Urban communities books

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Meeting Students Where They Live: Motivation in Urban Schools

Meeting Students Where They Live: Motivation in Urban...

Author: Richard L. Curwin
ISBN: 9781416609568
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Villagers and the City: Melanesian Experiences of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Villagers and the City: Melanesian Experiences of Port...

Author: Michael Goddard ,  Keith Barber
ISBN: 9780955640063
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Since Papua, New Guinea's, independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative...  Read More >>

Fluidity of Place: Globalization and the Transformation of Urban Space

Fluidity of Place: Globalization and the Transformation...

Author: Naoki Yoshihara ,  Minako Sato
ISBN: 9781920901530
Format: Hardback
$224.27

Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary conversation with theories of space-time, place and globalization...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth: The Future of our Built Environment

The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth: The Future of our...

Author: Professor Robert Kirkman
ISBN: 9781441102805
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Explores the ethical implications behind the issues related to metropolitan growth and environmental change. This...  Read More >>

Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil

Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without...

Author: Richard Gilbert ,  Anthony Perl
ISBN: 9781844076987
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Argues that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth: The Future of our Built Environment

The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth: The Future of our...

Author: Professor Robert Kirkman
ISBN: 9781441113122
Format: Hardback
$72.00

Explores the ethical implications behind the issues related to metropolitan growth and environmental change. This...  Read More >>

Barcelona Culture on the Move

Barcelona Culture on the Move

Author: Roger Miralles ,  Jordi Mart-
ISBN: 9788476095621
Format: Hardback
$102.96

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Venezia Marghera: Photography and Transformation in the Contemporary City - Exhibition, Paleis Marghera, Venice

Venezia Marghera: Photography and Transformation in...

Author: Paolo Costantini ,  Gianfranco Mossetto
ISBN: 9788881581283
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Fifteen Italian photographers were invited to take part in a project to record the very unusual urban landscape...  Read More >>

The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre

The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre...

Author: Michael J Shapiro (University of Hawaii, USA)
ISBN: 9781282656413
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

<p>The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate...  Read More >>

How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York

How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements...

Author: Jacob A. Riis ,  Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
ISBN: 9780674049321
Format: Paperback
$34.19

A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the...  Read More >>

Urban Biodiversity and Design

Urban Biodiversity and Design

Author: Norbert Muller (University of Applied Sciences Erfurt) ,  P. Werner
ISBN: 9781444332674
Format: Paperback
$163.95

With the continual growth of the world's urban population, biodiversity in towns and cities will play a critical...  Read More >>

The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis

The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration...

Author: Thomas A. Hutton (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415569323
Format: Paperback
$65.00

The New Economy of the Inner City presents a penetrating analysis of contemporary new industry formation and its...  Read More >>

Urban Biodiversity and Design

Urban Biodiversity and Design

Author: Norbert Muller (University of Applied Sciences Erfurt) ,  P. Werner
ISBN: 9781444332667
Format: Hardback
$325.95

With the continual growth of the world's urban population, biodiversity in towns and cities will play a critical...  Read More >>

Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver

Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory...

Author: Adrienne L. Burk
ISBN: 9780774816984
Format: Hardback
$248.16

This vivid account of the creation of three public monuments in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside offers unique insights...  Read More >>

Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies,...

Author: Michael Gross
ISBN: 9780767924894
Format: Paperback
$44.85

""Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form ... by Broadway Books ... in 2009""--T.p. verso....  Read More >>

The Other Global City

The Other Global City

Author: Shail Mayaram (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India)
ISBN: 9780415882361
Format: Paperback
$96.99

What is a Global City? Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the ""other global""...  Read More >>

New Approaches to Qualitative Research: Wisdom and Uncertainty

New Approaches to Qualitative Research: Wisdom and Uncertainty...

Author: Maggi Savin-Baden (University of Coventry, UK) ,  Claire Howell Major (University of Alabama, USA)
ISBN: 9780415572415
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The authors take the stance that qualitative research is a broad approach that encompasses and encourages difference...  Read More >>

New Approaches to Qualitative Research: Wisdom and Uncertainty

New Approaches to Qualitative Research: Wisdom and Uncertainty...

Author: Maggi Savin-Baden (University of Coventry, UK) ,  Claire Howell Major (University of Alabama, USA)
ISBN: 9780415572408
Format: Hardback
$368.00

The authors take the stance that qualitative research is a broad approach that encompasses and encourages difference...  Read More >>

Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia

Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia

Author: Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas, Austin) ,  Martina Rieker (American University in Cairo)
ISBN: 9780195474985
Format: Hardback
$92.40

These set of essays seek to highlight the changing social dynamics in Middle Eastern and South Asian cities. The...  Read More >>

The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles

The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans...

Author: Scott Kurashige
ISBN: 9780691146188
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a 'world city' characterized by multiculturalism and globalization....  Read More >>

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