Urban communities books

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Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Author: Lucas Mann
ISBN: 9780307949752
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails...  Read More >>

Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940

Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American...

Author: Andrew Lees, Dr (Institute of Neurology University College London)
ISBN: 9781626549197
Format: Hardback
$74.91

This is a serious and valuable contribution to the vast literature of urbanism. -Journal of European Studies...  Read More >>

Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West

Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of...

Author: Judith Nies
ISBN: 9781568587486
Format: Hardback
$97.68

An award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the power struggle over the energy resources of the southwest,...  Read More >>

Shrinking Cities: A Global Perspective

Shrinking Cities: A Global Perspective

Author: Harry W. Richardson ,  Chang Woon Nam
ISBN: 9780415643962
Format: Paperback
$116.00

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much...  Read More >>

The Urban Ethnography Reader

The Urban Ethnography Reader

Author: Mitchell Duneier (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University) ,  Philip Kasinitz (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)
ISBN: 9780199743575
Format: Paperback
$158.95

The Urban Ethnography Reader assembles the very best of American ethnographic writing, from classic works to contemporary...  Read More >>

The Hallway Trilogy

The Hallway Trilogy

Author: Adam Rapp
ISBN: 9781559364164
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A harrowing trilogy from the OBIE Award-winning author of Red Light Winter.  Read More >>

Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education,...

Author: Jean Anyon
ISBN: 9780415635585
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Radical Possibilities examines the concrete effects of economic decision-making on the education sector, and argues...  Read More >>

Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature: Reformed Geographies

Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature:...

Author: C. Neculai
ISBN: 9781137340191
Format: Hardback
$174.95

Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban...  Read More >>

Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time

Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood,...

Author: Manny Diaz ,  Michael Bloomberg
ISBN: 9780812222944
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Former two-term mayor of Miami Manny Diaz shares lessons learned from governing one of America's most diverse and...  Read More >>

Shrinking Cities: A Global Perspective

Shrinking Cities: A Global Perspective

Author: Harry W. Richardson ,  Chang Woon Nam
ISBN: 9780415643955
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much...  Read More >>

Growing Up in East L.A.

Growing Up in East L.A.

Author: Tamara J Welter ,  Michael Longinow
ISBN: 9780983957218
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing

When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship...

Author: Roberta Gold
ISBN: 9780252038181
Format: Hardback
$124.00

For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. This title shows that...  Read More >>

Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema...

Author: George Melnyk
ISBN: 9781927356593
Format: Paperback
$67.25

For many years, Canadian cinema was dominated by the documentarytradition of the National Film Board, which tended...  Read More >>

O Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida e o Meio Ambiente Local

O Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida e o Meio Ambiente Local...

Author: Lucas Cardoso Balbino Michelle
ISBN: 9783639899917
Format: Paperback
$199.29

A população mundial, originalmente localizada na zona rural passou no século XX por mudanças expressivas que resultaram...  Read More >>

Miami Then and Now®

Miami Then and Now®

Author: Arva Moore Parks ,  A01 Carolyn
ISBN: 9781909815070
Format: Hardback
$38.79

Part of the 4-miliion-selling-trademark series from Anova Books - a vivid historical tour of Miami and its suburbs,...  Read More >>

Detroit: A Biography

Detroit: A Biography

Author: Scott Martelle
ISBN: 9781613748848
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Detroit: A Biography is about a city that rose because of the most American of traitsinnovation, entrepreneurship,...  Read More >>

Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town

Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town

Author: Rex J. Rowley
ISBN: 9780874179453
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A world-famous destination, as experienced by those who live there  Read More >>

Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban...

Author: Brodwyn Fischer ,  Bryan McCann
ISBN: 9780822355335
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity

Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity

Author: Erez Tzfadia (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) ,  Haim Yacobi (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
ISBN: 9781138788916
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book examines the issue of Israeli space and in particular looks at cities, suburbs, development towns and...  Read More >>

Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities

Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities

Author: Melissa Butcher (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) ,  Selvaraj Velayutham (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415665988
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This book seeks to document urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and...  Read More >>

Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban...

Author: Brodwyn Fischer ,  Bryan McCann
ISBN: 9780822355182
Format: Hardback
$284.99

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Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas: The F Street Wall and the Women Who Brought It Down

Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas: The...

Author: Robert J. McKee
ISBN: 9780739186770
Format: Hardback
$135.95

From 2008 to 2013, a group of African American women led a successful protest of a street closure in their community...  Read More >>

Die Bedeutung der UNESCO-Auszeichnung fur den Ort Lunenburg

Die Bedeutung der UNESCO-Auszeichnung fur den Ort Lunenburg...

Author: Lisann Kottnik
ISBN: 9783639627732
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Die Auszeichnung einer Statte zum Welterbe bringt Anerkennung und steigert ihr Image. Um von der Auszeichnung langfristig...  Read More >>

The Street: A Quintessential Social Public Space

The Street: A Quintessential Social Public Space

Author: Vikas Mehta
ISBN: 9780415737296
Format: Paperback
$131.00

Received the Environmental Design Research Association's 2014 Place Book Award Shortlisted for the UDG Francis...  Read More >>

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