Urban communities books

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Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset...

Author: Tarry Hum
ISBN: 9781439910917
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Based on more than a decade of research, this book charts the evolution of Sunset Park - with a densely concentrated...  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: 9780765642554
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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

Viral Voyages: Tracing AIDS in Latin America

Viral Voyages: Tracing AIDS in Latin America

Author: L. Meruane ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9781137394989
Format: Hardback
$184.95

This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing...  Read More >>

Life after Lean on Me - The Dr. Pinky Miller Story

Life after Lean on Me - The Dr. Pinky Miller Story

Author: Dr Pinky Miller ,  Dr Pinky Miller
ISBN: 9781497482272
Format: Paperback
$44.75

"Dr. Pinky Miller is a former student of the real bullhorn- and baseball-bat-toting icon from the 1989 film Lean...  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: 9781446294529
Format: Paperback
$104.00

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

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset...

Author: Tarry Hum
ISBN: 9781439910900
Format: Hardback
$238.92

Based on more than a decade of research, this book charts the evolution of Sunset Park - with a densely concentrated...  Read More >>

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Author: Rana Dasgupta ,  Dana Hickox
ISBN: 9798200620746
Format: Audio
$105.55

In Capital, Commonwealth Prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion...  Read More >>

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Author: Rana Dasgupta ,  Dana Hickox
ISBN: 9798200620739
Format: Audio
$105.55

In Capital, Commonwealth Prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion...  Read More >>

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Author: Rana Dasgupta ,  Dana Hickox
ISBN: 9798200620722
Format: Audio
$105.55

In Capital, Commonwealth Prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion...  Read More >>

Understanding the Chinese City

Understanding the Chinese City

Author: Li Shiqiao
ISBN: 9781446208823
Format: Hardback
$327.00

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

Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy

Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy

Author: Elly Blue
ISBN: 9781306071369
Format: Electronic book text
$47.49

Making the case for adopting more sustainable modes of transportation, this engaging reference explores the economic...  Read More >>

The Urban Condition

The Urban Condition

Author: Brendan Gleeson (Melbourne University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415816120
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The Power of Cities in International Relations

The Power of Cities in International Relations

Author: Simon Curtis (University of East Anglia, UK.)
ISBN: 9780415728775
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Cities have become increasingly important to global politics, but have largely occupied a peripheral place in the...  Read More >>

Innovating in Urban Economies: Economic Transformation in Canadian City-Regions

Innovating in Urban Economies: Economic Transformation...

Author: David A. Wolfe
ISBN: 9781442646988
Format: Hardback
$170.00

With case studies examining cities of all sizes, from Toronto to Moncton, Innovating in Urban Economies analyzes...  Read More >>

Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists

Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from...

Author: Deepa Naik ,  Trenton Oldfield
ISBN: 9780956353955
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor

The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day...

Author: Vinit Mukhija (Professor, UCLA) ,  Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (Professor, UCLA School of PUblic Affairs)
ISBN: 9780262525787
Format: Paperback
$49.99

An examination of informal urban activities—including street vending, garage sales, and unpermitted housing—that...  Read More >>

Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and Assets

Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and...

Author: Mahyar Arefi (University of Cincinnati, United States)
ISBN: 9780415724364
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Place matters has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and urban design, geography,...  Read More >>

The Social Project: Housing Postwar France

The Social Project: Housing Postwar France

Author: Kenny Cupers ,  Kenny Cupers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780816689651
Format: Paperback
$62.95

In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century's greatest...  Read More >>

Was it Something I Said?: misadventures in suburbia

Was it Something I Said?: misadventures in suburbia...

Author: Ros Thomas
ISBN: 9781742585567
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Whether writing about her foiled attempt to seduce her husband, the homesick Irishman she found on the beach or...  Read More >>

Le Determinanti Psicosociali Della Protesta Contro Le Discariche

Le Determinanti Psicosociali Della Protesta Contro Le...

Author: Scafuto Francesca
ISBN: 9783639786118
Format: Paperback
$269.28

La contaminazione ambientale nella regione Campania, sembra produrre gia i suoi effetti nefasti sulla salute, ma...  Read More >>

This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South

This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity...

Author: Zandria F. Robinson
ISBN: 9781469614229
Format: Paperback
$99.00

"When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some...  Read More >>

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Author: Alice Goffman
ISBN: 9780226136714
Format: Hardback
$47.95

Over the years, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless...  Read More >>

Gärtnern für ein besseres Leben?

Gärtnern für ein besseres Leben?

Author: Jan Meuel
ISBN: 9783639631746
Format: Paperback
$93.80

In den letzten Jahren hat die Anzahl an Gemeinschaftsgärten in westlichen Großstädten stark zugenommen. Dabei bauen...  Read More >>

Detroit Resurgent

Detroit Resurgent

Author: Gilles Perrin ,  Nicole Ewenczyk
ISBN: 9781611861303
Format: Hardback
$44.00

Detroit is frequently viewed as a city where hope has been lost, government is totally dysfunctional, and the infrastructure...  Read More >>

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