Urban communities books

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Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914

Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class...

Author: Joseph J. Varga
ISBN: 9781583673485
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Hell's Kitchen is among Manhattan's most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next...  Read More >>

""We Live in the Shadow"": Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs

""We Live in the Shadow"": Inner-City Kids Tell Their...

Author: Elaine Bell Kaplan ,  Elaine Bell Kaplan
ISBN: 9781439907900
Format: Paperback
$73.79

The inner-city world of at-risk teens through their powerful photos and stories  Read More >>

Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit

Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar...

Author: June Manning Thomas
ISBN: 9780814339077
Format: Paperback
$87.09

A new postscript offers insights into changes since 1997.  Read More >>

Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and Policies

Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and Policies

Author: Simon Bekker ,  Laurent Fourchard
ISBN: 9780796924162
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Studies of government and politics in Africa are dominated by a focus on the national and are typically set apart...  Read More >>

Nepal's Urban Growth and Spatial Transition: An Initial Assessment

Nepal's Urban Growth and Spatial Transition: An Initial...

Author: Elisa Muzzini ,  Gabriela Aparicio
ISBN: 9780821396599
Format: Paperback
$68.51

This book carries out an initial assessment of Nepal’s urban growth and spatial transformation, with a focus on...  Read More >>

Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914

Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class...

Author: Joseph J. Varga
ISBN: 9781583673492
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Hell's Kitchen is among Manhattan's most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next...  Read More >>

""We Live in the Shadow"": Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs

""We Live in the Shadow"": Inner-City Kids Tell Their...

Author: Elaine Bell Kaplan ,  Elaine Bell Kaplan
ISBN: 9781439907894
Format: Hardback
$215.16

The inner-city world of at-risk teens through their powerful photos and stories  Read More >>

The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization

The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest...

Author: Andy Merrifield
ISBN: 9780820345307
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and...  Read More >>

Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement Economy, Equity, and Environment

Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship...

Author: Lorlene Hoyt
ISBN: 9780826519054
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Written by engaged scholars and practitioners, Transforming Cities and Minds is an “instrument-for-action” on the...  Read More >>

The Rust Belt Rising Almanac: Volume 1

The Rust Belt Rising Almanac: Volume 1

Author: Linda Gallant ,  Nicolas Esposito
ISBN: 9780989312509
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. THE RUST BELT RISING ALMANAC is a collection of snapshots and stories...  Read More >>

Confessions of a Police Constable

Confessions of a Police Constable

Author: Matt Delito
ISBN: 9780007497454
Format: Paperback
$14.99

Thieving ninjas, racist fast-food patrons, road traffic accidents, mischievous shoplifters, sudden deaths, car chases,...  Read More >>

Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Principles for the Built Environment

Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Principles for the Built...

Author: Frederick R. Adler (University of Utah) ,  Colby J. Tanner (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9780521746137
Format: Paperback
$147.46

This book provides the tools students need to understand how urban ecosystems work. It uses a comparative approach...  Read More >>

Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Principles for the Built Environment

Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Principles for the Built...

Author: Frederick R. Adler (University of Utah) ,  Colby J. Tanner (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9780521769846
Format: Hardback
$300.15

This book provides the tools students need to understand how urban ecosystems work. It uses a comparative approach...  Read More >>

Wo Der Konig Burgermeister War: Charlottenburger Stadtgeschichten Seit 1700

Wo Der Konig Burgermeister War: Charlottenburger Stadtgeschichten...

Author: Dorothea Zobl
ISBN: 9783786126867
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Das alteste Haus Charlottenburgs entstand 1712 noch in der Einode zwischen Berlin und Spandau, wo Friedrich I. eine...  Read More >>

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who...

Author: Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara
ISBN: 9780226016658
Format: Hardback
$185.95

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up - in fact, it will likely...  Read More >>

Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality

Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress...

Author: Patrick Sharkey
ISBN: 9780226924250
Format: Paperback
$56.95

In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new era of racial equality...  Read More >>

Sotsial'nye Tekhnologii Realizatsii Aktivnosti Gorodskogo Naseleniya

Sotsial'nye Tekhnologii Realizatsii Aktivnosti Gorodskogo...

Author: Popkova Alena Anatol'evna ,  Mataev Aleksandr Sergeevich
ISBN: 9783659381898
Format: Paperback
$70.66

V rabote predstavlen analiz territorial'nogo obshchestvennogo samoupravleniya kak tekhnologii povysheniya sotsial'noy...  Read More >>

Dharavi: From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

Dharavi: From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

Author: Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky
ISBN: 9780415812528
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts

Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts

Author: Kathleen Gallagher (University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Jonothan Neelands (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9780415835367
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and...  Read More >>

Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities

Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities

Author: Anne Lorentzen (Aalborg University, Denmark) ,  Bas van Heur (University of Maastricht, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415818636
Format: Paperback
$114.00

The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture...  Read More >>

SEUH 30 The Power of Space in late medieval and early modern Europe: The Cities of Italy, Northern France and the Low Countries

SEUH 30 The Power of Space in late medieval and early...

Author: Marc Boone (Universiteit Gent Belgium) ,  Martha Howell
ISBN: 9782503547848
Format: Paperback
$298.32

This volume examines the politics of space in the most densely urbanized areas of Europe during the late Middle...  Read More >>

City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure...

Author: Carl Smith
ISBN: 9780226022512
Format: Hardback
$72.95

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic,...  Read More >>

Indigenous in the City: Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

Indigenous in the City: Contemporary Identities and...

Author: Evelyn Peters ,  Chris Andersen
ISBN: 9781299398436
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

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