Urban communities books

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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the...

Author: Gary Krist
ISBN: 9780770437077
Format: Electronic book text
$205.92

From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war.  Read More >>

Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs

Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs...

Author: Alison L. Bain
ISBN: 9781442646902
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This book firmly debunks the myth of culture as a solely urban phenomenon and demonstrates the social and economic...  Read More >>

Injury Statistics due to Poor Lighting and Impact of Solar Light

Injury Statistics due to Poor Lighting and Impact of...

Author: Joshi Janki ,  Sharma Promila
ISBN: 9783639702958
Format: Paperback
$227.81

Usually when darkness descends at hill region, people rush to wrap up their daily chores.They had to use kerosene...  Read More >>

Living skyline: Impact of condominium development in Colombo

Living skyline: Impact of condominium development in...

Author: Thushara Samaratunga
ISBN: 9783659457142
Format: Paperback
$156.53

Rapid industrialization and urbanization that has not been supported by an increase in housing has made housing...  Read More >>

Reforming a School System, Reviving a City: The Promise of Say Yes to Education in Syracuse

Reforming a School System, Reviving a City: The Promise...

Author: G. Maeroff
ISBN: 9781137349651
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education...  Read More >>

Reforming a School System, Reviving a City: The Promise of Say Yes to Education in Syracuse

Reforming a School System, Reviving a City: The Promise...

Author: G. Maeroff
ISBN: 9781137346827
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education...  Read More >>

Security and Inclusive Citizenship

Security and Inclusive Citizenship

Author: Myrann Sorboe Celina
ISBN: 9783659497810
Format: Paperback
$203.28

In Rio de Janeiro the socio-spatial segregation between the formal city and the informal settlements known as favelas...  Read More >>

Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010

Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi,...

Author: Danielle Labbé
ISBN: 9780774826679
Format: Hardback
$212.18

An engaging study of the rapid urbanization of a former village subsumed by the expanding city of Hanoi.  Read More >>

Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design

Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban...

Author: Rodolphe El-Khoury ,  Edwards Robbins
ISBN: 9780415584586
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Shaping the City takes on the key ideas facing the future of urban design.  Read More >>

The State of Urban Food Insecuritity in Cape Town

The State of Urban Food Insecuritity in Cape Town

Author: Jane Batters
ISBN: 9781920409715
Format: Paperback
$84.22

Cape Town is one of the wealthiest cities in the Southern African region. Yet, the vast majority of households in...  Read More >>

Making Sense of Cities: A Geographical Survey

Making Sense of Cities: A Geographical Survey

Author: Blair Badcock (University of Adelaide)
ISBN: 9781282666795
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

In 2000, for the first time, a majority of the world's population was living in cities. The trend towards increasing...  Read More >>

Turkey

Turkey

Author: Professor Feroz Ahmad (Yeditepe University, Istanbul)
ISBN: 9781282093706
Format: Electronic book text
$44.85

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Africa's Urban Revolution

Africa's Urban Revolution

Author: Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town, South Africa) ,  Edgar Pieterse
ISBN: 9781306289450
Format: Electronic book text
$335.15

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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 >>

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