Urban communities books

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The Political Economy of City Branding

The Political Economy of City Branding

Author: Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
ISBN: 9780415859455
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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India's Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity

India's Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption...

Author: Christiane Brosius
ISBN: 9781138020382
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This book is one of the first ethnographic studies to examine the complexities of lifestyles of the the upwardly...  Read More >>

Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies...

Author: Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais
ISBN: 9781443853552
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Henri Lefebvre is undoubtedly one of the most influential thinkers in the field of urban space and its organization;...  Read More >>

Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism...

Author: Tom Verebes (University of Hong Kong, China)
ISBN: 9780415534796
Format: Hardback
$368.00

The first book to advocate using computational design to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, or...  Read More >>

Solid Waste Planning in Metropolitan Areas

Solid Waste Planning in Metropolitan Areas

Author: Michael Greenberg
ISBN: 9780878556175
Format: Paperback
$26.40

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Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, Second Edition: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010

Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, Second Edition:...

Author: Kevin Fox Gotham
ISBN: 9781438449425
Format: Paperback
$47.48

Updated second edition examining how the real estate industry and federal housing policy have facilitated the development...  Read More >>

Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices

Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices...

Author: Eveline Durr ,  Rivke Jaffe
ISBN: 9781782385080
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Re-examining Mary Douglas' work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of...  Read More >>

Urbaner Lebens- Und Konsumstil

Urbaner Lebens- Und Konsumstil

Author: Gerhard Droesser ,  Stephan Wirz
ISBN: 9783290200848
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Philadelphia Mural Arts @ 30

Philadelphia Mural Arts @ 30

Author: Jane Golden ,  David Updike
ISBN: 9781439911310
Format: Paperback
$95.04

The Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia began in 1984 as a summer youth program with modest support from city government....  Read More >>

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

Cities in Relations – Trajectories of Urban Development...

Author: O Söderström
ISBN: 9781118632758
Format: Digital
$237.60

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

Kano: Environment, Society and Development

Kano: Environment, Society and Development

Author: A I Tanko ,  S B Momale
ISBN: 9781909112391
Format: Paperback
$87.98

Kano: Environment, Society and Development is a collection of research works on Kano and its environs. Though largely...  Read More >>

The Color Bind: Talking (and Not Talking) about Race at Work

The Color Bind: Talking (and Not Talking) about Race...

Author: Erica Gabrielle Foldy (Center for Gender in Organizations Simmons School of Management) ,  Tamara R Buckley
ISBN: 9780871544728
Format: Paperback
$125.40

"Since the 1960s, the dominant model for fostering diversity and inclusion in the United States has been the ""color...  Read More >>

Understanding Urban Poverty in India: Experiences from Mumbai

Understanding Urban Poverty in India: Experiences from...

Author: Olivier Brito ,  Aditya Singh
ISBN: 9788131606223
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Over the past 20 years, researchers focusing on poverty have acknowledged the need for more comprehensive approaches...  Read More >>

Chattanooga, 1865-1900: A City Set Down in Dixie

Chattanooga, 1865-1900: A City Set Down in Dixie

Author: Tim Ezzell
ISBN: 9781621900030
Format: Hardback
$155.76

After the Civil War, the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, forged a different path than most southern urban centers....  Read More >>

Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics of Squatter Settlement

Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics of Squatter...

Author: Charles J. Fortin
ISBN: 9781845196264
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Control and use of public lands have functioned as instruments of the state to pursue political projects in coalition...  Read More >>

Segmented Cities?: How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and Nationalist Politics

Segmented Cities?: How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and...

Author: Kristin R. Good ,  Luc Turgeon
ISBN: 9780774825832
Format: Hardback
$212.18

This book examines how urbanization and pluralization are shaping the world’s cities and what can be done to encourage...  Read More >>

Kano: Environment, Society and Development (Hb)

Kano: Environment, Society and Development (Hb)

Author: A I Tanko ,  S B Momale
ISBN: 9781909112407
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Kano: Environment, Society and Development is a collection of research works on Kano and its environs. Though largely...  Read More >>

Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy: Seaports, Airports, Brainports

Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy: Seaports, Airports,...

Author: Ben Derudder ,  Sven Conventz
ISBN: 9781409445913
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural...  Read More >>

The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam

The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle...

Author: Van Nguyen-Marshall ,  Lisa B. Welch Drummond
ISBN: 9789400799493
Format: Paperback
$284.60

From the leisure pursuits of the colonial middle class to the impact of the new urban rich on landscape of the countryside,...  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: 9780415727235
Format: Hardback
$378.00

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

Quartiersforschung: Zwischen Theorie und Praxis

Quartiersforschung: Zwischen Theorie und Praxis

Author: Olaf Schnur
ISBN: 9783531199627
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Wohnviertel, Stadtquartiere, Kieze: Für BewohnerInnen sind sie nicht mehr und nicht weniger als die lokale Verankerung...  Read More >>

Housing East Asia: Socioeconomic and Demographic Challenges

Housing East Asia: Socioeconomic and Demographic Challenges...

Author: J. Doling ,  R. Ronald
ISBN: 9780230358584
Format: Hardback
$199.95

Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar...  Read More >>

The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City

The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising...

Author: Yeoh Seng Guan (Monash University, Malaysia)
ISBN: 9780415730860
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in the last two or three decades...  Read More >>

Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation

Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics...

Author: Jill Grant
ISBN: 9781442615441
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Seeking Talent for Creative Cities represents a rigorously empirical test of popular wisdom on the true relationship...  Read More >>

Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life

Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life

Author: Molly Andrews (Professor of Political Psychology, Professor of Political Psychology, University of East London)
ISBN: 9780199812394
Format: Hardback
$82.95

Combining scholarship with personal experience, Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life uses examples ranging from...  Read More >>

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