Urban communities books

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Community Matters: Service-Learning in Engaged Design and Planning

Community Matters: Service-Learning in Engaged Design...

Author: Mallika Bose (Penn State University, USA) ,  Paula Horrigan (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415723893
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Shows how and why engaged research and participatory learning methods should be adpoted in design and planning education...  Read More >>

Building Resilient Urban Communities

Building Resilient Urban Communities

Author: Jonas Joerin ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9781783509058
Format: Hardback
$166.00

How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This key issue...  Read More >>

Governing Metropolitan Areas: Growth and Change in a Networked Age

Governing Metropolitan Areas: Growth and Change in a...

Author: David K. Hamilton (Texas Tech University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415899345
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and...  Read More >>

Barrio Democracy in Latin America: Participatory Decentralization and Community Activism in Montevideo

Barrio Democracy in Latin America: Participatory Decentralization...

Author: Eduardo Canel (Associate Professor/ Director, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780271037332
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Reconstructs the experience of participatory urban governance in three impoverished communities in Montevideo, Uruguay....  Read More >>

Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation

Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki,...

Author: Kazuyo Tsuchiya ,  Kazuyo Tsuchiya
ISBN: 9780816681129
Format: Paperback
$44.95

In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates...  Read More >>

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore,...

Author: Robert Gioielli
ISBN: 9781439904657
Format: Hardback
$172.92

Focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial...  Read More >>

More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing

More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco...

Author: Amy L. Howard
ISBN: 9780816665822
Format: Paperback
$49.95

By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic...  Read More >>

A Chance to Win: An Ex-Con, a Little League Team, and the Quest to Redeem an American City

A Chance to Win: An Ex-Con, a Little League Team, and...

Author: Jonathan Schuppe
ISBN: 9781250050090
Format: Paperback
$42.24

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, revealing the...  Read More >>

Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design

Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview...

Author: Juval Portugali ,  Han Meyer
ISBN: 9783642446597
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical evolution of knowledge, desires and technology. This...  Read More >>

Hearts and Hands, Second Edition: Creating Community in Violent Times

Hearts and Hands, Second Edition: Creating Community...

Author: Luis Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781609805531
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by 30 years of experience with gangs in...  Read More >>

Buck: A Memoir

Buck: A Memoir

Author: M.K. Asante
ISBN: 9780812983623
Format: Paperback
$50.16

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Live Above the Hype: A Hip Hop Life Skills Workbook (Student Edition)

Live Above the Hype: A Hip Hop Life Skills Workbook...

Author: K-Rahn ,  Dr Michael Eric Dyson
ISBN: 9780991638208
Format: Paperback
$44.75

View The Book Trailer Here: http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmnYM26ylI Analyzing the values in Hip Hop street culture...  Read More >>

Live Above the Hype: A Hip Hop Life Skills Workbook Manual (Teacher/Parent Edition)

Live Above the Hype: A Hip Hop Life Skills Workbook...

Author: K-Rahn ,  Dr Michael Eric Dyson
ISBN: 9780991638215
Format: Paperback
$105.47

View Book Trailer Here: http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmnYM26ylI Analyzing Hip Hop culture to promote character...  Read More >>

Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou

Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development...

Author: Ola Söderström (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781118632802
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations...  Read More >>

Retail and Commercial Planning (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

Retail and Commercial Planning (RLE Retailing and Distribution)...

Author: Ross Davies
ISBN: 9780415754309
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Changes in the philosophy of planning and the political influences behind it have led to an increasingly ambivalent...  Read More >>

Retail Geography (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

Retail Geography (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

Author: John Dawson
ISBN: 9780415754316
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Studies of the organisation and location of retailing activity have played a central role in the emergence of urban...  Read More >>

Marketing Geography (RLE Retailing and Distribution): With special reference to retailing

Marketing Geography (RLE Retailing and Distribution):...

Author: Ross Davies
ISBN: 9780415754293
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou

Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development...

Author: Ola Söderström (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781118632819
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations...  Read More >>

Retail and Marketing Channels (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

Retail and Marketing Channels (RLE Retailing and Distribution)...

Author: Srinivas Reddy (Singapore Management University) ,  Luca Pellegrini (Università Iulm, Italy)
ISBN: 9780415754330
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Retailer’s buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration....  Read More >>

Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban

Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban

Author: Michael Darroch ,  Janine Marchessault
ISBN: 9780773543027
Format: Hardback
$266.51

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The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City: Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York

The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the...

Author: Laam Hae (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415754583
Format: Paperback
$114.00

In this book, Hae explores how nightlife in NYC, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has...  Read More >>

Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions

Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion...

Author: Neil Bradford ,  Allison Bramwell
ISBN: 9781442626270
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground...  Read More >>

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