Urban communities books

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Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools

Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban...

Author: Angela Calabrese Barton ,  Edna Tan
ISBN: 9781282166455
Format: Undefined
$198.00

Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the...  Read More >>

Modelling the City: Performance, Policy and Planning

Modelling the City: Performance, Policy and Planning...

Author: Policy And Performance ,  C S Bertuglia
ISBN: 9781282816367
Format: Electronic book text
$617.76

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development

Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development...

Author: David Marcouiller ,  Owen Furuseth
ISBN: 9781282948211
Format: Undefined
$356.27

Rural America is undergoing a dramatic and sustained post-industrial economic transition. This book draws on contemporary...  Read More >>

Strategic Planning for Contemporary Urban Regions

Strategic Planning for Contemporary Urban Regions

Author: Alessandro Balducci ,  Valeria Fedeli
ISBN: 9781283115285
Format: Undefined
$303.47

In 2005, the Provincial Administration of Milan and a group of researchers from the city's polytechnic developed...  Read More >>

Hard Truth: Problems and Issues in Urban School Reform

Hard Truth: Problems and Issues in Urban School Reform...

Author: Sean Yisrael
ISBN: 9781283640060
Format: Electronic book text
$44.85

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Resilience & the City

Resilience & the City

Author: Peter Rogers (Co-director of Spinal Injection Clinic; Clinical Instructor in Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, Loyola Medical School)
ISBN: 9781283629300
Format: Undefined
$303.47

Following the turbulent events of the first few years of the 21st century, the growth of new security and disaster...  Read More >>

Company Towns: Labor, Space, and Power Relations Across Time and Continents

Company Towns: Labor, Space, and Power Relations Across...

Author: Marcelo J Borges ,  Susana B Torres
ISBN: 9781283641272
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion...  Read More >>

Peri-Urban Interface, The: Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

Peri-Urban Interface, The: Approaches to Sustainable...

Author: Duncan McGregor ,  David Simon, MD (Colby College, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781282789241
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans...  Read More >>

Gender, Work and Community After de-Industrialisation: A Psychosocial Approach to Affect

Gender, Work and Community After de-Industrialisation:...

Author: Valerie Walkerdine (all at Goldsmith's College, London Professor of Critical Psychology Professor of Critical Psychology Professor of Critical Psychology) ,  Dr Luis Jimenez
ISBN: 9781283440080
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last...  Read More >>

Culture and Planning

Culture and Planning

Author: Simone Abram
ISBN: 9781283235273
Format: Undefined
$303.47

Examines culture as a socio-historical concept, introducing a line of scholarship to show what 'culture' does and...  Read More >>

American Urban Form: A Representative History

American Urban Form: A Representative History

Author: Sam Bass Warner, Jr. ,  Andrew H Whittemore
ISBN: 9781280499135
Format: Electronic book text
$39.47

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

Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to Sustaining...

Author: Fritz Wagner (University of Washington, USA) ,  Roger Caves (San Diego State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781283441575
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

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

Material Geographies of Household Sustainability

Material Geographies of Household Sustainability

Author: Ruth Lane ,  Andrew Gorman-Murray
ISBN: 9781283047708
Format: Undefined
$329.87

Constructing a series of imperatives for linking culturally informed research around household sustainability with...  Read More >>

Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Growth in China

Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Growth in China...

Author: Lei Wang
ISBN: 9781283128766
Format: Undefined
$303.47

Presents an institutional explanation of the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China. This title argues...  Read More >>

Creative Knowledge Cities

Creative Knowledge Cities

Author: M Nijkamp Van Geenhuizen, P.
ISBN: 9781280492662
Format: Undefined
$541.20

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Architect Knows Best

Architect Knows Best

Author: Mr Simon Richards
ISBN: 9781280677854
Format: Undefined
$303.47

The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modern'...  Read More >>

The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs

The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang...

Author: Josephine Metcalf
ISBN: 9781280781902
Format: Electronic book text
$145.20

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Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985 2005

Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985 2005

Author: Nikolai Genov (Berlin Free University, Germany) ,  Jamshed Ahmed
ISBN: 9781282785861
Format: Undefined
$409.07

Most studies on urbanisation in developing countries concentrate on slums and shanty towns in isolation from the...  Read More >>

Risk Habitat Megacity

Risk Habitat Megacity

Author: Dirk Heinrichs ,  Kerstin Krellenberg
ISBN: 9781283368506
Format: Undefined
$498.96

Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing...  Read More >>

Post-Cosmopolitan Cities

Post-Cosmopolitan Cities

Author: Caroline Humphrey ,  Vera Skvirskaja
ISBN: 9781283655637
Format: Electronic book text
$380.16

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Urban Social Capital

Urban Social Capital

Author: Joseph D Lewandowski, Professor ,  Gregory W Streich, Professor
ISBN: 9781280570698
Format: Undefined
$369.47

This volume presents a kaleidoscopic view of the norms and forms of contemporary city life, focusing especially...  Read More >>

Democracy Deferred: Civic Leadership After 9/11

Democracy Deferred: Civic Leadership After 9/11

Author: David W Woods
ISBN: 9781280680571
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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