Urban communities books

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New Money, Nice Town: How Capital Works in the New Urban Economy

New Money, Nice Town: How Capital Works in the New Urban...

Author: Leonard Nevarez (Vassar College, USA)
ISBN: 9781306342636
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

The economic restructuring that has gone on since the 1980s has produced a new economic space in which service and...  Read More >>

Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning: Integrating Human and Natural Systems

Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning: Integrating...

Author: Gary Austin (University of Idaho, USA)
ISBN: 9781306375672
Format: Electronic book text
$184.80

Green infrastructure integrates human and natural systems through a network of corridors and spaces in mixed-use...  Read More >>

Golden Age Shtetl

Golden Age Shtetl

Author: Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University, Illinois)
ISBN: 9781306408356
Format: Electronic book text
$99.00

The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long...  Read More >>

Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City

Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing...

Author: Angela Lehmann
ISBN: 9781306409476
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

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Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities, 1880-1939

Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities, 1880-1939

Author: John Griffiths (Cambridge Research Institute)
ISBN: 9781306551342
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this book explores how far imperial culture penetrated antipodean...  Read More >>

China S Urbanization and the World Economy

China S Urbanization and the World Economy

Author: F Zhang
ISBN: 9781306705950
Format: Undefined
$316.80

This innovative book places China s urbanization within a broader global context, including a detailed estimate...  Read More >>

Marxism and Urban Culture

Marxism and Urban Culture

Author: Les Roberts, Dr (University of Liverpool, UK) ,  Malcolm Alan Compitello
ISBN: 9781306734394
Format: Electronic book text
$237.57

Marxism and Urban Culture takes a broad view of Marx s legacy and largely in the spirit of Marxist urban geographers...  Read More >>

Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American...

Author: President Benjamin Ross (Disposal Safety, Inc.)
ISBN: 9781306789073
Format: Electronic book text
$139.92

More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities,...  Read More >>

Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012

Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012...

Author: Peter Sramek
ISBN: 9781306771634
Format: Electronic book text
$42.56

Examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary rephotographs taken by...  Read More >>

Urban Planning Methods: Research and Policy Analysis

Urban Planning Methods: Research and Policy Analysis...

Author: Ian Bracken
ISBN: 9781306575324
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

Focuses on the need to combine traditional research methods with policy analysis in order to understand the true...  Read More >>

Understanding the Chinese City

Understanding the Chinese City

Author: Li Shiqiao (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781306868280
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

One thing is clear: in marginalising Chinese tradition and falling short of wholesale importation of Western cultural...  Read More >>

The Early Modern City 1450-1750

The Early Modern City 1450-1750

Author: Christopher R Friedrichs
ISBN: 9781306870092
Format: Electronic book text
$570.11

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Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan

Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean...

Author: David Rands
ISBN: 9781306828604
Format: Electronic book text
$211.17

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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
ISBN: 9781306855938
Format: Undefined
$198.00

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

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset...

Author: Tarry Hum
ISBN: 9781306878319
Format: Electronic book text
$236.28

Based on more than a decade of research, this book charts the evolution of Sunset Park - with a densely concentrated...  Read More >>

Housing Policy in the United States, 3rd Edition

Housing Policy in the United States, 3rd Edition

Author: Alex F Schwartz (New School University, USA)
ISBN: 9781306890434
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

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America's Top-Rated Cities, 2014

America's Top-Rated Cities, 2014

Author: David Garoogian
ISBN: 9781306898454
Format: Electronic book text
$826.32

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Shapers of Urban Form: Explorations in Morphological Agency

Shapers of Urban Form: Explorations in Morphological...

Author: Peter J Larkham (Birmingham City University) ,  Michael P Conzen (University of Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9781306905886
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and...  Read More >>

Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

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

Author: G Erdi-Lelandais
ISBN: 9781306923507
Format: Electronic book text
$214.32

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

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

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

Author: Professor Roberta Gold
ISBN: 9781306980999
Format: Electronic book text
$145.20

In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War...  Read More >>

Renewing Cities

Renewing Cities

Author: Dr Ross J Gittell (University of New Hampshire, Durham)
ISBN: 9781306985437
Format: Electronic book text
$205.92

The cities of Lowell and New Bedford in Massachusetts, Jamestown in New York, and McKeesport in Pennsylvania have...  Read More >>

Industrialization and Urbanization: Studies in Interdisciplinary History

Industrialization and Urbanization: Studies in Interdisciplinary...

Author: Theodore K Rabb ,  Acade Oc Voce-President for Arts Sciences and Technology Robert I Rotberg (Harvard University Tufts University Tufts University Tufts University Tufts University)
ISBN: 9781306993982
Format: Electronic book text
$163.55

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical...  Read More >>

Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention in Contemporary China

Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention...

Author: Jeffrey Becker
ISBN: 9781306994507
Format: Electronic book text
$224.37

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Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants

Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences...

Author: Hans-Christian Petersen
ISBN: 9781306995894
Format: Electronic book text
$101.90

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