Urban communities books

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Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City

Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space...

Author: Sonia A. Hirt (Virginia Tech, USA)
ISBN: 9781444338263
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Iron Curtains explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.  Read More >>

Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City

Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space...

Author: Sonia A. Hirt (Virginia Tech, USA)
ISBN: 9781444338270
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Iron Curtains explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.  Read More >>

Cities in Globalization: Practices, Policies and Theories

Cities in Globalization: Practices, Policies and Theories...

Author: Peter Taylor (University of Loughborough, UK) ,  Ben Derudder (Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9780415512602
Format: Paperback
$114.00

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City

The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration,...

Author: Judith DeSena ,  Noel S. Anderson
ISBN: 9780739166703
Format: Hardback
$179.95

The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly...  Read More >>

Ribbin' Jivin' and Playin' The Dozens: The Persistent Dilemma in our Schools

Ribbin' Jivin' and Playin' The Dozens: The Persistent...

Author: Herbert L Foster
ISBN: 9780962484704
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Every six months or so, a study reports about our inability to educate black males. Yet, after reading Ribbin',...  Read More >>

Urban Spaces after Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities

Urban Spaces after Socialism: Ethnographies of Public...

Author: Tsypylma Darieva ,  Wolfgang Kaschuba
ISBN: 9783593393841
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Presenting case studies from Tashkent, Yerevan, Gumri, St Petersburg, Tbilisi, Baku, and Osh, this book examines...  Read More >>

Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past

Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming...

Author: Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
ISBN: 9780415690706
Format: Hardback
$378.00

As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation's most celebrated traditions, the city of...  Read More >>

Local Protests, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco

Local Protests, Global Movements: Capital, Community,...

Author: Karl Beitel
ISBN: 9781439909942
Format: Hardback
$215.16

How San Francisco's housing protest movements help us understand global mobilization  Read More >>

Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg

Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion...

Author: Jo Beall (Director, Education and Society at the British Council London School of Economics, UK London School of Economics, UK London School of Economics, UK) ,  Owen Crankshaw
ISBN: 9781280475795
Format: Electronic book text
$538.56

Decision-makers in cities worldwide have attempted to balance harsh fiscal and administrative realities with growing...  Read More >>

Ungeplante Stadtentwicklung durch Migration am Beispiel von Istanbul

Ungeplante Stadtentwicklung durch Migration am Beispiel...

Author: Marlene Ringhofer
ISBN: 9783639391794
Format: Paperback
$126.71

"Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den Zusammenhang zwischen den sozialen Strukturen und der physischen Form der Stadt...  Read More >>

National Evils and Practical Remedies: With a Plan for a Model Town

National Evils and Practical Remedies: With a Plan for...

Author: James Silk Buckingham
ISBN: 9781139095235
Format: Undefined
$224.40

James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855) was a Cornish-born traveller, writer and member of Parliament. In this work, published...  Read More >>

Why Education Has Failed: A Teacher's Cartharsis

Why Education Has Failed: A Teacher's Cartharsis

Author: Jose Miguel Gallego ,  Dr Jose Miguel Gallego
ISBN: 9781470142339
Format: Paperback
$23.63

Why Education Has Failed: A Teacher's Catharsis was inspired by my time as a special education teacher teaching...  Read More >>

The Random Thoughts of The Black Feminista

The Random Thoughts of The Black Feminista

Author: Kathy M Henry
ISBN: 9781466225268
Format: Paperback
$30.31

I am a woman. I am an African-American. Belonging to two minorities has shaped my viewpoint on life in more ways...  Read More >>

City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave...

Author: Gary Krist ,  Rob Shapiro
ISBN: 9780307917744
Format: Downloadable audio file
$225.72

Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling...  Read More >>

The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China

The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and...

Author: You-tien Hsing (, Associate Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780199644599
Format: Paperback
$97.95

As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban...  Read More >>

Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis...

Author: Pamela S. Showalter ,  Yongmei Lu
ISBN: 9789400730847
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented...  Read More >>

Creative Regions: Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship

Creative Regions: Technology, Culture and Knowledge...

Author: Philip Cooke ,  Dafna Schwartz
ISBN: 9780415541145
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Creative Regions is an essential reading on how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge...  Read More >>

Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-Socialist City

Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space...

Author: Sonia A Hirt (Virginia Tech, USA)
ISBN: 9786613628930
Format: Electronic book text
$284.96

Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization...  Read More >>

Liveable Cities: Urbanising World: ISOCARP 07

Liveable Cities: Urbanising World: ISOCARP 07

Author: Chris Gossop ,  Shi Nan
ISBN: 9780415509565
Format: Paperback
$116.00

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Kommunale Kriminalprävention

Kommunale Kriminalprävention

Author: Karen Franke ,  Monika Schneiders
ISBN: 9783639391114
Format: Paperback
$191.14

Inhaltlich unveränderte Neuauflage. Wie gestaltet man Kriminalprävention auf kommunaler Ebe-ne effek-tiv? Wel-che...  Read More >>

Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship: Bridging the Territorial and Functional Rationales

Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship: Bridging...

Author: Bengt Johannisson ,  Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand
ISBN: 9780415699853
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The basic message of the book is that coping with global challenges in an entrepreneurial way calls for the making...  Read More >>

This Rock In My Heart

This Rock In My Heart

Author: Tommie Vaughn
ISBN: 9798858615378
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"They say only time will heal a broken heart but Frankie Spencer proves that theory wrong. Music was her guide,...  Read More >>

Pavements in the Garden

Pavements in the Garden

Author: Ann Marie T Cammarota ,  Anne Marie T Cammarota
ISBN: 9780838638811
Format: Hardback
$122.76

This is the first book to evaluate the history of the suburbanization of Southern New Jersey, adjacent to the City...  Read More >>

Cities Reducing Poverty

Cities Reducing Poverty

Author: Mark Cabaj
ISBN: 9786613582713
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

This book explores the efforts of collaborative groups in six different Canadian cities as they work to reduce poverty,...  Read More >>

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