Urban communities books

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Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location

Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location...

Author: Hannah Jones (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Emma Jackson (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138000643
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Brings together work from cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholars researching home, migration and belonging, using...  Read More >>

Understanding the Chinese City

Understanding the Chinese City

Author: Li Shiqiao
ISBN: 9781446208830
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This book teaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese...  Read More >>

A Companion to Urban Anthropology

A Companion to Urban Anthropology

Author: Donald M. Nonini (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
ISBN: 9781444330106
Format: Hardback
$296.95

A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents a collection of original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology...  Read More >>

Geographies of Urban Sound

Geographies of Urban Sound

Author: Torsten Wissmann
ISBN: 9781409462194
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Human-Environmental Interactions in Cities: Challenges and Opportunities of Urban Land Use Planning and Green Infrastructure

Human-Environmental Interactions in Cities: Challenges...

Author: Nadja Kabisch ,  Neele Larondelle
ISBN: 9781443861595
Format: Undefined
$179.49

This book addresses international research communities concerned with conceptual, scientific, and design approaches...  Read More >>

The West African City: Urban Space and Models of Urban Planning

The West African City: Urban Space and Models of Urban...

Author: Jerome Chenal (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
ISBN: 9782940222827
Format: Hardback
$168.83

"Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis the cities of West Africa are no longer plannable, at least not...  Read More >>

Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American...

Author: Benjamin Ross
ISBN: 9780199360147
Format: Hardback
$61.95

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New Islamic Schools: Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan

New Islamic Schools: Tradition, Modernity, and Class...

Author: S. Riaz ,  S Riaz
ISBN: 9781349480005
Format: Paperback
$191.95

The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides...  Read More >>

Life after Lean on Me - Dissertation Research: "What happened to the REAL students after the movie ""Lean on Me""?"

Life after Lean on Me - Dissertation Research: "What...

Author: Dr Pinky Miller ,  Dr Pinky Miller
ISBN: 9781490948881
Format: Paperback
$55.31

My name is Dr. Pinky Miller and I am a former student of the real bullhorn and baseball bat toting icon from the...  Read More >>

Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan: A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Approach

Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean...

Author: David Rands
ISBN: 9780739173688
Format: Hardback
$246.00

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New Islamic Schools: Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan

New Islamic Schools: Tradition, Modernity, and Class...

Author: S. Riaz
ISBN: 9781137382467
Format: Hardback
$203.95

The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides...  Read More >>

A History of Future Cities

A History of Future Cities

Author: Daniel Brook
ISBN: 9780393348866
Format: Paperback
$47.95

"""[An] inspired tour of the post modern city…Invigorating."" —Mark Kingwell, Harper’s"  Read More >>

American City Politics

American City Politics

Author: Peter Madgwick
ISBN: 9780415759625
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First published in 1970, this book begins with an introductory outline of the structure of the city politics of...  Read More >>

The Rise of Urban America

The Rise of Urban America

Author: Constantine McLaughlin Green
ISBN: 9780415759649
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Deals with the rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s. This book traces...  Read More >>

Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location

Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location...

Author: Hannah Jones (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Emma Jackson (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138000650
Format: Paperback
$124.00

Brings together work from cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholars researching home, migration and belonging, using...  Read More >>

Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition: Theories and Case Studies

Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition:...

Author: Ipsita Chatterjee
ISBN: 9788132116608
Format: Hardback
$75.90

Provides a window into the global urban contradiction through the lens of a Third World city. This book develops...  Read More >>

The University and the City

The University and the City

Author: John Goddard ,  Paul Vallance
ISBN: 9781138798533
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are...  Read More >>

Los paisajes culturales de la ciudad de Toledo: los cigarrales: Dehesas, espacios irrigados, torres, cigarrales y trincheras

Los paisajes culturales de la ciudad de Toledo: los...

Author: Jesús Carrobles Santos ,  Jorge Morín de Pablos
ISBN: 9781407312750
Format: Paperback
$204.41

The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the...  Read More >>

Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA: Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments

Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA:...

Author: Raymond Charles Rauscher ,  Salim Momtaz
ISBN: 9783319057613
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New...  Read More >>

Urban Theory: A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century

Urban Theory: A critical introduction to power, cities...

Author: Alan Harding ,  Talja Blokland
ISBN: 9781446294512
Format: Hardback
$343.00

This interdisciplinary introduction to urban theory explains how the concepts that help us understand the contemporary...  Read More >>

Here for Good: Community Foundations and the Challenges of the 21st Century: Community Foundations and the Challenges of the 21st Century

Here for Good: Community Foundations and the Challenges...

Author: Terry Mazany ,  David C. Perry
ISBN: 9780765642561
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Community foundations bring together the resources of individuals, families, and businesses to support effective...  Read More >>

Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities

Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore...

Author: Ann Brooks ,  Lionel Wee
ISBN: 9781783082261
Format: Hardback
$115.00

'Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities' examines the fascinating intersection...  Read More >>

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