Urban communities books

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Living and Dying in Brick City

Living and Dying in Brick City

Author: Dr Sampson Davis ,  Dr Lisa Frazier Page
ISBN: 9781299182967
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

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

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Author: Lucas Mann
ISBN: 9781299538023
Format: Electronic book text
$126.32

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Radicals' City: Urban Environment, Polarisation, Cohesion

Radicals' City: Urban Environment, Polarisation, Cohesion...

Author: Ralf Brand ,  Sara Fregonese
ISBN: 9781299712249
Format: Undefined
$290.27

Bringing together comparative case studies from Belfast, Beirut, Amsterdam and Berlin, this book examines the role...  Read More >>

China's Hukou System: Markets, Migrants and Institutional Change

China's Hukou System: Markets, Migrants and Institutional...

Author: Jason Young, Pha
ISBN: 9781299717046
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

With the move to a market-oriented economy, the growth of large scale internal migration has created new forces...  Read More >>

Urban Megaprojects: A Worldwide View

Urban Megaprojects: A Worldwide View

Author: Ray Hutchison
ISBN: 9781299718302
Format: Electronic book text
$409.07

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Urban Public Space: Facing the Challenges of Mobility and Aestheticization

Urban Public Space: Facing the Challenges of Mobility...

Author: Oleg Pachenkov
ISBN: 9781299878297
Format: Electronic book text
$97.55

Urban public space continues to be the focus of debate regarding its conceptualization and how it is designed, (re)produced...  Read More >>

Memories of Cities

Memories of Cities

Author: Jonathan Charley (University of Strathclyde, UK)
ISBN: 9781299398153
Format: Undefined
$237.47

Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic...  Read More >>

China's New Urbanization Strategy

China's New Urbanization Strategy

Author:
ISBN: 9781299448148
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing China. Of China s 1.3 billion people, around half still live...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology: Critical Essays

Urban Sociology: Critical Essays

Author: C G Pickvance
ISBN: 9781299477261
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources...  Read More >>

Centrality and Cities

Centrality and Cities

Author: James Bird
ISBN: 9781299479098
Format: Electronic book text
$696.96

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Homeless: Policies, Strategies and Lives on the Streets

Homeless: Policies, Strategies and Lives on the Streets...

Author: Gerald Daly
ISBN: 9781299480384
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is...  Read More >>

Urban Transformation, The: Health, Shelter and Climate Change

Urban Transformation, The: Health, Shelter and Climate...

Author: Elliott D Sclar (Columbia University, USA) ,  Nicole Volavka-Close (Columbia University, USA)
ISBN: 9781299540347
Format: Electronic book text
$501.60

For the first time in history, half of the world's population lives in urban areas and it is expected that, by 2050,...  Read More >>

The Social Construction of Ancient Cities

The Social Construction of Ancient Cities

Author: Monica L Smith
ISBN: 9781299577480
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

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Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body: Writing Architecture and the Body

Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature:...

Author: Laura Colombino (University of Genoa, Italy)
ISBN: 9781299685307
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing...  Read More >>

Secular City

Secular City

Author: Harvey Cox
ISBN: 9781299782273
Format: Electronic book text
$75.24

Since its initial publication in 1965, The Secular City has been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration...  Read More >>

Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools

Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools...

Author: Sean B Yisrael
ISBN: 9781299790162
Format: Electronic book text
$63.33

The Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools is a marriage between the Art of War and effective school...  Read More >>

Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday

Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and...

Author: Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Britt Baillie
ISBN: 9781299827387
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. This book brings...  Read More >>

Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd

Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and...

Author: Peter Andersson
ISBN: 9781299828018
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914

Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914

Author: Helen Meller (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781299871342
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

The central concern of this book, first published in 1976, is to assess how successful the late Victorians were...  Read More >>

Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City

Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City

Author: Andrew Merrifield
ISBN: 9781299477902
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

Metromarxim discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s to the present by way of biographical...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology

Urban Sociology

Author: R N Morris
ISBN: 9781299478565
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

This book offers a coherant theoretical introduction to urban sociology. Based on the urban theory of Louis Wirth,...  Read More >>

Chinese Urban Design

Chinese Urban Design

Author: Fei Chen ,  Kevin Thwaites (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781299758902
Format: Undefined
$316.67

The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis. With the rapid development taking place, there is...  Read More >>

Small-Town America

Small-Town America

Author: Gerhard R Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781299402782
Format: Electronic book text
$116.03

More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast...  Read More >>

City and Society: An Outline for Urban Geography

City and Society: An Outline for Urban Geography

Author: R J Johnston
ISBN: 9781299476745
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

This book was first published in 1980.  Read More >>

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