Urban communities books

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Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space

Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation...

Author: Ronald Shiffman ,  Rick Bell
ISBN: 9781613320099
Format: Paperback
$43.99

In the wake of the Occupy movement, leading planners and social scientists examine public space today and freedom...  Read More >>

Hispanic Migration and Urban Development: Studies from Washington DC

Hispanic Migration and Urban Development: Studies from...

Author: Enrique S. Pumar ,  Donald Cunnigen
ISBN: 9781780523446
Format: Hardback
$238.95

Analyzes the pattern of assimilation and incorporation among the Hispanic population in the Washington DC metro...  Read More >>

Federation Square Melbourne: The First Ten Years

Federation Square Melbourne: The First Ten Years

Author: Seamus O'Hanlon
ISBN: 9781921867668
Format: Paperback
$29.95

After a somewhat difficult gestation and birth, Melbourne's Federation Square turns ten in October 2012. This book...  Read More >>

Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth?

Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth?

Author: Gary Bridge (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol) ,  Tim Butler (Department of Geography, King''s College London)
ISBN: 9781847424921
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies...  Read More >>

Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space

Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation...

Author: Ronald Shiffman ,  Rick Bell
ISBN: 9781613320556
Format: Hardback
$193.00

In the wake of the Occupy movement, leading planners and social scientists examine public space today and freedom...  Read More >>

Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

Author: Ivor L Miller ,  Robert Farris Thompson
ISBN: 9781617036774
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Eurasian Cities: Rethinking Cities along the Silk Road

Eurasian Cities: Rethinking Cities along the Silk Road...

Author: Souleymane Coulibaly ,  Uwe Deichmann
ISBN: 9780821395813
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This report responds to pressing questions for policymakers in Eurasian cities and national governments. Faced with...  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) ,  Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780415507387
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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

Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870

Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia,...

Author: Michael J. Gagnon
ISBN: 9780807145081
Format: Hardback
$129.23

Using Athens as a case study, Michael Gagnon suggests that the connected networks of family, business, and financial...  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) ,  Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780415507394
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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

Holes In The Whole – Introduction to the Urban Revolutions

Holes In The Whole – Introduction to the Urban Revolutions...

Author: Krzysztof Nawratek
ISBN: 9781780993751
Format: Paperback
$25.85

This book seeks meaning and reasons for the existence of the city. It demonstrates the urgent need to define the...  Read More >>

The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms

The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms...

Author: Vinayak Bharne
ISBN: 9780415525985
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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

Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi

Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi

Author: Steve Inskeep
ISBN: 9780143122166
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"""Morning Edition"" cohost Inskeep presents a riveting account of a single harrowing day in December 2009 that...  Read More >>

British Asian Muslim Women, Multiple Spatialities and Cosmopolitanism

British Asian Muslim Women, Multiple Spatialities and...

Author: F. Bhimji
ISBN: 9781137013866
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book analyzes the cosmopolitan lives of British Asian Muslim women. Drawing on interview and online data, the...  Read More >>

The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms

The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms...

Author: Vinayak Bharne
ISBN: 9780415525978
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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

Ethnography and the City

Ethnography and the City

Author: Richard E Ocejo (John Jay College, CUNY John Jay College, CUNY, USA)
ISBN: 9781283842389
Format: Electronic book text
$506.88

<p>The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban...  Read More >>

Fortalecimiento y Revaloracion de La Produccion de Maiz Criollo

Fortalecimiento y Revaloracion de La Produccion de Maiz...

Author: Diaz Anguiano Amanda Yaollin ,  Santos Cristobal
ISBN: 9783848457403
Format: Paperback
$99.20

El objetivo de la investigación fue, comprender la importancia de la producción de maíz criollo en las estrategias...  Read More >>

Irish Music Abroad: Diasporic Sounds in Birmingham

Irish Music Abroad: Diasporic Sounds in Birmingham

Author: Angela Moran
ISBN: 9781443840378
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional...  Read More >>

Hope in the Urban Schools: Love Stories

Hope in the Urban Schools: Love Stories

Author: Cara Churchich-Riggs
ISBN: 9781618977229
Format: Paperback
$26.39

"Hope in the Urban Schools: Love Stories explores the school life of urban students. With the current political...  Read More >>

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime...

Author: Barbara Pezzotti
ISBN: 9781611475524
Format: Hardback
$136.95

An analysis of the relationship between detective fiction and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination...  Read More >>

Walkers, Voyeurs, and the Politics of Urban Space

Walkers, Voyeurs, and the Politics of Urban Space

Author: Daniel J. Walkowitz ,  Robin Autry
ISBN: 9780822367796
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Walking, seeing, and being seen in the city - as voyeur or as the subject of surveillance - have a long and contested...  Read More >>

Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border

Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border...

Author: Josh Kun ,  Fiamma Montezemolo
ISBN: 9780822352907
Format: Paperback
$62.07

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