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future...

Author: Michael Dumper
ISBN: 9780231161961
Format: Hardback
$65.95

Jerusalem's formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in the city nor the underlying factors...  Read More >>

Cities and Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism

Cities and Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary...

Author: Ronan Paddison ,  Eugene McCann
ISBN: 9781848601093
Format: Hardback
$327.00

A multi-disciplinary overview of key contemporary issues surrounding the excitement, contradictions, conflicts,...  Read More >>

Urbanisation, unlimited: A Thematic Journey

Urbanisation, unlimited: A Thematic Journey

Author: Johannes Fiedler
ISBN: 9783319035864
Format: Hardback
$284.60

In a series of essays, the process of urbanisation – a human mega-trend acquiring unprecedented scale and speed...  Read More >>

Livable Cities of the Future: Proceedings of a Symposium Honoring the Legacy of George Bugliarello

Livable Cities of the Future: Proceedings of a Symposium...

Author: Mohammad Karamouz ,  Thomas F. Budinger
ISBN: 9780309300094
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Livable Cities of the Future, a symposium honoring the legacy of George Bugliarello, was hosted October 26, 2012,...  Read More >>

Blood and Tears: A Poetry Chapbook

Blood and Tears: A Poetry Chapbook

Author: Mellenee Miller Carpenter
ISBN: 9781500539863
Format: Paperback
$34.32

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Convention Center Follies: Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities

Convention Center Follies: Politics, Power, and Public...

Author: Heywood T. Sanders
ISBN: 9780812245776
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Written by one of the nation's foremost urban development experts, Convention Center Follies exposes the inner workings...  Read More >>

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

Uprooting Urban America: Multidisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Horace R. Hall ,  Amor Kohli
ISBN: 9781433122569
Format: Paperback
$153.52

Uprooting Urban America examines the social consequences of policies that change urban landscapes during the process...  Read More >>

Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development

Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development...

Author: Luisa Del Giudice
ISBN: 9780823257966
Format: Hardback
$323.95

This volume gathers groundbreaking critical essays on Sabato (Simon) Rodia's renowned Watts Towers (Los Angeles,...  Read More >>

Resilient Cities 2: Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011

Resilient Cities 2: Cities and Adaptation to Climate...

Author: Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
ISBN: 9789400797765
Format: Paperback
$517.47

Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second...  Read More >>

The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation

The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation...

Author: Nicolas Kenny
ISBN: 9781442615816
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the...  Read More >>

One Nation Inside the Bricks

One Nation Inside the Bricks

Author: Jake Manning
ISBN: 9781500494964
Format: Paperback
$34.29

In One Nation Inside The Bricks, Jake Manning takes you inside a world of violence filled with gang bangers and...  Read More >>

The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920–1960

The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American...

Author: Jennifer S. Light (Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9781421413846
Format: Paperback
$80.99

The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological...  Read More >>

The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation

The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation...

Author: Nicolas Kenny
ISBN: 9781442647749
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the...  Read More >>

Leben Mit Dem Tod in Den Reichssteadten Esslingen, Neordlingen Und Schweabisch Hall: Epidemien Und Deren Auswirkungen Vom Freuhen 15. Bis Zum Freuhen 17. Jahrhundert

Leben Mit Dem Tod in Den Reichssteadten Esslingen, Neordlingen...

Author: Patrick Sturm
ISBN: 9783799505383
Format: Hardback
$110.88

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteat Marburg, 2013, under the title: Leben mit dem...  Read More >>

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