Urban communities books

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Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope...

Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9780770435677
Format: Paperback
$42.24

In this national bestseller, now in paperback, the acclaimed author of Savage Inequalities recounts the lessons...  Read More >>

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9780770435684
Format: Paperback
$50.16

A National Book Award-winning author presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning...  Read More >>

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City

Author: Jan Rath (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415514019
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Informative and enlightening, Rath fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban...  Read More >>

Urban Growth Analysis and Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Kolkata, India 1980–2010

Urban Growth Analysis and Remote Sensing: A Case Study...

Author: Basudeb Bhatta
ISBN: 9789400746978
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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Community Conversations: Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People

Community Conversations: Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills,...

Author: Paul Born
ISBN: 9781927483152
Format: Paperback
$25.75

Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions...  Read More >>

The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

Author: Vania Ceccato
ISBN: 9789400742093
Format: Hardback
$336.35

With global case studies, this book traces the interplay between crime, and the fear of crime, and the wider urban...  Read More >>

Small City on a Big Couch: A Psychoanalysis of a Provincial Mexican City

Small City on a Big Couch: A Psychoanalysis of a Provincial...

Author:
ISBN: 9781283542982
Format: Electronic book text
$120.12

This book psychoanalyzes a small Mexican city to figure out how the city makes sense of both herself and her many...  Read More >>

Making Cities Liveable with Community Planning

Making Cities Liveable with Community Planning

Author: Peter Davey
ISBN: 9783846558751
Format: Paperback
$175.95

The furious pace of global urbanisation has serious impacts on the long-term sustainability and health of the local...  Read More >>

Racial Ambivalence in Diverse Communities: Whiteness and the Power of Color-Blind Ideologies

Racial Ambivalence in Diverse Communities: Whiteness...

Author: Meghan A. Burke
ISBN: 9780739166673
Format: Hardback
$129.95

This provocative ethnography reveals how pervasive color-blind ideology remains even among pro-diversity liberals...  Read More >>

Transnationalism and Urbanism

Transnationalism and Urbanism

Author: Stefan Krätke (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany) ,  Kathrin Wildner (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany)
ISBN: 9780415898638
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume gathers a global array of scholars from a range of disciplines - geography, ethnography, urban planning...  Read More >>

Urban Housing Policy

Urban Housing Policy

Author: William G. Grigsby ,  Louis Rosenburg
ISBN: 9781412848442
Format: Paperback
$92.99

For as long as statistics record, housing conditions in the United States have been improving  Read More >>

The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico

The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community...

Author: Jon Shefner (University of Tennesse-Knoxville)
ISBN: 9780271033853
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Addresses the success and failures of the Union de Colonos Independientes (UCI), a community organization in Guadalajara,...  Read More >>

The New Century of the Metropolis: Urban Enclaves and Orientalism

The New Century of the Metropolis: Urban Enclaves and...

Author: Tom Angotti (Hunter College, City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9780415615105
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse...  Read More >>

Looking Beyond Suppression: Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence

Looking Beyond Suppression: Community Strategies to...

Author: Erika Gebo ,  Brenda J Bond
ISBN: 9781280699764
Format: Electronic book text
$104.52

This edited book significantly contributes to the knowledge on how to address gang problems from a broad community...  Read More >>

Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing

Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction...

Author: A. Schutz ,  M. Sandy
ISBN: 9780230111257
Format: Paperback
$169.00

Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. Sandy draw on their extensive...  Read More >>

The New Century of the Metropolis: Urban Enclaves and Orientalism

The New Century of the Metropolis: Urban Enclaves and...

Author: Tom Angotti (Hunter College, City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9780415615099
Format: Hardback
$368.00

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse...  Read More >>

Cultural Hybridity: Contradictions and Dilemmas

Cultural Hybridity: Contradictions and Dilemmas

Author: Kwok-Bun Chan
ISBN: 9780415697989
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The City and the Ocean: Journeys, Memory, Imagination

The City and the Ocean: Journeys, Memory, Imagination...

Author: I-Chun Wang ,  Jonathan White
ISBN: 9781443837194
Format: Hardback
$103.47

Throughout history cities have been locations of human encounter. Equally they have been contexts for the trade...  Read More >>

Anthropology in the City

Anthropology in the City

Author: Italo Pardo (University of Kent, Canterbury) ,  Giuliana B Prato
ISBN: 9786613718174
Format: Electronic book text
$364.16

With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming...  Read More >>

Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions

Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions

Author: Neil Reid ,  Jay D Gatrell
ISBN: 9786613718280
Format: Electronic book text
$332.48

In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in local food systems-among policy makers, planners, and...  Read More >>

Designing Safe Road Systems

Designing Safe Road Systems

Author: Jan Theeuwes ,  Richard Van Der Horst
ISBN: 9786613718365
Format: Electronic book text
$316.64

Many books focus on individual differences and how those relate to traffic safety such as accident proneness, gender...  Read More >>

Urban Informalities

Urban Informalities

Author: Colin McFarlane (Durham University, UK) ,  Michael Waibel, LL. LL. LL. LL. LL. (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9786613654489
Format: Electronic book text
$316.64

This book produced by a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers working on a wide variety of cities...  Read More >>

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