Urban communities books

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Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Author: Andrew Deener
ISBN: 9786613655196
Format: Electronic book text
$285.12

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions....  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: 9786613691828
Format: Electronic book text
$88.55

A guide to Los Angeles that offers an assortment of alternatives to LA's usual tourist destinations. It documents...  Read More >>

Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change

Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and...

Author: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (University of New South Wales, Australia) ,  Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415536707
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Cultural analysts, social scientists, and media scholars explore the ways in which cities generate competing visions...  Read More >>

The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City

The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies...

Author: John D. Fairfield
ISBN: 9781439902110
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus...  Read More >>

Urban Theory Beyond the West

Urban Theory Beyond the West

Author: Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Mark Jayne (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781283851190
Format: Electronic book text
$506.88

<p>Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial...  Read More >>

Urban Geography

Urban Geography

Author: Tim Hall ,  Heather Barrett
ISBN: 9781136647369
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

This text introduces both traditional and contemporary approaches and perspectives in urban geography. It explores...  Read More >>

Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945

Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and...

Author: Jennifer Guglielmo
ISBN: 9780807872246
Format: Paperback
$99.00

Reveals the vibrant, transnational, and multiethnic world of working-class women's politics. This title presents...  Read More >>

Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples

Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central...

Author: Nick Dines
ISBN: 9780857452795
Format: Hardback
$170.00

During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor,...  Read More >>

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

Author: Jonathan Soffer
ISBN: 9780231150330
Format: Paperback
$40.95

"In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end...  Read More >>

Urban Developments in Brazil & Portugal

Urban Developments in Brazil & Portugal

Author: Márcio Moraes Valença ,  Fernanda Cravidão
ISBN: 9781614708926
Format: Hardback
$567.60

Several themes and perspectives are reunited under this collection of texts about urban developments in the Portuguese-speaking...  Read More >>

In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City,...

Author: Peter C. Baldwin
ISBN: 9780226036021
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting...  Read More >>

Working–Class Suburb: Social Change on an English Council Estate, 1930–2010

Working–Class Suburb: Social Change on an English Council...

Author: Mark Clapson ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719079511
Format: Hardback
$183.99

An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not...  Read More >>

No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans

No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans...

Author: Michael S Barr (University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9786613531568
Format: Electronic book text
$110.72

<p>The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income...  Read More >>

Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform

Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New...

Author: Maria Hantzopoulos ,  Alia R. Tyner
ISBN: 9781617356834
Format: Paperback
$146.89

Features the most current empirical research about the successes and challenges of the small schools movement and...  Read More >>

Future Asia Space: Projecting the Urban Space of New East Asia

Future Asia Space: Projecting the Urban Space of New...

Author: Limin Hee ,  Davisi Boontharm
ISBN: 9789971695965
Format: Paperback
$67.15

"The idea of """"Asian space"""" is undergoing a transformation as a result of rapid technological, economic, social...  Read More >>

Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World

Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making...

Author: Greg Bankoff ,  Uwe Lübken
ISBN: 9780299283841
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant...  Read More >>

From Blacks to Brown and Beyond: The Struggle for Progressive Politics in Oakland, California, 1966-2011

From Blacks to Brown and Beyond: The Struggle for Progressive...

Author: Robert Stanley Oden
ISBN: 9781609272456
Format: Paperback
$218.99

Presents a case study of city politics in Oakland, California. This book spans the time period from the formation...  Read More >>

The Social Infrastructure of City Life in Contemporary Africa

The Social Infrastructure of City Life in Contemporary...

Author: Abdoumaliq Simone
ISBN: 9789171066787
Format: Paperback
$36.96

The growth of cities is one of the most significant aspects of the contemporary transformation of African societies....  Read More >>

Seven Themes in African Urban Dynamics

Seven Themes in African Urban Dynamics

Author: Garth Andrew Myers
ISBN: 9789171066770
Format: Paperback
$36.96

The growth of cities is one of the most significant aspects of the contemporary transformation of African societies....  Read More >>

Stadtmarketing und kommunales Audit: Chance für eine ganzheitliche Stadtentwicklung

Stadtmarketing und kommunales Audit: Chance für eine...

Author: Herbert Pfaff-Schley
ISBN: 9783642645556
Format: Paperback
$211.17

Heute wird unter dem Begriff eher ein umfassendes Konzept verstanden, das weniger die Werbung für die Stadt in den...  Read More >>

Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class

Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class

Author: Jerome Krase ,  Italo Pardo
ISBN: 9781409428787
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives

Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative...

Author: Tüzin Baycan ,  Luigi Fusco Girard
ISBN: 9781409420019
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial...  Read More >>

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