Urban communities books

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Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis...

Author: Leo Hollis
ISBN: 9781620402061
Format: Hardback
$73.92

Fascinating, entertaining, radical and impassioned, Cities Are Good for You is a rallying cry for twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Rogue urbanism: Emergent African cities

Rogue urbanism: Emergent African cities

Author: Edgar Pieterse ,  Abdoumaliq Simone
ISBN: 9781431406234
Format: Hardback
$119.03

The unique ambition of Rogue Urbanism is to produce new and relevant theoretical work on African urbanism in a way...  Read More >>

Indie: A Mystery Thriller

Indie: A Mystery Thriller

Author: Bryan Mooney ,  Yann Patel
ISBN: 9781490981055
Format: Paperback
$24.39

"Javed Khan, a tough and seasoned detective, was the best homicide cop in New Delhi before being demoted to the...  Read More >>

Resurrection Through Community

Resurrection Through Community

Author: Pesta Julie
ISBN: 9783846532195
Format: Paperback
$120.06

Phoenixville began as a small settlement on the Schuylkill River that quickly grew into a center of industry. A...  Read More >>

Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading from the Mobile City

Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading...

Author: Benjamin Fraser
ISBN: 9781611485233
Format: Paperback
$99.99

An important contribution to the still evolving field of 'urban cultural studies,' Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish...  Read More >>

Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917

Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of...

Author: Gretchen Soderlund
ISBN: 9780226021539
Format: Paperback
$52.95

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the public had had enough of sex and death. This title offers a new way...  Read More >>

Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities

Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out...

Author: Mindy Thompson Fullilove ,  French Architect Jean Nouvel
ISBN: 9781613320105
Format: Paperback
$50.99

Investigating urban segregation from a social health perspective, the author presents ways to strengthen neighborhood...  Read More >>

Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing: The Case of the Atkinson Housing Co-operative

Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing:...

Author: Jorge Sousa
ISBN: 9780802038036
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing follows the journey of a Toronto public housing complex as it...  Read More >>

Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions...

Author: David A. Frick ,  David A. Frick
ISBN: 9780801451287
Format: Hardback
$191.48

Perhaps the most complete reconstruction ever written of life in an early modern European city, this book sets a...  Read More >>

Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities

Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out...

Author: Mindy Thompson Fullilove
ISBN: 9781613320532
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Investigating urban segregation from a social health perspective, the author presents ways to strengthen neighborhood...  Read More >>

China's Hukou System: Markets, Migrants and Institutional Change

China's Hukou System: Markets, Migrants and Institutional...

Author: Jason Young
ISBN: 9781137277305
Format: Hardback
$84.99

By 2010, 260 million citizens were living outside of their permanent hukou location, a major challenge to the constrictive...  Read More >>

Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917

Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of...

Author: Gretchen Soderlund
ISBN: 9780226021362
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Offers a way to understand sensationalism in newspapers and reform movements. This title explains how the social...  Read More >>

Teach For America and the Struggle for Urban School Reform: Searching for Agency in an Era of Standardization

Teach For America and the Struggle for Urban School...

Author: Katy Crawford-Garrett
ISBN: 9781433123771
Format: Paperback
$132.26

Traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for...  Read More >>

Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City

Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City

Author: Kathryn Edin ,  Timothy J. Nelson
ISBN: 9780520274068
Format: Hardback
$140.95

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Critical Rural Theory: Structure, Space, Culture

Critical Rural Theory: Structure, Space, Culture

Author: Alexander R. Thomas ,  Brian Lowe
ISBN: 9780739135600
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Critical Rural Theory provides an exploratory foundation for anyone interested in examining the hegemonic power...  Read More >>

African City Textualities

African City Textualities

Author: Ranka Primorac (University of Southampton, UK)
ISBN: 9780415852531
Format: Paperback
$92.99

A path-breaking collection of essays on city texts and cultures, this anthology merges the concerns of urban, cultural...  Read More >>

Small Cities and Towns in Global Era: Emerging Changes and Perspectives

Small Cities and Towns in Global Era: Emerging Changes...

Author: R N Sharma ,  R S Sandhu
ISBN: 9788131605752
Format: Hardback
$171.60

In last two decades or so, the process of globalization has stirred up societies in various ways. The new market...  Read More >>

Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education

Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas:...

Author: Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg) ,  Ingrid Gogolin (University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9789027214140
Format: Hardback
$163.01

Provides an overview of topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism...  Read More >>

Cusco: Urbanism and Archaeology in the Inka World

Cusco: Urbanism and Archaeology in the Inka World

Author: Ian Farrington
ISBN: 9780813044330
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture

Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and...

Author: Jeroen de Kloet ,  Lena Scheen
ISBN: 9789089644459
Format: Paperback
$240.11

China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms...  Read More >>

American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination

American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination...

Author: Black Hawk Hancock
ISBN: 9780226043074
Format: Hardback
$172.95

Situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Delving into two Chicago dance...  Read More >>

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934

Author: Thomas Leslie
ISBN: 9780252037542
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Highlights an exceptionally dynamic, energetic period of architectural progress in Chicago.  Read More >>

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