Urban communities books

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Class and Consciousness Formation in a Local Setting

Class and Consciousness Formation in a Local Setting...

Author: B Çavlan Erengezgin
ISBN: 9783838314358
Format: Paperback
$308.88

Integrating the tensions between 'locality-wider society' and 'structure-consciousness' within an operational framework,...  Read More >>

Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities

Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize...

Author: Andrew Hurley ,  Zane L. Miller
ISBN: 9781439902295
Format: Paperback
$81.71

A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighbourhoods through the public interpretation of historic...  Read More >>

Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities

Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize...

Author: Andrew Hurley ,  Zane L. Miller
ISBN: 9781439902288
Format: Hardback
$209.88

A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighbourhoods through the public interpretation of historic...  Read More >>

The New America

The New America

Author: Mark Little
ISBN: 9781934848890
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The New America looks at the impact of changing demographics on the American psyche from the perspective of a seasoned,...  Read More >>

Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing

Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local...

Author: James DeFilippis ,  Robert Fisher
ISBN: 9780813547565
Format: Paperback
$68.51

What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians,...  Read More >>

There Are No Children Here

There Are No Children Here

Author: Alex Kotlowitz ,  Dion Graham
ISBN: 9781441734884
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$158.37

Originally published in hardcover by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in 1991 --T.p. verso.  Read More >>

City Life

City Life

Author: Alex Franklin
ISBN: 9780761944768
Format: Paperback
$112.80

A new sociological and social anthropological analysis of contemporary cities in the West, looking at both their...  Read More >>

Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies

Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial...

Author: Frederic L. Pryor (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780511754302
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

Frederic L. Pryor uses a multidisciplinary approach (economics, anthropology, statistics, history) to examine large...  Read More >>

Flood Proneness in Bangladesh: Coping and Indigenous Knowledge

Flood Proneness in Bangladesh: Coping and Indigenous...

Author: Shitangsu K Paul ,  Jayant K Routray
ISBN: 9783838302690
Format: Paperback
$190.08

The book documents the historical perspective of floods in Bangladesh with environmental, socio- economic and infrastructural...  Read More >>

Globalization in the 21st Century: Labor, Capital, and the State on a World Scale

Globalization in the 21st Century: Labor, Capital, and...

Author: B. Berberoglu
ISBN: 9781349381135
Format: Paperback
$84.99

After providing a critical overview of neoliberal capitalist globalization over the past three decades, the book...  Read More >>

Swept-Up Lives?: Re-Envisioning the Homeless City

Swept-Up Lives?: Re-Envisioning the Homeless City

Author: Paul Cloke (University of Exeter, UK) ,  Jon May (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781405153867
Format: Hardback
$237.47

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept-Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness...  Read More >>

Space-Body-Ritual: Performativity in the City

Space-Body-Ritual: Performativity in the City

Author: Reena Tiwari
ISBN: 9780739128572
Format: Hardback
$137.95

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Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology

Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the...

Author: Reiland Rabaka
ISBN: 9780739145982
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Against Epistemic Apartheid offers an archive-informed and accessible introduction to Du Bois's major contributions...  Read More >>

City Life

City Life

Author: Alex Franklin
ISBN: 9780761944751
Format: Hardback
$418.00

A new sociological and social anthropological analysis of contemporary cities in the West, looking at both their...  Read More >>

Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City

Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial...

Author: Richard Lloyd (Vanderbilt University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415870962
Format: Hardback
$224.00

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Housing Policy in the United States

Housing Policy in the United States

Author: Alex F Schwartz (New School University, USA)
ISBN: 9781282571914
Format: Electronic book text
$522.72

The most widely used and most widely referenced basic book on Housing Policy in the United States has now been...  Read More >>

Swept Up Lives?: Re-envisioning the Homeless City

Swept Up Lives?: Re-envisioning the Homeless City

Author: Paul Cloke (University of Exeter, UK) ,  Jon May (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781405153874
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept-Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness...  Read More >>

Restless Cities

Restless Cities

Author: Gregory Dart ,  Matthew Beaumont
ISBN: 9781844674053
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys

Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture among...

Author: David J. Harding
ISBN: 9780226316659
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Looks at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the many complex ways that the context of community shapes the...  Read More >>

Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City

Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar...

Author: Aseel Sawalha
ISBN: 9780292728813
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments

Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv:...

Author: Tali Hatuka ,  Diane E. Davis
ISBN: 9780292728820
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities: The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era

Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities: The Urban Landscape...

Author: Cordula Gdaniec
ISBN: 9781845456658
Format: Hardback
$85.00

Cultural diversity-the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture-is a catchphrase...  Read More >>

Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments

Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv:...

Author: Tali Hatuka ,  Diane E. Davis
ISBN: 9780292721852
Format: Hardback
$145.20

An examination of the effects of violence on an urban center and how it shapes both the physical and cultural landscape...  Read More >>

Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified...

Author: Gisa Weszkalnys
ISBN: 9781845457235
Format: Hardback
$85.00

This book is both a critical contribution to the anthropology of contemporary modernity and a radical intervention...  Read More >>

The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles

The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles

Author: Nadia Amoroso (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415551809
Format: Paperback
$84.00

Amoroso draws on unseen elements of the city – like crime rates and surveillance – to create mapping for the twenty-first...  Read More >>

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