Urban communities books

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Global Cities and Networks for Global Environmental Governance: Spaces of Innovation, Places of Leadership

Global Cities and Networks for Global Environmental...

Author: Sofie Bouteligier (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781283894012
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

As a result of global dynamics the increasing interconnection of people and places innovations in global environmental...  Read More >>

City

City

Author: William H Whyte
ISBN: 9781283898270
Format: Undefined
$65.87

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China's Urban Billion

China's Urban Billion

Author: Tom Miller
ISBN: 9781283754637
Format: Electronic book text
$332.51

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Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment

Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and...

Author: Professor of Art History and Sociology Anthony D King (State University of New York, Binghamton)
ISBN: 9781283886864
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development...  Read More >>

The Creative Capital of Cities: Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation

The Creative Capital of Cities: Interactive Knowledge...

Author: Stefan Tke
ISBN: 9781283915540
Format: Electronic book text
$237.47

This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical...  Read More >>

School Social Work Services in Federally Funded Programs

School Social Work Services in Federally Funded Programs...

Author: Hope M Bland ,  Ashraf Esmail
ISBN: 9781283940443
Format: Electronic book text
$79.17

Focusing on the barriers between social work intervention in education and government funded programs that impact...  Read More >>

Asphalt Nation

Asphalt Nation

Author: Jane Holtz Kay
ISBN: 9781299050310
Format: Electronic book text
$217.80

Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and...  Read More >>

Fire in the Ashes

Fire in the Ashes

Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9781299102231
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan...  Read More >>

Ordinary Resurrections

Ordinary Resurrections

Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9781299041721
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

The author offers his personal take on America's poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, recalling the lessons he...  Read More >>

St. Clair

St. Clair

Author: Anthony Wallace
ISBN: 9781299046542
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

Located near the southern edge of the Pennsylvania anthracite, the town of St. Clair in the early half of the 19th...  Read More >>

Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

Great Inversion and the Future of the American City...

Author: Alan Ehrenhalt
ISBN: 9781299083967
Format: Electronic book text
$134.24

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Right to the City

Right to the City

Author: Don Mitchell
ISBN: 9781283925181
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American...  Read More >>

Pushing Back the Gates

Pushing Back the Gates

Author: Harley F Etienne
ISBN: 9781299834033
Format: Electronic book text
$157.08

As college and university administrators expand and develop their urban campuses, they have also become developers...  Read More >>

Changing Polish Identities: Post-War and Post-Accession Polish Migrants in Manchester

Changing Polish Identities: Post-War and Post-Accession...

Author: Agnieszka Bielewska
ISBN: 9781299426078
Format: Electronic book text
$171.47

Discusses how globalization transforms national identity, comparing the assertion that globalization disembeds national...  Read More >>

Das Konzept Der Idealen Metropole in Theorie Und Praxis Am Beispiel Von Berlin, Das

Das Konzept Der Idealen Metropole in Theorie Und Praxis...

Author: Majken Bieniok
ISBN: 9781299428010
Format: Electronic book text
$145.07

Im Zuge der Globalisierung andern sich die vielfaltigen urbanen Lebensbedingungen kontinuierlich, wodurch der Bedarf...  Read More >>

Germany's Creative Sector and Its Impact on Employment Growth: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach to the Fuzzy Concept of Creativity: Richard Florida's Arguments Reconsidered

Germany's Creative Sector and Its Impact on Employment...

Author: Jan Wedemeier
ISBN: 9781299435056
Format: Electronic book text
$129.23

Using a fixed effects model with time-lags, evidence is found that the creative sector fosters the growth rate of...  Read More >>

Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field

Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical...

Author: Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
ISBN: 9781299915862
Format: Undefined
$237.60

Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe...  Read More >>

La Negociation Dans Les Projets Urbains de Tramway: Elements Pour Une Sociologie de La - Ville Durable -

La Negociation Dans Les Projets Urbains de Tramway:...

Author: Philippe Hamman ,  C Frank
ISBN: 9781299434554
Format: Electronic book text
$134.51

Qu est-ce qu une - ville durable - ? Comment se construit-elle collectivement ? Alors que la thematique de la -...  Read More >>

Local Protests, Global Movements

Local Protests, Global Movements

Author: Karl Beitel
ISBN: 9781299532854
Format: Electronic book text
$209.88

A history of the antigentrification and housing rights movement in San Francisco, Local Protests, Global Movements...  Read More >>

City and the Ocean: Journeys, Memory, Imagination

City and the Ocean: Journeys, Memory, Imagination

Author: Jonathan White (University of Derby, UK) ,  I-Chun Wang
ISBN: 9781299647886
Format: Electronic book text
$190.50

Throughout history cities have been locations of human encounter. Equally they have been contexts for the trade...  Read More >>

Tennessee

Tennessee

Author: Rosann Semchuk ,  Rosann Semchuk
ISBN: 9781306125383
Format: Electronic book text
$71.62

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Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

Author: Giovanna Sonda ,  Claudio Coletta
ISBN: 9781306149259
Format: Undefined
$329.87

By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban...  Read More >>

London Underworld in the Victorian Period, The: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes

London Underworld in the Victorian Period, The: Authentic...

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781306340823
Format: Undefined
$47.39

The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey features true...  Read More >>

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