Urban communities books

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Making Los Angeles: How People Create Place Out of Ordinary Urban Space

Making Los Angeles: How People Create Place Out of Ordinary...

Author: Christopher D. Campbell
ISBN: 9781594513497
Format: Hardback
$282.48

Looks at how people construct a sense of place out of ordinary urban space, based on a study of Los Angeles.  Read More >>

Sin plaza para los Desplazados

Sin plaza para los Desplazados

Author: Valencia Giraldo Víctor Hugo ,  V Ctor Hugo Valencia Giraldo
ISBN: 9783845481999
Format: Paperback
$193.88

"Las terribles consecuencias del desarraigo sufrido por los más de 6 millones de desplazados que hoy tienen Colombia...  Read More >>

Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City

Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City

Author: Warren Magnusson (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415782418
Format: Hardback
$305.00

"The central argument of this book is that we need to abandon our state-centric approach to political understanding...  Read More >>

The Growth of Non-Western Cities: Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900–1900

The Growth of Non-Western Cities: Primary and Secondary...

Author: Kenneth R. Hall ,  Christopher Agnew
ISBN: 9780739149997
Format: Paperback
$64.95

These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman...  Read More >>

Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage

Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage...

Author: Colin McFarlane (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9781405192811
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge,...  Read More >>

A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition

A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition

Author: C K Yang
ISBN: 9781258103088
Format: Hardback
$87.33

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary Edition)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary...

Author: Jane Jacobs ,  Donna Rawlins
ISBN: 9780307969897
Format: Audio
$132.00

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York...  Read More >>

The Growth of Non-Western Cities: Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900–1900

The Growth of Non-Western Cities: Primary and Secondary...

Author: Kenneth R. Hall ,  Christopher Agnew
ISBN: 9780739149980
Format: Hardback
$162.95

These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman...  Read More >>

Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage

Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage...

Author: Colin McFarlane (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9781405192828
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge,...  Read More >>

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities

Author: Witold Rybczynski
ISBN: 9781416561262
Format: Paperback
$44.85

This striking new work about the evolution of urban planning in America is from acclaimed author Rybczynski.  Read More >>

Globalizing Areas, Kulturelle Flexionen Und Die Herausforderung Der Geisteswissenschaften

Globalizing Areas, Kulturelle Flexionen Und Die Herausforderung...

Author: Markus A Denzel ,  Gunther Heeg
ISBN: 9783515099226
Format: Paperback
$174.24

English summary: The dynamics of globalization places before all the societies of the world the complex challenges...  Read More >>

Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory

Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research,...

Author: Łukasz Stanek
ISBN: 9780816666171
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology....  Read More >>

Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

Author: Karen Tongson
ISBN: 9780814783108
Format: Paperback
$64.99

An exploration of the suburban gay community in America  Read More >>

Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory

Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research,...

Author: Łukasz Stanek
ISBN: 9780816666164
Format: Hardback
$134.99

Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology....  Read More >>

Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

Author: Karen Tongson
ISBN: 9780814783092
Format: Hardback
$184.00

An exploration of the suburban gay community in America  Read More >>

Transformaciones de la vida urbana argentina a finales del siglo XX

Transformaciones de la vida urbana argentina a finales...

Author: Barreto Miguel Angel ,  Barreto Miguel Angel
ISBN: 9783845482804
Format: Paperback
$225.24

A partir de la observación de la vida urbana de dos ciudades del nordeste argentino (Posadas y Resistencia), que...  Read More >>

Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century

Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth...

Author: Dorothee Brantz ,  Sonja Dumpelmann
ISBN: 9780813931142
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Our green spaces offer a unique and valuable window on the history of city life. The essays in Greening the City...  Read More >>

Master-Planned Communities: Lessons from the Developments of Chuck Cobb

Master-Planned Communities: Lessons from the Developments...

Author: Kalvin Platt
ISBN: 9780874201611
Format: Hardback
$232.19

Describing a wide range of communities, this record offers practical information for sustainability-oriented developers...  Read More >>

The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence

The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence...

Author: William M. Rohe
ISBN: 9780812243437
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Over the past three decades, the economy of North Carolina's Research Triangle has been transformed from one dependent...  Read More >>

The Just City

The Just City

Author: Susan S. Fainstein ,  Professor Susan S Fainstein
ISBN: 9780801476907
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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As Bad as They Say?: Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx

As Bad as They Say?: Three Decades of Teaching in the...

Author: Janet Grossbach Mayer (Home Instructor Port Jervis NY)
ISBN: 9780823240814
Format: Undefined
$277.20

A riveting story about the resiliency of Bronx high school students through the eyes of a passionate and dedicated...  Read More >>

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