Urban communities books

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Fire on the Prairie: Harold Washington, Chicago Politics, and the Roots of the Obama Presidency

Fire on the Prairie: Harold Washington, Chicago Politics,...

Author: Gary Rivlin
ISBN: 9781439904916
Format: Hardback
$241.56

A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political...  Read More >>

On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities

On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities...

Author: Geoffrey Symcox
ISBN: 9781442645073
Format: Hardback
$99.99

This edition of the treatise - which includes an introduction by Geoffrey W. Symcox on the intellectual context...  Read More >>

The Urban Turn: Cities, Talent and Knowledge in Denmark

The Urban Turn: Cities, Talent and Knowledge in Denmark...

Author: Hogni Kalso Hansen ,  Lars Winther
ISBN: 9788771240986
Format: Electronic book text
$102.96

The book is an overview and analysis of the contemporary location, distribution and dynamics of economic activity,...  Read More >>

Sustaining Cities

Sustaining Cities

Author: Linda Krause
ISBN: 9781283609821
Format: Electronic book text
$182.16

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Industrial Ruination, Community and Place: Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline

Industrial Ruination, Community and Place: Landscapes...

Author: Alice Mah
ISBN: 9781442645493
Format: Hardback
$120.00

This rich comparative study makes an essential contribution to far-reaching debates about the decline of manufacturing,...  Read More >>

Migration, Urbanization, and Development: New Directions and Issues

Migration, Urbanization, and Development: New Directions...

Author: Richard E. Bilsborrow
ISBN: 9789401060325
Format: Paperback
$284.60

International migration and urbanization are key dimensions of the process of socioeconomic development. Policy...  Read More >>

A People's Guide to Los Angeles

A People's Guide to Los Angeles

Author: Laura Pulido (University of Southern California) ,  Laura Barraclough
ISBN: 9781280781438
Format: Electronic book text
$158.14

A Peoples Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.s usual tourist destinations....  Read More >>

Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms

Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms...

Author: Vinayak Bharne (Sol Price School of Public Policy and School of Architecture at University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781283852340
Format: Electronic book text
$538.56

The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population...  Read More >>

Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity

Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age...

Author: Mariana Valverde
ISBN: 9780226921907
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Toronto prides itself on being the world's most diverse city, and its officials seek to support this diversity through...  Read More >>

Portraits of the City: Dublin and the Wider World

Portraits of the City: Dublin and the Wider World

Author: Gillian O'Brien ,  Finola O'Kane
ISBN: 9781846823466
Format: Hardback
$129.38

"Portraits of the City places Dublin at the center of a discussion about the significance of the historic urban...  Read More >>

Nachhaltige Stadt- und Verkehrsplanung: Grundlagen und Lösungsvorschläge

Nachhaltige Stadt- und Verkehrsplanung: Grundlagen und...

Author: Johannes Meyer
ISBN: 9783834824103
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Ausgehend von den Grundlagen des Städtebaus beschäftigt sich dieser Titel mit dem besonderen Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit...  Read More >>

Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation

Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development...

Author: Frank Salamone (Iona College, USA) ,  Erik Swyngedouw (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9780415516839
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Instead of a top-down approach, this book looks at the impact of bottom-up neighbourhood based initiatives. It analyses...  Read More >>

Remaking Metropolis: Global Challenges of the Urban Landscape

Remaking Metropolis: Global Challenges of the Urban...

Author: Edward A Cook (Arizona State University, USA) ,  Jesus J Lara (Ohio State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781283843065
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

Remaking Metropolis examines examples of both urban decay and destruction as well as urban rebirth. It shows why...  Read More >>

Transforming Asian Cities: Intellectual Impasse, Asianizing Space, and Emerging Translocalities

Transforming Asian Cities: Intellectual Impasse, Asianizing...

Author: Nihal Perera (College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, USA) ,  Professor Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781283846592
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum,...  Read More >>

City Cycling

City Cycling

Author: John Pucher ,  Ralph Buehler (Assistant Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech, Alexandria Center)
ISBN: 9780262517812
Format: Paperback
$92.40

A guide to today's urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling's health benefits, safety, bikes and bike...  Read More >>

Urban Areas and Global Climate Change

Urban Areas and Global Climate Change

Author: William Holt ,  Ray Hutchison
ISBN: 9781781900369
Format: Hardback
$282.95

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Learning, Innovation and Urban Evolution

Learning, Innovation and Urban Evolution

Author: David F. Batten ,  Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia
ISBN: 9781461370833
Format: Paperback
$448.77

In the global information society, innovation is a highly pervasive process that influences all facets of human...  Read More >>

Thinking Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City

Thinking Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City

Author: Edgar Illas (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ballantine Hall 875 (United States))
ISBN: 9781846318320
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A study of the ideological work that redefined Barcelona in the 1980s and adapted it to a new economy of tourism,...  Read More >>

Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City

Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First...

Author: D. Rodgers ,  J. Beall
ISBN: 9780230371545
Format: Hardback
$84.99

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume...  Read More >>

Remaking Metropolis: Global Challenges of the Urban Landscape

Remaking Metropolis: Global Challenges of the Urban...

Author: Edward Cook (Arizona State University, USA) ,  Jesus Lara
ISBN: 9780415670821
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Remaking Metropolis examines examples of both urban decay and destruction as well as urban rebirth. It shows why...  Read More >>

Industrial Ruination, Community and Place: Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline

Industrial Ruination, Community and Place: Landscapes...

Author: Alice Mah
ISBN: 9781442613577
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This rich comparative study makes an essential contribution to far-reaching debates about the decline of manufacturing,...  Read More >>

Why Cities Change

Why Cities Change

Author: Richard V Cardew ,  John V Langdale
ISBN: 9781283845359
Format: Electronic book text
$633.60

During the 1970s, accelerating change accompanied by dramatic developments in finance, technology and energy usage...  Read More >>

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