Urban communities books

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The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World

The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in...

Author: Professor Joseph Rykwert
ISBN: 9780571274789
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.  Read More >>

Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese...

Author: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
ISBN: 9781439902134
Format: Hardback
$159.72

How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World...  Read More >>

Estate

Estate

Author: Paul Hallam ,  Victor Buchli
ISBN: 9780956353924
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Public Housing provision was one of the 20th century's redeeming contributions. Recently, public housing as an ideal...  Read More >>

Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar

Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar...

Author: William Cunningham Bissell
ISBN: 9780253355430
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Modernity and metropolis in East Africa  Read More >>

Mirrors of Memory

Mirrors of Memory

Author: James W White (Dow Corning Corporation, Midland, Michigan)
ISBN: 9786613585950
Format: Electronic book text
$125.14

<p>As society becomes more global, many see the world's great cities as becoming increasingly similar. But while...  Read More >>

Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

Author: Harriet Bulkeley (University of Durham, UK) ,  Vanesa Castán Broto (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415586979
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Presents an analysis of the role of cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. This book combines insights...  Read More >>

Inner City Regeneration

Inner City Regeneration

Author: Robert K. Home
ISBN: 9780415611466
Format: Paperback
$46.99

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability

Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability...

Author: Andre Sorensen ,  Junichiro Okata
ISBN: 9784431992660
Format: Hardback
$340.56

The studies are organized around a shared set of concerns and questions about issues of sustainability, land development,...  Read More >>

Sustainable Cities and Energy Policies

Sustainable Cities and Energy Policies

Author: K. Bithas ,  Roberta Capello
ISBN: 9783642084348
Format: Paperback
$657.36

A wide array of policy initiatives is discussed and evaluated, ranging from market-based energy policies to technological...  Read More >>

The Dynamics of Urbanism

The Dynamics of Urbanism

Author: Peter F. Smith
ISBN: 9780415611459
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Dynamics of Urban Property Development

The Dynamics of Urban Property Development

Author: Jack Rose
ISBN: 9780415611473
Format: Paperback
$46.99

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The City in Cultural Context

The City in Cultural Context

Author: John Agnew ,  John Mercer
ISBN: 9780415611442
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Gentrification of the City

Gentrification of the City

Author: Neil Smith ,  Peter Williams
ISBN: 9780415611671
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Twentieth-Century Urbanization: In Search of an Urban Paradigm for an Urban World

Twentieth-Century Urbanization: In Search of an Urban...

Author: Howard Spodek
ISBN: 9780872291737
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Seeking a paradigm to understand the full impact of twentieth-century urbanization, Howard Spodek takes an historical...  Read More >>

Urban Food Insecurity and Coping Mechanisms: A Case Study of Lideta Sub-city in Addis Ababa

Urban Food Insecurity and Coping Mechanisms: A Case...

Author: Yared Amare
ISBN: 9789994450343
Format: Paperback
$60.59

The food market in Ethiopia has recently been marked by uncharacteristically high prices, a situation that has paralleled...  Read More >>

Self-Organization and the City

Self-Organization and the City

Author: I. Benenson ,  Juval Portugali
ISBN: 9783642084812
Format: Paperback
$630.96

Cities first came into existence more than five thousand years ago. How to deal with these partly fascinating, partly...  Read More >>

Women and Housing: An International Analysis

Women and Housing: An International Analysis

Author: Patricia Kennett (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Kam Wah Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780415548977
Format: Paperback
$80.00

This collection explores the housing circumstances of women in developed and emerging societies in Europe, USA and...  Read More >>

The Book Bindery

The Book Bindery

Author: Sarah Royal
ISBN: 9781934620847
Format: Paperback
$9.99

Newly rewritten!Sarah Royal spent some time working in a Chicago book bindery. From the get-go, she dispels any...  Read More >>

Education Policy, Space and the City: Markets and the (In)visibility of Race

Education Policy, Space and the City: Markets and the...

Author: Kalervo N. Gulson
ISBN: 9780415995566
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book examines the relationships between educational policy, space and place. With urbanisation as one of the...  Read More >>

Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City

Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for...

Author: Luke Bergmann
ISBN: 9780472034369
Format: Paperback
$60.59

A window into the lives of two young urban drug dealers  Read More >>

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change...

Author: Carl Abbott
ISBN: 9780826333131
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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Fundamental Trends in City Development

Fundamental Trends in City Development

Author: Giovanni Maciocco
ISBN: 9783642093517
Format: Paperback
$419.76

"The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three fundamental trends...  Read More >>

Women and Housing: An International Analysis

Women and Housing: An International Analysis

Author: Patricia Kennett (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Kam Wah Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780415548953
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This collection explores the housing circumstances of women in developed and emerging societies in Europe, USA and...  Read More >>

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