Urban communities books

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Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway

Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York...

Author: Sunny Stalter-Pace
ISBN: 9781625340559
Format: Paperback
$73.79

For more than a century the New York City subway system has been a vital part of the city’s identity, even as judgments...  Read More >>

After the New Order: Space, Politics and Jakarta

After the New Order: Space, Politics and Jakarta

Author: Abidin Kusno ,  Phillip Darby
ISBN: 9780824837457
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This up-to-date and well-informed study identifies the factors behind the Indonesian military’s decision to reposition...  Read More >>

The Roots of Latino Urban Agency

The Roots of Latino Urban Agency

Author: Sharon A. Navarro ,  Rodolfo Rosales
ISBN: 9781574415308
Format: Hardback
$65.87

The essays selected in this study collectively suggest that political agency can encompass everything from voting,...  Read More >>

Urban Villager: Life in an Indian Satellite Town

Urban Villager: Life in an Indian Satellite Town

Author: Vandana Vasudevan
ISBN: 9788132113096
Format: Hardback
$75.90

Presents a representation of the life of an 'urban villager' in a modern satellite town of India. This book describes...  Read More >>

Complexity, Cognition and the City

Complexity, Cognition and the City

Author: Juval Portugali
ISBN: 9783642270871
Format: Paperback
$287.76

This book aims to foster a deeper understanding of urbanism, invoking the contributions both the hard and soft sciences...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology: A Global Introduction

Urban Sociology: A Global Introduction

Author: Mark Abrahamson
ISBN: 9780521139236
Format: Paperback
$75.01

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New Suburbanisms

New Suburbanisms

Author: Judith K De Jong
ISBN: 9781299852846
Format: Electronic book text
$263.74

Historically, we see the city as the cramped, crumbling core of development and culture, and the suburb as the vast...  Read More >>

Against Security

Against Security

Author: Harvey Molotch
ISBN: 9781283571456
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and...  Read More >>

Megacities: Our Global Urban Future

Megacities: Our Global Urban Future

Author: Frauke Kraas ,  Surinder Aggarwal
ISBN: 9781299869868
Format: Undefined
$340.56

As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 megacities...  Read More >>

American Capitals

American Capitals

Author:
ISBN: 9781306269797
Format: Undefined
$171.60

State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national...  Read More >>

Re-Imaging the City: A New Conceptualisation of the Urban Logic of the Islamic City

Re-Imaging the City: A New Conceptualisation of the...

Author:
ISBN: 9781306278355
Format: Electronic book text
$237.57

Somaiyeh Falahat investigates the spatial and morphological logic of pre-modern Middle Eastern and North African...  Read More >>

Megacities and the Coast: Risk, Resilience and Transformation

Megacities and the Coast: Risk, Resilience and Transformation...

Author: Mark Pelling (King's College London, UK) ,  Sophie Blackburn (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781306291927
Format: Electronic book text
$393.36

Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization...  Read More >>

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena

Author: Max Kirsch (Professor of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University)
ISBN: 9781306404570
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

This collection of essays addresses the inclusion and exclusion of peoples, populations and regions in an era of...  Read More >>

Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century

Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century...

Author: Rob Sullivan
ISBN: 9781306406505
Format: Undefined
$277.07

The first section of this book, provides a critique of the various theories applied to Los Angeles during the last...  Read More >>

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools

Author: Linn Posey-Maddox
ISBN: 9781306417105
Format: Undefined
$198.00

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to and often end...  Read More >>

In the Meantime

In the Meantime

Author: Sarah Sharma
ISBN: 9781306454391
Format: Electronic book text
$224.27

The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned...  Read More >>

Detroit: A Biography

Detroit: A Biography

Author: Scott Martelle
ISBN: 9781306416917
Format: Electronic book text
$36.93

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

Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times

Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together in Chaotic...

Author: Paul Born
ISBN: 9781306424882
Format: Electronic book text
$73.79

Community shapes our identity, quenches our thirst for belonging, and bolsters our physical, mental, emotional,...  Read More >>

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

Ambiguous Multiplicities, The: Materials, Episteme and...

Author: Andrea Mubi Brighenti
ISBN: 9781306452601
Format: Electronic book text
$178.20

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Cityscapes in History

Cityscapes in History

Author: Katrina Gulliver
ISBN: 9781306471008
Format: Undefined
$329.87

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

Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City

Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place...

Author: Isabelle Anguelovski
ISBN: 9781306491112
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

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Community Action Against Racism in West Las Vegas

Community Action Against Racism in West Las Vegas

Author: Robert J McKee
ISBN: 9781306512398
Format: Electronic book text
$197.97

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

Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development...

Author:
ISBN: 9781306532112
Format: Electronic book text
$237.47

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

A Companion to Urban Anthropology

A Companion to Urban Anthropology

Author: Donald M Nonini (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
ISBN: 9781306532266
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents a collection of original essays from international scholars on key issues...  Read More >>

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