Urban communities books

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Planning, Markets and Rural Housing

Planning, Markets and Rural Housing

Author: Nick Gallent (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415688727
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book is an analysis of the key forces affecting the affordability of rural homes in Britain and the changing...  Read More >>

Agriculture in Urban Planning: Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

Agriculture in Urban Planning: Generating Livelihoods...

Author: Mark Redwood
ISBN: 9780415507363
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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

Why Don't American Cities Burn?

Why Don't American Cities Burn?

Author: Michael B. Katz
ISBN: 9780812243864
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics...  Read More >>

Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities

Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to Sustaining...

Author: Fritz Wagner, Dr. (University of Washington, USA) ,  Roger Caves (San Diego State University, USA)
ISBN: 9786613441577
Format: Electronic book text
$491.04

<p>What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do...  Read More >>

Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives

Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives

Author: Georg Glasze ,  Chris Webster (University of Cardiff, Wales)
ISBN: 9780415511407
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Contributed to, and edited by, an international team of leading authors, this revealing book constructs an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The Ever-Changing American City: 1945-Present

The Ever-Changing American City: 1945-Present

Author: John Bauman ,  Roger Biles
ISBN: 9786613362179
Format: Electronic book text
$155.21

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Cities of the World

Cities of the World

Author: Stanley D Brunn, PhD PhD PhD PhD PhD (University of Kentucky, USA)
ISBN: 9786613636713
Format: Electronic book text
$348.45

Remarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon...  Read More >>

Global Downtowns

Global Downtowns

Author: Marina Peterson ,  Gary McDonogh
ISBN: 9780812243840
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Global Downtowns weaves together rich cultural materials from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America...  Read More >>

Interfases. Hacia la disolución de fronteras urbanas

Interfases. Hacia la disolución de fronteras urbanas...

Author: Mejias Sedaile ,  Mejias Sedaile
ISBN: 9783846567562
Format: Paperback
$111.20

La Modernidad: proceso que encontró manifestaciones en todos los espacios posibles como el arte, la política, la...  Read More >>

The Making of Urban America

The Making of Urban America

Author: Raymond A. Mohl ,  Roger Biles
ISBN: 9780742552357
Format: Paperback
$89.95

This revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed...  Read More >>

Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960

Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial...

Author: Eric Leif Davin
ISBN: 9780739122396
Format: Paperback
$77.95

Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic...  Read More >>

Good Urbanism

Good Urbanism

Author: Nan Ellin
ISBN: 9780415806534
Format: Paperback
$79.07

We have the knowledge, the tools, and the will to make good places. Yet, the actual delivery of these places remains...  Read More >>

Steering Sustainability in an Urbanising World

Steering Sustainability in an Urbanising World

Author: Anitra Nelson
ISBN: 9781281332189
Format: Undefined
$356.27

This book approaches the key challenges of achieving urban sustainability in a holistic way. It brings together...  Read More >>

Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities

Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities...

Author: Roy Maconachie
ISBN: 9781281099013
Format: Undefined
$329.87

Peri-urban livelihood strategies have become an increasingly important survival mechanism in the context of rapid...  Read More >>

Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back

Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to...

Author: Peter J Marcotullio ,  Gordon McGranahan (International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED), UK)
ISBN: 9781280819179
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

?Think globally, act locally? emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not...  Read More >>

Fit

Fit

Author: Robert Geddes
ISBN: 9781283646147
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think...  Read More >>

Problems of an Urban Society: The Social Framework of Planning

Problems of an Urban Society: The Social Framework of...

Author: J B Cullingworth
ISBN: 9781283846325
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

This book provides a wide-ranging review of urban problems and constitutes a major contribution to the mounting...  Read More >>

Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007

Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on...

Author:
ISBN: 9781281191076
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and...  Read More >>

Punjabi Immigrant Mobility in the United States: Adaptation Through Race and Class

Punjabi Immigrant Mobility in the United States: Adaptation...

Author: Diditi Mitra
ISBN: 9781283868150
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

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The City

The City

Author: Emily Dawson
ISBN: 9781283545266
Format: Electronic book text
$64.02

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Urbanism and Urbanity

Urbanism and Urbanity

Author: Leigh Mercer
ISBN: 9781283847100
Format: Electronic book text
$197.97

Through the study of more than twenty novels produced in Spain from the 1840s to the 1920s, this book explores the...  Read More >>

Islamic Urbanism

Islamic Urbanism

Author: Sato
ISBN: 9781283839297
Format: Electronic book text
$792.00

Islamic cultures in the Middle East have inherited and developed a legacy of urbanism spanning millennia to the...  Read More >>

Empowering Metropolitan Regions Through New Forms of Cooperation

Empowering Metropolitan Regions Through New Forms of...

Author: Alexander Otgaar (Erasmus University, the Netherlands) ,  Carolien Speller
ISBN: 9781281208132
Format: Undefined
$356.27

This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European...  Read More >>

Vulnerability of Cities, The: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

Vulnerability of Cities, The: Natural Disasters and...

Author: Mark Pelling (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781280475634
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors...  Read More >>

Tuff City

Tuff City

Author: Nick Dines
ISBN: 9781280496646
Format: Electronic book text
$380.16

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