Urban communities books

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Manic Streets of Perth

Manic Streets of Perth

Author: Dave Franklin
ISBN: 9781393542001
Format: Paperback
$24.56

"Perth. It's thousands of miles from anywhere, it's got a rubbish Bell Tower and not enough of the laid-back locals...  Read More >>

The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Nick Wates (Nick Wates Associates, UK)
ISBN: 9780415658935
Format: Paperback
$79.99

First published in 1976, this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants’ groups, community associations,...  Read More >>

City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure...

Author: Carl Smith
ISBN: 9780226151595
Format: Paperback
$42.95

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic,...  Read More >>

Quartiersidentität im Grazer Jakominiviertel

Quartiersidentität im Grazer Jakominiviertel

Author: Marlies Bodinger ,  Kerstin Singer
ISBN: 9783639628739
Format: Paperback
$202.30

"Das Pilotprojekt ""Jakominiviertel"" zielt darauf ab, zwei Straßenzüge in der Grazer Innenstadt mit Hilfe stadtplanerischen...  Read More >>

The Community Planning Handbook: How people can shape their cities, towns & villages in any part of the world

The Community Planning Handbook: How people can shape...

Author: Nick Wates ,  Jeremy Brook
ISBN: 9781844074907
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Essential tool kit for professionals involved in shaping their local community environment.  Read More >>

The People, Place, and Space Reader

The People, Place, and Space Reader

Author: Jen Jack Gieseking (CUNY Graduate Center, USA) ,  William Mangold (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
ISBN: 9780415664967
Format: Hardback
$389.00

The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety...  Read More >>

One Game at a Time: How to Mix Sports and Politics (And Why it Matters so Much)

One Game at a Time: How to Mix Sports and Politics (And...

Author: Matt Hern
ISBN: 9781849351362
Format: Paperback
$34.19

For the love of sports! An unabashed intellectual explores the contemporary fascination with sports and their cultural...  Read More >>

The People, Place, and Space Reader

The People, Place, and Space Reader

Author: Jen Jack Gieseking (CUNY Graduate Center, USA) ,  William Mangold (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
ISBN: 9780415664974
Format: Paperback
$162.00

The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety...  Read More >>

Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City

Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism,...

Author: William W. Buzbee
ISBN: 9780801479441
Format: Paperback
$67.25

This informative narrative of environmental, political, and legal conflict describes what really happened during...  Read More >>

Beloved Educators: Women of Color Who Inspire Us

Beloved Educators: Women of Color Who Inspire Us

Author: Valarie W French ,  Marilyn C Maye
ISBN: 9781496154729
Format: Paperback
$31.55

What does it take to be an effective teacher? To answer this question we often look around us for role models. Beloved...  Read More >>

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for the Global City

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular...

Author: Sharon V Betcher (Vancouver School of Theology)
ISBN: 9780823260935
Format: Undefined
$316.80

"Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation...  Read More >>

The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence

The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence

Author: Yvonne Rydin (London School of Economics UK)
ISBN: 9781447312062
Format: Undefined
$224.40

"For the past fifty years, urban planning has revolved around the presumed necessity of perpetual growth and development....  Read More >>

Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro

Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro

Author: Bruno Carvalho (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781781381007
Format: Undefined
$263.87

During the 1990s Rio de Janeiro earned the epithet of 'divided city, ' an image underscored by the contrast between...  Read More >>

A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna

A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna

Author: Amitava Kumar
ISBN: 9780822357049
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City

Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism,...

Author: William W. Buzbee
ISBN: 9780801451904
Format: Hardback
$279.45

This informative narrative of environmental, political, and legal conflict describes what really happened during...  Read More >>

Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life...

Author: Karen Franck (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA) ,  Quentin Stevens (The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK RMIT University, Australia RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781299622494
Format: Electronic book text
$570.24

With over 100 illustrations and diverse international examples, experts in urban design discuss the theory and practice...  Read More >>

The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the...

Author: Eric Avila ,  Eric Avila
ISBN: 9780816680726
Format: Hardback
$198.00

When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying...  Read More >>

Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences

Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold...

Author: Fabio Vighi, Professor of Italian and Critical Theory, Cardiff University ,  Alexis Nuselovici
ISBN: 9780739188354
Format: Hardback
$137.95

"The term ""threshold"" captures the overlapping of inside and outside-well beyond the logic of inclusion and exclusion...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology and Urbanized Society

Urban Sociology and Urbanized Society

Author: J R Mellor
ISBN: 9781299479081
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

Focusing on urban sociology as practised in Britain, the author argues that it is a key element in the response...  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: 9780816689644
Format: Hardback
$116.43

Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2015 Sprio...  Read More >>

The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put...

Author: Liza Weinstein ,  Liza Weinstein
ISBN: 9780816683093
Format: Hardback
$75.93

The Dharavidistrict, best known from Slumdog Millionaire  Read More >>

Failing at School: Lessons for Redesigning Urban High Schools

Failing at School: Lessons for Redesigning Urban High...

Author: Camille A. Farrington
ISBN: 9780807755167
Format: Paperback
$108.11

About half of all incoming ninth graders in urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma....  Read More >>

Big-City School Reforms: Lessons From New York, Toronto, and London

Big-City School Reforms: Lessons From New York, Toronto,...

Author: Michael Fullan ,  Alan Boyle
ISBN: 9780807755181
Format: Paperback
$43.00

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