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Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City...

Author: Laurent Gayer
ISBN: 9781849043113
Format: Paperback
$59.95

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Apropriação de estrutura de oportunidades em áreas urbanas pobres

Apropriação de estrutura de oportunidades em áreas urbanas...

Author: Amoni Fernando Antonio
ISBN: 9783639613940
Format: Paperback
$136.57

Pretendeu-se com este trabalho explicar o papel do capital social na apropriação de estruturas de oportunidades,...  Read More >>

Afrocentric Education: And Its Importance In African American Children And Youth Development and Academic Excellence

Afrocentric Education: And Its Importance In African...

Author: Cynthia Diana Cornelius
ISBN: 9781500427856
Format: Paperback
$52.80

This book consists of a comprehensive analysis of Afrocentricity (Afrocentric) and African Centered Education and...  Read More >>

Anglo-American Crossroads: Urban Planning and Research in Britain, 1940-2010

Anglo-American Crossroads: Urban Planning and Research...

Author: Mark Clapson ,  Mark Clapson
ISBN: 9781472575326
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Offers a critical and original evaluation of American influences on urban reconstruction and regeneration in post-war...  Read More >>

Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City

Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City

Author: Isabella Clough Marinaro ,  Bjørn Thomassen
ISBN: 9780253012883
Format: Hardback
$156.95

Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This book examines the ""real city""...  Read More >>

Der demokratische Mythos Porto Alegre: Widersprüche und Wirklichkeit eines partizipativen „Planungsmodells“

Der demokratische Mythos Porto Alegre: Widersprüche...

Author: Rogerio Rodrigues Mororó
ISBN: 9783658058883
Format: Paperback
$129.35

Im Mainstream der Beteiligungsforschung fungiert das brasilianische Porto Alegre als ein gelungenes Modell partizipativer...  Read More >>

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime...

Author: Barbara Pezzotti
ISBN: 9781611477344
Format: Paperback
$123.00

An analysis of the relationship between detective fiction and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination...  Read More >>

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972

Author: Eric C. Han
ISBN: 9780674491984
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from...  Read More >>

Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics of Squatter Settlement

Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics of Squatter...

Author: Charles J. Fortin
ISBN: 9781845196868
Format: Paperback
$84.09

Control and use of public lands have functioned as instruments of the state to pursue political projects in coalition...  Read More >>

Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010

Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi,...

Author: Danielle Labbé
ISBN: 9780774826686
Format: Paperback
$67.25

An engaging study of the rapid urbanization of a former village subsumed by the expanding city of Hanoi.  Read More >>

To Right Historical Wrongs: Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada

To Right Historical Wrongs: Race, Gender, and Sentencing...

Author: Carmela Murdocca
ISBN: 9780774824989
Format: Paperback
$72.42

A bold questioning of culture-based reparative justice initiatives – the political culture that inspired them and...  Read More >>

Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City...

Author: Laurent Gayer
ISBN: 9780199354443
Format: Hardback
$99.00

"Argues that within the seemingly chaotic malaise of Karachi's politics, a form of ""manageable violence"" exists,...  Read More >>

College Now!: What Needs to Be Done to Give Urban Students a Real Path to Success

College Now!: What Needs to Be Done to Give Urban Students...

Author: Scott Mendelsberg
ISBN: 9780807755433
Format: Paperback
$76.43

This remarkable, first-hand account reveals the impediments and challenges to educating inner-city secondary students...  Read More >>

Islamic Urban Studies: Historical Review and Perspectives

Islamic Urban Studies: Historical Review and Perspectives...

Author: Masashi Haneda
ISBN: 9780415760102
Format: Paperback
$67.99

The term 'Islamic cities' has been used to refer to cities of the Islamic world, centring on the Middle East. Academic...  Read More >>

College Now!: What Needs to Be Done to Give Urban Students a Real Path to Success

College Now!: What Needs to Be Done to Give Urban Students...

Author: Scott Mendelsberg
ISBN: 9780807755631
Format: Hardback
$168.96

This remarkable, first-hand account reveals the impediments and challenges to educating inner-city secondary students...  Read More >>

A History of Water: Series III, Volume 1: Water and Urbanization

A History of Water: Series III, Volume 1: Water and...

Author: Terje Tvedt (University of Bergen, Norway) ,  Terje Oestigaard
ISBN: 9781780764474
Format: Hardback
$260.00

With empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world the three volumes together represent one of the...  Read More >>

Learning Within These Walls: An Inner - City Teacher's Journal

Learning Within These Walls: An Inner - City Teacher's...

Author: Jackie P Cleveland
ISBN: 9781495292040
Format: Paperback
$25.85

In this riveting journal, a retired public school teacher candidly documents the day-to-day workings of two inner-city...  Read More >>

Sociable Cities: The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

Sociable Cities: The 21st-Century Reinvention of the...

Author: Peter Hall (University College London, UK) ,  Colin Ward
ISBN: 9780415736732
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Addresses the relevance of Howard's ideas of sustainable, livable communities in relation to today's urban plannin...  Read More >>

CCTV: A Technology Under the Radar?

CCTV: A Technology Under the Radar?

Author: Inga Kroener
ISBN: 9781409423454
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Central state and non-covert surveillance began in earnest at the start of the twentieth century. By the start of...  Read More >>

Architectural Tourism: Building for Urban Travel Destinations

Architectural Tourism: Building for Urban Travel Destinations...

Author: Jan Specht
ISBN: 9783658060237
Format: Paperback
$168.16

Since the early times of travelling architecture does constitute an important force of attraction and a vital element...  Read More >>

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