Urban communities books

18342 books were found.

The short guide to community development

The short guide to community development

Author: Alison Gilchrist ,  Marilyn Taylor
ISBN: 9781847426895
Format: Paperback
$52.80

This accessibly written guide provides an introduction to the origins and current trends in community development....  Read More >>

London's Burning: Een exploratie in de punk subkultuur

London's Burning: Een exploratie in de punk subkultuur...

Author: Hans Versluys
ISBN: 9781461168263
Format: Paperback
$18.45

"Nederlandstalige versie van ""London's Burning: An Exploration in Punk Subculture"" (ISBN 978-1456435660).Eindverhandeling...  Read More >>

On The Grid

On The Grid

Author: Scott Huler
ISBN: 9781609611385
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Turn on a switch and from the nearest bulb out pours light from . . . somewhere; turn on a faucet and water appears....  Read More >>

Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia

Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South...

Author: Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ,  Colin McFarlane
ISBN: 9780415617604
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban...  Read More >>

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian...

Author: Letizia Modena (Villanova University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415880381
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and...  Read More >>

Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities

Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role...

Author: Alan Southern
ISBN: 9780415458153
Format: Hardback
$215.00

Enterprise and Development seeks to challenge the notion that enterprise can address the complexity that underlies...  Read More >>

Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing

Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction...

Author: A. Schutz ,  M. Sandy
ISBN: 9780230105379
Format: Hardback
$227.95

Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. Sandy draw on their extensive...  Read More >>

Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being...

Author: Ananya Roy (University of California, Berkeley, USA) ,  Ong Aihwa
ISBN: 9786613178282
Format: Electronic book text
$284.96

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different...  Read More >>

renovatio urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II

renovatio urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony...

Author: Nicholas Temple (University of Huddersfield, UK)
ISBN: 9780415473859
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503–13) this book...  Read More >>

Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity

Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity

Author: Erez Tzfadia (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) ,  Haim Yacobi (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
ISBN: 9780415573245
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines the issue of Israeli space and in particular looks at cities, suburbs, development towns and...  Read More >>

London's Burning: An Exploration in Punk Subculture

London's Burning: An Exploration in Punk Subculture...

Author: Hans Versluys
ISBN: 9781456435660
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Thesis written in 1980 for my BA in Sociology at the University of Antwerpen, Belgium, on punk subculture. Previously...  Read More >>

The Great Filth: Disease, Death and the Victorian City

The Great Filth: Disease, Death and the Victorian City...

Author: Stephen Halliday
ISBN: 9780752461755
Format: Paperback
$34.99

How the Victorians struggled to overcome diseases such as cholera, typhoid and scarlet fever in their cities.  Read More >>

Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India

Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India

Author: Howard Spodek
ISBN: 9780253355874
Format: Hardback
$80.95

The history of a city and the evolution of a nation  Read More >>

The Urban Racial State: Managing Race Relations in American Cities

The Urban Racial State: Managing Race Relations in American...

Author: Noel A. Cazenave
ISBN: 9781442207752
Format: Hardback
$125.95

The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that bridges...  Read More >>

Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground

Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground...

Author: Gregory J. Snyder
ISBN: 9780814740460
Format: Paperback
$60.99

A journey deep into the underworld of graffiti artists  Read More >>

African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory...

Author: Professor Garth Myers
ISBN: 9781848135093
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This groundbreaking book shows how as African societies become increasingly urban they challenge prevailing theories...  Read More >>

The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929

The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929

Author: Christopher Robert Reed
ISBN: 9780252036231
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Assessing the roles of religion, politics, and class in the golden decade of black business  Read More >>

African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory...

Author: Professor Garth Myers
ISBN: 9781848135086
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This groundbreaking book shows how as African societies become increasingly urban they challenge prevailing theories...  Read More >>

Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life

Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the...

Author: Amy Chazkel
ISBN: 9786613266002
Format: Electronic book text
$284.96

Focuses on clandestine lottery prevalent throughout Brazil since the 1890s and its history of connections to urban...  Read More >>

The Philadelphia Barrio: The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation

The Philadelphia Barrio: The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood...

Author: Frederick F Wherry (University of Michigan) ,  Tony Rocco
ISBN: 9786613362926
Format: Electronic book text
$304.13

<p>How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material...  Read More >>

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
ISBN: 9780823234165
Format: Hardback
$150.95

Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining...  Read More >>

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