Urban communities books

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Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities

Author: Witold Rybczynski
ISBN: 9781416561255
Format: Hardback
$63.36

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

Leadership and Place

Leadership and Place

Author: Chris Collinge (The Birmingham Business School, UK) ,  John Gibney (The Birmingham Business School, UK)
ISBN: 9780415550147
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book makes an important contribution to the discussion of the contemporary leadership challenges in the context...  Read More >>

Women and Property in Urban India

Women and Property in Urban India

Author: Bipasha Baruah
ISBN: 9780774819275
Format: Hardback
$248.16

An intimate exploration of the opportunities and constraints faced by low-income women in Ahmedabad, as throughout...  Read More >>

Militrsiedlungen Und Territorialherrschaft in Der Antike

Militrsiedlungen Und Territorialherrschaft in Der Antike...

Author: Frank Daubner
ISBN: 9786613429179
Format: Electronic book text
$142.56

In a series of case studies, the contributions assess the extent to which in the Ancient World control over large...  Read More >>

Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan

Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the...

Author: Allan Formicola ,  Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero
ISBN: 9780231151672
Format: Paperback
$56.95

"From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical...  Read More >>

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer,...

Author: David Owen
ISBN: 9781594484841
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan

Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the...

Author: Allan Formicola ,  Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero
ISBN: 9780231151665
Format: Hardback
$182.95

"From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical...  Read More >>

Cities, Politics & Power

Cities, Politics & Power

Author: Simon Parker (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9780415365802
Format: Paperback
$59.00

Presents an introduction into how, on whose behalf, and with what consequences the cities in which we live are run....  Read More >>

Digital Cornerville

Digital Cornerville

Author: Michael Liegl
ISBN: 9783828205253
Format: Paperback
$103.50

"Keine ausf�hrliche Beschreibung f�r ""Digital Cornerville"" verf�gbar."  Read More >>

From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918

From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare...

Author: Gunja SenGupta
ISBN: 9780814741078
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Reveals that New York's interlocking network of private benevolence and municipal relief promoted a racialized and...  Read More >>

Commune-Ist Manifesto: A Declaration of Community

Commune-Ist Manifesto: A Declaration of Community

Author: James Daniel Forlines
ISBN: 9781432759322
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Drawing on centuries of wisdom traditions and the growing body of research and literature calling for a social revival,...  Read More >>

Cities, Politics & Power

Cities, Politics & Power

Author: Simon Parker (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9780415365796
Format: Hardback
$196.00

Presents an introduction into how, on whose behalf, and with what consequences the cities in which we live are run....  Read More >>

Sacha Dumont's Euro-mysteries

Sacha Dumont's Euro-mysteries

Author: Sacha Dumont ,  Bob Biderman
ISBN: 9781900355438
Format: Paperback
$31.05

Dumont is a British journalist of French and German extraction assigned to cover the emerging Europe of the 21st...  Read More >>

The Endless City

The Endless City

Author: Ricky Burdett ,  Deyan Sudjic
ISBN: 9780714859569
Format: Paperback
$131.87

An authoritative and visually rich survey of the contemporary city.  Read More >>

Art and the City

Art and the City

Author: Nicolas Whybrow (School of Theatre Studies, Coventry University, UK)
ISBN: 9781845114657
Format: Paperback
$49.99

In exploring how artworks present themselves as a means by which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor,...  Read More >>

Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife,...

Author: Chad Heap
ISBN: 9780226322445
Format: Paperback
$57.95

From its appearance as a 'fashionable dissipation' centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s...  Read More >>

Art and the City

Art and the City

Author: Nicolas Whybrow (School of Theatre Studies, Coventry University, UK)
ISBN: 9781845114664
Format: Hardback
$232.32

In exploring how artworks present themselves as a means by which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor,...  Read More >>

Geocomputation and Urban Planning

Geocomputation and Urban Planning

Author: Beniamino Murgante ,  Giuseppe Borruso
ISBN: 9783642100659
Format: Paperback
$393.36

the first one related to spatial decision support system and to spatial uncertainty, the second connected to artificial...  Read More >>

The Territorial Future of the City

The Territorial Future of the City

Author: Giovanni Maciocco
ISBN: 9783642096259
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The volume brings together contributions by both leading scholars and young academics with a particular experience...  Read More >>

Vulnerable Cities:: Realities, Innovations and Strategies

Vulnerable Cities:: Realities, Innovations and Strategies...

Author: Tetsuo Kidokoro ,  Junichiro Okata
ISBN: 9784431998471
Format: Paperback
$287.76

In developing countries, vulnerable urban space can be observed typically as substandard informal settlements such...  Read More >>

Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion: Discourses, Realities and Implementation

Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion: Discourses,...

Author: Peter Ache ,  Hans Thor Andersen
ISBN: 9789048178162
Format: Paperback
$472.56

During the last three years, a group of about forty people has met regularly across Europe to develop the ideas...  Read More >>

Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Jo Beall (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa) ,  Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis (Senior Economic Advisor, UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), Malawi)
ISBN: 9780199590148
Format: Hardback
$318.00

This volume presents a significant new collection that focuses on urbanization and its implications for economic...  Read More >>

Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives

Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives...

Author: F. Wu ,  C. Webster
ISBN: 9780230237728
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social...  Read More >>

The Principles of Green Urbanism: Transforming the City for Sustainability

The Principles of Green Urbanism: Transforming the City...

Author: Steffen Lehmann
ISBN: 9781844078172
Format: Paperback
$224.27

How can we transform and future-proof the post-industrial city through strategies of architectural and urban design?...  Read More >>

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