Urban communities books

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Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day

Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity...

Author: Jan Gadeyne ,  Gregory Smith
ISBN: 9781409463696
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary)...  Read More >>

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics...

Author: Lawrence J. Vale
ISBN: 9780226012452
Format: Paperback
$56.95

"Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the ""deserving poor."" This title offers the novel...  Read More >>

Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth

Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood...

Author: Jamie J. Fader
ISBN: 9780813560731
Format: Paperback
$110.75

Documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of colour who...  Read More >>

Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan

Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life...

Author: Louise Young
ISBN: 9780520275201
Format: Hardback
$140.95

"In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political...  Read More >>

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics...

Author: Lawrence J. Vale
ISBN: 9780226012315
Format: Hardback
$173.95

"Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the ""deserving poor."" This title offers the novel...  Read More >>

Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth

Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood...

Author: Jamie J. Fader
ISBN: 9780813560748
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of colour who...  Read More >>

English Riots of 2011

English Riots of 2011

Author: Daniel Briggs (University of East London, UK)
ISBN: 9781299613362
Format: Electronic book text
$94.88

From Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry and gossip to hard facts, research and empirical investigation, this outstanding...  Read More >>

Globalization, Modernity and the City

Globalization, Modernity and the City

Author: John Rennie Short
ISBN: 9780415857888
Format: Paperback
$79.99

We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology and Urbanized Society

Urban Sociology and Urbanized Society

Author: J.R. Mellor
ISBN: 9780415851909
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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The Future of Cities

The Future of Cities

Author: Andrew Blowers ,  Chris Hamnett
ISBN: 9780415853699
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

Author: Thomas Heberer (University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany) ,  Christian Göbel (Lund University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9780415855549
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the...  Read More >>

Chasing Warsaw: Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990

Chasing Warsaw: Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change...

Author: Monika Grubbauer ,  Joanna Kusiak
ISBN: 9783593397788
Format: Paperback
$104.95

Focusing on Warsaw after 1990, this volume explores the interplay between Warsaw' past urban identities and urban...  Read More >>

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Author: Tai-Chee Wong (National Institute of Education, Singapore) ,  Jonathan Rigg (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415854979
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book explores how migration plays a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the rapidly...  Read More >>

Urban Decline (Routledge Revivals)

Urban Decline (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Clark
ISBN: 9780415844468
Format: Hardback
$204.00

This book analyses the causes and consequences of urban decline in Britain and the developed world, and assesses...  Read More >>

How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence

How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence

Author: J. Densley
ISBN: 9781137572936
Format: Paperback
$192.95

Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life. Topics include...  Read More >>

How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence

How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence

Author: J. Densley
ISBN: 9781137271501
Format: Hardback
$199.00

Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life. Topics include...  Read More >>

""Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"": Contemporary Planning in New York City

""Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"": Contemporary...

Author: Scott Larson
ISBN: 9781439909706
Format: Paperback
$81.71

How New York's mayor's urban development plans rely on a blending of Moses and Jacobs  Read More >>

""Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"": Contemporary Planning in New York City

""Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"": Contemporary...

Author: Scott Larson
ISBN: 9781439909690
Format: Hardback
$228.36

How New York's mayor's urban development plans rely on a blending of Moses and Jacobs  Read More >>

Sociality Revisited? the Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon

Sociality Revisited? the Use of the Internet and Mobile...

Author: Bettina Anja Frei
ISBN: 9789956728411
Format: Paperback
$211.99

This book draws on the perspectives of non-migrants and urban youth in Bamenda, in the Northwest region of Cameroon,...  Read More >>

Gunz, Poems & Rosez: The Experience, Strength & Hope of Michael Warrior Bonds

Gunz, Poems & Rosez: The Experience, Strength & Hope...

Author: Michael W Bonds
ISBN: 9781484921210
Format: Paperback
$41.58

Poetry and truth share the same breath when put in the correct artist's hands... -Jason Carney, HBO Def Poet, Writer,...  Read More >>

Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development: International Perspectives

Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development:...

Author: Peter Westoby ,  Gerard Dowling
ISBN: 9780415537889
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless,...  Read More >>

A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City

A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle...

Author: Jonathan Schuppe
ISBN: 9780805092875
Format: Hardback
$68.64

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Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Author: Lucas Mann
ISBN: 9780307907547
Format: Hardback
$71.15

An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails...  Read More >>

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