Urban communities books

Harold Washington s historic and improbable victory over the vaunted Chicago political machine shook up American...  Read More >>

Winston Churchill will be forever known as the great statesman who bravely led Britain through the war years, but...  Read More >>

Die Uberlegungen zur Neuen Region versuchen Entwicklungen in unserer Gesellschaft zu erfassen, die ein neues Niveau...  Read More >>

Focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are...  Read More >>

Were New Towns mainly utopias? Will they become pilot innovative cities? More than 30 years after their creation...  Read More >>

Mit diesem Buch legt der Autor die erste umfassende Untersuchung uber Geschichte und aktuelle Formationen der Pashtunen...  Read More >>

This book investigates the social construction and reconstruction of Tokunbo meanings and how these impact on...  Read More >>

Taking the break-up of the Soviet Union and the entry of Russia, China and India into the global market as the start...  Read More >>

In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger offers the first truely European account of Europe...  Read More >>

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One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment....  Read More >>

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A toolbox for housing justice, a guide to American property law, and the squatter-rebels that dot our landscape....  Read More >>

Inner cities in America remain concentrations of the uneducated, unemployed, underemployed, and unemployable, and...  Read More >>

After World War II, communes and cooperative communities became internationally oriented in their membership and...  Read More >>

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

Town and Gown is the story of the birth in the 1960s and survival through the 1970s of an inner city college, York...  Read More >>

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

"The relatively rapid and poorly regulated processes of urbanization in Latin America, linked in Colombia's case...  Read More >>

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989...  Read More >>

Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit...  Read More >>

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989...  Read More >>

Written for anyone interested in green development-including policy makers, architects, developers, builders, and...  Read More >>

This is a comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how...  Read More >>