Urban communities books

Some 650 community gardens dot the city of New York. These gardens are attended by some of the least advantaged...  Read More >>

This is a riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency...  Read More >>

This is a riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency...  Read More >>

This is a riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency...  Read More >>

This volume identifies challenges to the resilience of Australia's cities and regions that flow from a range of...  Read More >>

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

This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental...  Read More >>

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Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe...  Read More >>

Ths first book-length history of the “active adult” lifestyle. Examining the origins, development, failures, and...  Read More >>

What this new edition of State of the World’s Cities shows is that prosperity for all has been compromised by a...  Read More >>

Rather than condemning the planning and development of the Interstate Highway System, J. Gerlach's Simple History...  Read More >>

"¿Qué es la norma?, ¿es algo interno o externo al sujeto?, ¿cómo se construye?, ¿qué significado adquieren en la...  Read More >>

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By considering cross-sectional and longitudinal aspects, linear and non-linear models, point and change data, different...  Read More >>

Adapted and updated from Information geographique et dynamiques urbaines published 2008 in France by Hermes Science/Lavoisier....  Read More >>

Urban transport systems need to be analyzed from various perspectives: the offer on one hand, the demand on the...  Read More >>

This personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner cities is told through the engaging narrative of...  Read More >>

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Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is known for its bustling street life. Public spaces, such as streets and sidewalks,...  Read More >>

Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors...  Read More >>

This study of the food security situation of the poor in Manzini, Swaziland's economic hub, formed part of AFSUN's...  Read More >>

Harare is at the epicentre of the economic meltdown and political crisis that has devastated Zimbabwe over the last...  Read More >>

Johannesburg is the economic hub of South Africa and the Southern African region. At the same time, it is a city...  Read More >>