Urban communities books

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Ventilating Cities: Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living

Ventilating Cities: Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and...

Author: Shinsuke Kato ,  Kyosuke Hiyama
ISBN: 9789400798465
Format: Paperback
$258.72

legal regulations for urban ventilation and new criteria for assessing the local wind environment.Keywords: urban...  Read More >>

Companion to Urban Design

Companion to Urban Design

Author: Tridib Banerjee ,  Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
ISBN: 9781138776548
Format: Paperback
$183.00

Urban design interfaces with many aspects of contemporary public policy - multiculturalism, economic development,...  Read More >>

Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 10th Urban Environment Symposium

Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 10th Urban Environment...

Author: Sébastien Rauch ,  Gregory M. Morrison
ISBN: 9789400799905
Format: Paperback
$336.35

The 10th Urban Environment Symposium (10UES) was held on 9–11 June 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The UES series is...  Read More >>

Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City

Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City

Author: Filip De Boeck ,  Marie-Francoise Plissart
ISBN: 9789058679673
Format: Paperback
$100.91

In this internationally acclaimed book, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Francoise Plissart...  Read More >>

Medieval Urban Literacy

Medieval Urban Literacy

Author: Marco Mostert ,  Anna Adamska
ISBN: 9782503549590
Format: Hardback
$364.32

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Medieval Urban Literacy

Medieval Urban Literacy

Author: Marco Mostert ,  Anna Adamska
ISBN: 9782503549606
Format: Hardback
$219.94

In medieval towns, examples of personal writing appear more prevalent than in non-urban spaces. Certain urban milieus...  Read More >>

Deutsche Und Polnische Migrationserfahrungen: Vergangenheit Und Gegenwart

Deutsche Und Polnische Migrationserfahrungen: Vergangenheit...

Author: Dorota Praszalowicz
ISBN: 9781306556439
Format: Electronic book text
$611.24

Der Band schildert Geschichte und Gegenwart der deutsch-polnischen Be ziehungen aus der Perspektive der gemeinsamen...  Read More >>

Community Lost: The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina

Community Lost: The State, Civil Society, and Displaced...

Author: Ronald J. Angel (University of Texas, Austin) ,  Holly Bell (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9780521176163
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane...  Read More >>

Extraordinary Cities: Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems and City/State Relations

Extraordinary Cities: Millennia of Moral Syndromes,...

Author: Peter J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781781954812
Format: Paperback
$115.90

Accepting that cities are extraordinary, this book provides an original city-centred narrative of human creativity,...  Read More >>

Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem

Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem...

Author: Peter Preston ,  Paul Simpson-Housley
ISBN: 9780415756372
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Arguing that classic geographical descriptions of the city fail to accomodate the crucial aspect of human life,...  Read More >>

Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City

Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and...

Author: Elizabeth M. Aranda ,  Sallie Hughes
ISBN: 9781626370418
Format: Hardback
$63.39

With more than a million immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, Miami, Florida, boasts the highest proportion...  Read More >>

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos (Routledge Revivals): Foundation Myths of a Roman City

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos (Routledge Revivals):...

Author: Guy Maclean Rogers
ISBN: 9780415740241
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical...  Read More >>

The Ambiguous Multiplicities: Materials, Episteme and Politics of Cluttered Social Formations

The Ambiguous Multiplicities: Materials, Episteme and...

Author: A. Mubi Brighenti
ISBN: 9781137384980
Format: Hardback
$133.95

This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside...  Read More >>

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with...

Author: Robin Nagle
ISBN: 9780374534271
Format: Paperback
$42.24

"One woman's journey inside New York City's grittiest--and most important--uniformed workforce. New York City produces...  Read More >>

The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929

The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929

Author: Christopher Robert Reed
ISBN: 9780252080104
Format: Paperback
$69.99

During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a ""black metropolis."" This book...  Read More >>

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

Author: Jane Addams
ISBN: 9781497367807
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City

Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City

Author: Arijit Sen ,  Lisa Silverman
ISBN: 9780253011435
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City

Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City

Author: Arijit Sen ,  Lisa Silverman
ISBN: 9780253011428
Format: Hardback
$128.95

Contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both...  Read More >>

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience...

Author: Heléna Tóth ,  Katrina Gulliver
ISBN: 9781409439592
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines...  Read More >>

A Morte do Homo Sapiens: A acao Irracional Como valor Social

A Morte do Homo Sapiens: A acao Irracional Como valor...

Author: Cleberson Eduardo Da Costa
ISBN: 9781497336247
Format: Paperback
$21.14

"Partindo-se dos conceitos de ""Ação Social"" em Max Weber, Durkheim e outros, apresentaremos, nesta obra, axiomas...  Read More >>

Living and Dying in Brick City: Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R.

Living and Dying in Brick City: Stories from the Front...

Author: Sampson Davis ,  Lisa Frazier Page
ISBN: 9780812982343
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"A follow-up to the bestselling book The Pact, Living and Dying in Brick City is Dr. Sampson Davis's story of his...  Read More >>

Zombies!: According to Bubba

Zombies!: According to Bubba

Author: Vernon Gillen
ISBN: 9781496172600
Format: Paperback
$18.48

After writing my third novel in the Texas Under Siege series subtitled; The Necro Mortosis Virus, I realized that...  Read More >>

Zombies: According to Bubba (Large Print)

Zombies: According to Bubba (Large Print)

Author: Vernon Gillen
ISBN: 9781496190512
Format: Paperback
$18.48

After writing my third novel in the Texas Under Siege series subtitled; The Necro Mortosis Virus, I realized that...  Read More >>

Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Changes

Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe: A...

Author: Mario Reimer ,  Panagiotis Getimis (Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Athens, Greece.)
ISBN: 9780415727242
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe is an overview of converging, diverging, and changing spatial planning...  Read More >>

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