Urban communities books

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Trading places: Accessing land in African cities

Trading places: Accessing land in African cities

Author: Mark Napier ,  Stephen Berrisford
ISBN: 9781920489991
Format: Paperback
$119.06

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and...  Read More >>

The Territories of Identity: Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalization

The Territories of Identity: Architecture in the Age...

Author: Soumyen Bandyopadhyay (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) ,  Guillermo Garma Montiel (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415622882
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Including a range of case studies and with contributions from eminent individuals, this book presents fresh insights...  Read More >>

A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come: Newark, Cory Booker, and the Transformation of Urban America

A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come: Newark, Cory Booker,...

Author: J. Wharton
ISBN: 9781137277718
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This work offers a political and historical analysis of Newark's modern politics since 1950, culminating with Mayor...  Read More >>

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for the Global City

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular...

Author: Sharon V. Betcher
ISBN: 9780823253913
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Offers philosophical reflection worked through spiritual and religious values, then turned toward somatic practice,...  Read More >>

Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

Author: Christine Wamsler (Lund University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9780415591027
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating...  Read More >>

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for the Global City

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular...

Author: Sharon V. Betcher
ISBN: 9780823253906
Format: Hardback
$205.95

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Dark Tales from the Dungeons: Horrors from the 'Hood for Youth to Beware

Dark Tales from the Dungeons: Horrors from the 'Hood...

Author: Dortell Williams ,  Dortell Williams
ISBN: 9781491259986
Format: Paperback
$26.37

This book is a collaboration of writings by The Men for Honor Writers Group at the California State Prison in Los...  Read More >>

Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference

Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference

Author: Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
ISBN: 9780745648569
Format: Paperback
$32.95

With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories...  Read More >>

Artistic Lives: A Study of Creativity in Two European Cities

Artistic Lives: A Study of Creativity in Two European...

Author: Kirsten Forkert
ISBN: 9781409450009
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference

Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference

Author: Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
ISBN: 9780745648552
Format: Hardback
$103.95

With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories...  Read More >>

Urbanization in Asia: Governance, Infrastructure and the Environment

Urbanization in Asia: Governance, Infrastructure and...

Author: Kala Seetharam Sridhar ,  Guanghua Wan
ISBN: 9788132216377
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Café Society

Café Society

Author: A. Tjora ,  G. Scambler
ISBN: 9781349446438
Format: Paperback
$179.00

While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions...  Read More >>

Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City

Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between...

Author: C. Kihato
ISBN: 9781349452996
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between...  Read More >>

Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

Author: Christine Wamsler (Lund University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9780415591034
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating...  Read More >>

Rabbits In Colonies: Grayscale

Rabbits In Colonies: Grayscale

Author: A Z Nilsson ,  Boyd Craven Jr
ISBN: 9781494489519
Format: Paperback
$27.43

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Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City

Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City...

Author: Prof. Mike Pearson
ISBN: 9780859898768
Format: Paperback
$58.22

This book charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city –...  Read More >>

Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City

Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between...

Author: C. Kihato
ISBN: 9781137299963
Format: Hardback
$149.00

Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between...  Read More >>

Café Society

Café Society

Author: A. Tjora ,  G. Scambler
ISBN: 9781137275929
Format: Hardback
$179.00

While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions...  Read More >>

Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City

Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City...

Author: Prof. Mike Pearson
ISBN: 9780859898751
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This book charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city –...  Read More >>

Urban Ills: Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts

Urban Ills: Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban...

Author: Carol Camp Yeakey ,  Vetta L. Sanders Thompson
ISBN: 9780739177006
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Urban Ills: Confronting Twenty First Century Dilemmas of Urban Living in Global Contexts brings together original...  Read More >>

The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes

The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes...

Author: Patrick Keiller
ISBN: 9781781681404
Format: Hardback
$32.99

Essays by the iconic British filmmaker on the relationship between film, cities and landscape.  Read More >>

Problems of an Urban School District and Educational Solutions

Problems of an Urban School District and Educational...

Author: William Molnar III ,  Dr William Molnar III
ISBN: 9781494343453
Format: Paperback
$21.09

This book investigates the problems the Middletown School District is facing and alternatives that can be utilized...  Read More >>

Moscow and Muscovites

Moscow and Muscovites

Author: Vladimir Gilyarovsky ,  Brendan Kiernan
ISBN: 9781880100820
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Vladimir Gilyarovsky's classic portrait of the Russian capital is one of Russians' most beloved books. Yet it has...  Read More >>

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