Urban communities books

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Transcultural Cities: Border-Crossing and Placemaking

Transcultural Cities: Border-Crossing and Placemaking...

Author: Jeffrey Hou (University of Washington, USA)
ISBN: 9780415631426
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Transcultural Cities collects case studies of intercultural exchange and the urban transformations that have accompanied...  Read More >>

The University and the City

The University and the City

Author: John Goddard ,  Paul Vallance
ISBN: 9780415589925
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are...  Read More >>

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy: The Urban Link

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy: The Urban Link...

Author: Michele Acuto (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415660884
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections...  Read More >>

Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

Author: Peter Newman (Curtin Univ, Australia) ,  Anne Matan (Curtin Univ, Australia)
ISBN: 9789814425476
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially...  Read More >>

Negotiating the Political

Negotiating the Political

Author: Sheila Sweetinburgh
ISBN: 9780866984829
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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The Future Master Fard Muhammad

The Future Master Fard Muhammad

Author: Elijah Muhammad
ISBN: 9780989042505
Format: Paperback
$47.49

In the Name of Allah and Muhammad. As Salaam-Alaikum. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that, The Holy Qur'an...  Read More >>

The Future Master Fard Muhammad

The Future Master Fard Muhammad

Author: Elijah Muhammad
ISBN: 9781944992002
Format: Hardback
$44.17

In the Name of Allah and Muhammad. As Salaam-Alaikum. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that, The Holy Qur'an...  Read More >>

A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race and Justice in Syracuse

A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race and Justice in Syracuse...

Author: K. Animashaun Ducre
ISBN: 9780815633068
Format: Hardback
$65.87

"Faith holds up a photo of the boarded-up, vacant house: """"It’s the first thing I see. And I just call it ‘the...  Read More >>

Urbanization Process in Cameroon: Process, Patterns & Implications

Urbanization Process in Cameroon: Process, Patterns...

Author: Lawrence Fombe Fon ,  Sounders Nguh Balgah
ISBN: 9781619424722
Format: Hardback
$335.94

Offers an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. This book provides an analysis of the patterns of urbanisation...  Read More >>

On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of English Suburbia After 7/7

On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of English Suburbia...

Author: Rupa Huq, MP.
ISBN: 9781907103728
Format: Paperback
$41.40

This book presents a convincing case for the need to radically rethink the way we understand contemporary suburban...  Read More >>

People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants

People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its...

Author: Tony Parker
ISBN: 9781906011192
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London....  Read More >>

From Shack to House to Fortress – Memory, Space an d Favela Consolidation in Contemporary Rio de Jane iro

From Shack to House to Fortress – Memory, Space an d...

Author: M Cavalcanti
ISBN: 9781444330892
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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From Shack to House to Fortress – Memory, Space an d Favela Consolidation in Contemporary Rio de Jane iro

From Shack to House to Fortress – Memory, Space an d...

Author: M Cavalcanti
ISBN: 9781444330885
Format: Hardback
$155.25

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Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver

Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver

Author: Eugene Salomon
ISBN: 9780007500956
Format: Paperback
$14.99

Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the...  Read More >>

China's New Urbanization Strategy

China's New Urbanization Strategy

Author: China Development Research Foundation
ISBN: 9780415625906
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Creating Smart-er Cities

Creating Smart-er Cities

Author: Mark Deakin (Napier University, Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9780415628020
Format: Hardback
$194.00

This book draws upon the findings of recent research projects exploring the creativity of smart cities. It captures...  Read More >>

Social Movements in Latin America: Neoliberalism and Popular Resistance

Social Movements in Latin America: Neoliberalism and...

Author: J. Petras ,  Henry Veltmeyer
ISBN: 9781137300119
Format: Paperback
$84.99

The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of...  Read More >>

American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States

American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador...

Author: David Pedersen
ISBN: 9780226653396
Format: Hardback
$173.95

El Salvador emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income coming from a massive emigrant...  Read More >>

Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People

Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial...

Author: Jurgen von Mahs ,  Jeurgen Von Mahs
ISBN: 9781439908266
Format: Hardback
$201.96

An international account of homelessness, comparing Berlin and Los Angeles and the possibility of exiting homelessness...  Read More >>

Globalization of Communes: 1950-2010

Globalization of Communes: 1950-2010

Author: Yaacov Oved
ISBN: 9781412849487
Format: Hardback
$284.00

After World War II, communes and cooperative communities became internationally oriented in their membership and...  Read More >>

American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States

American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador...

Author: David Pedersen
ISBN: 9780226653402
Format: Paperback
$56.95

El Salvador emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income coming from a massive emigrant...  Read More >>

Reappraisals: Essays in the History of Youth and Community Work

Reappraisals: Essays in the History of Youth and Community...

Author: Ruth Gilchrist ,  Tony Jeffs
ISBN: 9781905541881
Format: Paperback
$51.62

This sixth volume of essays reflects an increasing desire amongst both academics and practitioners to chart the...  Read More >>

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope...

Author: Katherine Boo (Staff Writer, New Yorker, Y)
ISBN: 9781846274510
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he...  Read More >>

Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption

Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs,...

Author: Jorja Leap
ISBN: 9780807044810
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"When Jorja Leap began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, she encountered a myriad of proposed solutions...  Read More >>

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