Urban communities books

18342 books were found.

The Futures of the City Region

The Futures of the City Region

Author: Michael Neuman (Texas A&M University, USA) ,  Angela Hull (Heriot Watt University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415588034
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Debates about city-regions tend to renew long-standing arguments that policy-making ought to be organised around...  Read More >>

Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juarez Since 1848

Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juarez Since 1848

Author: Oscar J. Martinez
ISBN: 9780292729827
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Border Boom Town traces the social and economic evolution of Ciudad Juarez, the largest city on the U.S.-Mexican...  Read More >>

The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York

The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification...

Author: Suleiman Osman (Assistant Professor of American Studies, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University, Washington, DC)
ISBN: 9780195387315
Format: Hardback
$122.95

The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn offers an original and captivating history of gentrification, challenging the...  Read More >>

Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age

Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global...

Author: Eugene McCann ,  Kevin Ward
ISBN: 9780816656295
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005

Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and...

Author: Duanfang Lu
ISBN: 9780415665698
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Providing an overview of the evolution of today's urban built environment in China, this book charts the complex...  Read More >>

Urban Tomographies

Urban Tomographies

Author: Martin H. Krieger
ISBN: 9780812243048
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Like a CAT scan of an organ, urban tomography documents metropolitan life by sampling and compiling multiple slices...  Read More >>

The Comparative Guide to American Suburbs

The Comparative Guide to American Suburbs

Author: David Garoogian
ISBN: 9781592378340
Format: Paperback
$396.00

Offers a one-stop source for Statistics on the 2,000+ suburban communities surrounding the 50 largest US metropolitan...  Read More >>

White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling

White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling

Author: D. Reay ,  G. Crozier
ISBN: 9781137355010
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Author: Max Page (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA) ,  Timothy Mennel (American Planning Association, USA)
ISBN: 9781932364958
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book gives this important thinker the respect she deserves, reminding planning professionals of the full range...  Read More >>

The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition

The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition

Author: Donald Shoup (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781932364965
Format: Paperback
$79.99

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

400 Things Cops Know: Street: Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman

400 Things Cops Know: Street: Smart Lessons from a Veteran...

Author: Adam Plantinga, B.A.
ISBN: 9781610352178
Format: Paperback
$44.75

400 Things Cops Knows shows police work on the inside, from the viewpoint of the regular cop on the beat  Read More >>

White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling

White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling

Author: D. Reay ,  G. Crozier
ISBN: 9780230224018
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Author: Max Page (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA) ,  Timothy Mennel (American Planning Association, USA)
ISBN: 9781932364941
Format: Hardback
$210.00

This book gives this important thinker the respect she deserves, reminding planning professionals of the full range...  Read More >>

Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution

Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution

Author: William Bunge ,  Nik Heynen
ISBN: 9780820338743
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Every Day's a Festival!: Diversity on Show

Every Day's a Festival!: Diversity on Show

Author: Susanne Kuchler ,  Laszlo Kurti
ISBN: 9781907774010
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The contributors to this volume explore the modern urban festival and the difference it makes to the experience...  Read More >>

Children and their Urban Environment: Changing Worlds

Children and their Urban Environment: Changing Worlds...

Author: Claire Freeman ,  Paul Tranter
ISBN: 9781844078530
Format: Hardback
$69.95

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked....  Read More >>

Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl

Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and...

Author: Pamela Blais
ISBN: 9780774818964
Format: Paperback
$116.03

Distorted price signals and flawed public policy create powerful and largely hidden perverse subsidies and incentives...  Read More >>

The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

Author: Thomas Heberer (University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany) ,  Christian Göbel (Lund University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9780415597029
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the...  Read More >>

Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age

Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global...

Author: Eugene McCann ,  Kevin Ward
ISBN: 9780816656288
Format: Hardback
$89.99

How knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide.  Read More >>

Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning

Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning...

Author: Wolf-Dietrich Sahr ,  Heiko Schmid
ISBN: 9781409418535
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological...  Read More >>

Ethnicity and Urban Life in China: A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese

Ethnicity and Urban Life in China: A Comparative Study...

Author: Xiaowei Zang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780415666435
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between 2001 and 2004, this much-needed...  Read More >>

Global Urbanization

Global Urbanization

Author: Eugenie L. Birch ,  Susan M. Wachter
ISBN: 9780812242843
Format: Hardback
$198.00

This volume surveys the current rapid growth in urban populations and begins to formulate a global urban agenda...  Read More >>

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