Urban communities books

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Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok's Urban Poor

Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok's Urban Poor

Author: Tamaki Endo
ISBN: 9789971697822
Format: Paperback
$72.32

The informal economy in Bangkok, Thailand, offers upward mobility but is fraught with risk. For members of the urban...  Read More >>

Neighborhood and Life Chances

Neighborhood and Life Chances

Author: Harriet Newburger ,  Dr Eugenie L Birch
ISBN: 9781283897556
Format: Undefined
$76.43

Neighborhood and Life Chances brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to demonstrate that place...  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: 9780807755198
Format: Hardback
$94.00

Big cities have mostly failed in their efforts to reform public schools. This book shows why - and offers a framework...  Read More >>

Organic Gardening the Beginner's Guide: How to Start Your Own Natural & Healthy Garden

Organic Gardening the Beginner's Guide: How to Start...

Author: Dr John Stone
ISBN: 9781499269635
Format: Paperback
$14.49

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Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and Towns

Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs,...

Author: Daniel J. (Joseph) Monti ,  Michael Ian Borer
ISBN: 9781412987424
Format: Paperback
$198.00

An undergraduate exploration of urban sociology, giving balanced treatment to both the process by which cities are...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South

The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South...

Author: Susan Parnell ,  Sophie Oldfield
ISBN: 9780415818650
Format: Hardback
$494.00

The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the...  Read More >>

A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne...

Author: Robyn Annear
ISBN: 9781863956505
Format: Paperback
$24.99

'Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not...  Read More >>

Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne

Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne

Author: Robyn Annear
ISBN: 9781863956550
Format: Paperback
$24.99

'Just a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck's, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called...  Read More >>

Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

Author: Rana Dasgupta
ISBN: 9781922079312
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The transformation of Delhi into a twenty-first century metropolis is an intoxicating, at times terrifying story...  Read More >>

Organic Gardening The Beginner's Guide: How To Start Your Own Natural & Healthy Garden

Organic Gardening The Beginner's Guide: How To Start...

Author: Dr John Stone
ISBN: 9781499240023
Format: Paperback
$17.13

So you've never gardened, but you want to eat organic produce. Well, this is the book for you! Improve your health...  Read More >>

Social Vulnerability in European Cities: The Role of Local Welfare in Times of Crisis

Social Vulnerability in European Cities: The Role of...

Author: C. Ranci ,  T. Brandsen
ISBN: 9781137346919
Format: Hardback
$209.95

What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and...  Read More >>

Transforming Chinese Cities

Transforming Chinese Cities

Author: Mark Wang (University of Melbourne, Australia) ,  Pookong Kee (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415636650
Format: Hardback
$326.00

"The urbanisation of China over the last three decades has been a hugely significant development, both for China’s...  Read More >>

Power Politics

Power Politics

Author: Karen Brodkin
ISBN: 9781283543446
Format: Electronic book text
$190.08

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Canadian City: Essays in Urban and Social History

Canadian City: Essays in Urban and Social History

Author: Gilbert Stelter
ISBN: 9781283529440
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and...  Read More >>

New Geography

New Geography

Author: Joel Kotkin
ISBN: 9781299102910
Format: Electronic book text
$102.56

In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The...  Read More >>

Creating Vibrant Communities

Creating Vibrant Communities

Author: Paul Born
ISBN: 9781282876408
Format: Electronic book text
$47.49

In Canada, poverty reduction is no longer a wouldn't it be nice dream discussed after yet another failure to make...  Read More >>

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change...

Author: Carl Abbott (Portland State University)
ISBN: 9781283635295
Format: Undefined
$94.88

Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of...  Read More >>

America's Top-Rated Cities

America's Top-Rated Cities

Author: David Garoogian
ISBN: 9781280577086
Format: Electronic book text
$826.32

America s Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one...  Read More >>

Urban Ecology

Urban Ecology

Author: Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation Department of Animal and Plant Sciences Kevin J Gaston (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781283528337
Format: Undefined
$514.80

This is the urban century in which, for the first time, the majority of people live in towns and cities. Understanding...  Read More >>

Freiheit Sicherheit (Straf)Recht: Beitrage Eines Humboldt-Kollegs

Freiheit Sicherheit (Straf)Recht: Beitrage Eines Humboldt-Kollegs...

Author: Krisztina Karsai ,  Teleki L Aszl O Alap Itv Any
ISBN: 9781280992865
Format: Electronic book text
$117.30

Steht die Suche nach Sicherheit in Europa in einem antagonistischen Verhaltnis zur Bewahrung der Freiheitsrechte?...  Read More >>

Accumulation by Dispossession

Accumulation by Dispossession

Author: Swapna Banerjee-Guha
ISBN: 9781282839618
Format: Electronic book text
$210.94

The contemporary regime of globalisation and neoliberalism is creating a far-reaching impact on different scales...  Read More >>

Contours of Culture

Contours of Culture

Author:
ISBN: 9781282705906
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

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Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978

Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism...

Author: Jenna M. Loyd ,  Jenna M Loyd
ISBN: 9780816676507
Format: Hardback
$75.93

Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in...  Read More >>

A contre-courant- Gegen den Strom: R�sistances souterraines � l'autorit� et construction de contrecultures dans les pays germanophones au XXe si�cle

A contre-courant- Gegen den Strom: R�sistances souterraines...

Author: Michel Grunewald ,  C�cilia Fernandez
ISBN: 9783034314930
Format: Paperback
$200.53

Terres de haute technologie, les pays germanophones sont �galement c�l�bres pour leurs ph�nom�nes de r�action contre...  Read More >>

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