Urban communities books

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Migration, Development and Urban Food Security

Migration, Development and Urban Food Security

Author: Jonathan Crush
ISBN: 9781920409784
Format: Paperback
$98.74

Over the last decade, two issues have risen to the top of the international development agenda: Food Security &...  Read More >>

The State of Food Insecuritity in Windhoek, Namibia

The State of Food Insecuritity in Windhoek, Namibia...

Author: Wade Pendleton ,  Ndeyapo Nickanor
ISBN: 9781920597016
Format: Paperback
$84.22

AFSUN recently conducted a survey of poor urban households in eleven major cities in Southern Africa to better understand...  Read More >>

Adolescent Development and School Achievement in Urban Communities: Resilience in the Neighborhood

Adolescent Development and School Achievement in Urban...

Author: Gary Creasey (Illinois State University, USA) ,  Patricia A Jarvis (illinois State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415894166
Format: Paperback
$103.00

This timely volume explores essential themes, issues, and challenges related to adolescents’ lives and learning...  Read More >>

The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence

The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence...

Author: William M. Rohe
ISBN: 9780812222258
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Over the past three decades, the economy of North Carolina's Research Triangle has been transformed from one dependent...  Read More >>

Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Order in Boston

Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and...

Author: Daniel J. Monti
ISBN: 9781611475913
Format: Hardback
$151.99

Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Order in Boston by Daniel J. Monti, Jr. explores how...  Read More >>

Adolescent Development and School Achievement in Urban Communities: Resilience in the Neighborhood

Adolescent Development and School Achievement in Urban...

Author: Gary Creasey (Illinois State University, USA) ,  Patricia A Jarvis (illinois State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415894159
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This timely volume explores essential themes, issues, and challenges related to adolescents’ lives and learning...  Read More >>

Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City

Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City

Author: Warren Magnusson (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415831260
Format: Paperback
$114.00

"The central argument of this book is that we need to abandon our state-centric approach to political understanding...  Read More >>

Suburban Gridlock

Suburban Gridlock

Author: Robert Cervero ,  Robert Cervero
ISBN: 9781412848688
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Culture and Civilization: Cosmopolitanism and the Global Polity

Culture and Civilization: Cosmopolitanism and the Global...

Author: Gabriel R. Ricci
ISBN: 9781412849739
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This volume of Culture and Civilization focuses on cosmopolitanism, the global polity, and political ramifications...  Read More >>

Rethinking Municipal Privatization

Rethinking Municipal Privatization

Author: Oliver D. Cooke
ISBN: 9780415543118
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions

Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions...

Author: Linda Krause ,  Alfonso Iracheta
ISBN: 9780813554150
Format: Paperback
$94.91

What has happened to cities after the global economic recession? Sustaining Cities answers this question by explaining...  Read More >>

Cities and Photography

Cities and Photography

Author: Jane Tormey (University of Loughborough, UK)
ISBN: 9781283972383
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

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Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions

Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions...

Author: Linda Krause ,  Alfonso Iracheta
ISBN: 9780813554167
Format: Hardback
$396.00

What has happened to cities after the global economic recession? Sustaining Cities answers this question by explaining...  Read More >>

Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach

Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial...

Author: Samuel Cruz ,  Peter Savastano
ISBN: 9780739176757
Format: Hardback
$141.95

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de Proche En Proche: Ethnographie Des Formes d'Association En Chine Contemporaine

de Proche En Proche: Ethnographie Des Formes d'Association...

Author: Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft ,  Pierre François Souyri
ISBN: 9783034312080
Format: Hardback
$168.19

Les contributions réunies ici, écrites par des chercheurs chinois et français, prennent appui sur des matériaux...  Read More >>

Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature

Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature...

Author: Diana Mitlin ,  David Satterthwaite
ISBN: 9780415624671
Format: Paperback
$114.00

One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the...  Read More >>

Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature

Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature...

Author: Diana Mitlin ,  David Satterthwaite
ISBN: 9780415624664
Format: Hardback
$284.00

One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the...  Read More >>

Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places

Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places...

Author: Nan Ellin
ISBN: 9781610913744
Format: Paperback
$93.99

Identifies the obstacles to creating thriving environments, and presents a six-step process to overcome them: prospect,...  Read More >>

Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia

Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and...

Author: Tim Bunnell ,  D. Parthasarathy
ISBN: 9789400754812
Format: Hardback
$284.60

In contrast to many publications on the rural/urban divide, this volume provides empirical perspectives from four...  Read More >>

Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism

Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary...

Author: Flavia Martinelli ,  Frank Moulaert (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK)
ISBN: 9780415608947
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents a new methodology for the analysis of regional and urban development within a globalized world,...  Read More >>

Locating Right to the City in the Global South

Locating Right to the City in the Global South

Author: Tony Samara (George Mason University, USA) ,  Shenjing He (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
ISBN: 9780415635646
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the...  Read More >>

Cities and Climate Change

Cities and Climate Change

Author: Harriet Bulkeley (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415597050
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Cities and Climate Change is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of cities in addressing...  Read More >>

Cities and Climate Change

Cities and Climate Change

Author: Harriet Bulkeley (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415597043
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Cities and Climate Change is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of cities in addressing...  Read More >>

New Orleans and the Design Moment

New Orleans and the Design Moment

Author: Jacob Wagner (University of Missouri, USA) ,  Michael Frisch (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
ISBN: 9780415623520
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Post-Katrina New Orleans has been a testing ground for many ideas about city planning and urban design. This volume...  Read More >>

Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools

Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies for Managing...

Author: Paul T. Hill ,  Christine Campbell
ISBN: 9780815724278
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing - and stubborn - public policy problems. This...  Read More >>

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