Urban communities books

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University Avenue Project: The Language of Urbanism - A Six-Mile Photographic Enquiry

University Avenue Project: The Language of Urbanism...

Author: Wing Young Huie
ISBN: 9780873517829
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Explores the complex cultural and socio-economic diversity of the St Paul neighbourhoods along University Avenue....  Read More >>

Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin

Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the...

Author: William Scott Jr. Swearingen, Jr.
ISBN: 9780292721814
Format: Hardback
$80.95

A history of the environmental movement in Austin, Texas, that shows how it became a model for the national movement...  Read More >>

Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing

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

Author: Prof James Defilippis ,  Prof Robert Fisher
ISBN: 9786613383099
Format: Electronic book text
$228.10

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

Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities

Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities

Author: Mikael Hård (Darmstadt University of Technology) ,  Thomas J. Misa (Director, University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9780262514170
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Modern European cities viewed as complex constructs entangled with technology: the most dramatic changes in the...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: David J. Harding
ISBN: 9780226316642
Format: Hardback
$167.95

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

Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship

Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development,...

Author: Leslie Kern
ISBN: 9780774818223
Format: Hardback
$248.16

By examining urban revitalization in Toronto from the perspective of women, this book reveals the neoliberal agenda...  Read More >>

Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death

Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death...

Author: Satsuki Kawano
ISBN: 9780824834135
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Offers insightful discussion on the rise of new death rites and ideologies, older adults’ views of their death rites,...  Read More >>

Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day

Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the...

Author: Meltem Toksoz ,  Biray Kolluoglu
ISBN: 9781848851276
Format: Hardback
$336.38

In this ambitious inter-disciplinary study, the authors examine the relationships between the Eastern Mediterranean...  Read More >>

Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces

Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and...

Author: Kate Swanson
ISBN: 9780820334653
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and...  Read More >>

Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World

Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing...

Author: Jeb Brugmann
ISBN: 9781608190928
Format: Paperback
$47.52

A leading expert in urban development offers a powerful reappraisal of the role cities and their inhabitants have...  Read More >>

Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces

Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and...

Author: Kate Swanson
ISBN: 9780820331805
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and...  Read More >>

Who Killed Donte Manning? The Story of an American Neighborhood

Who Killed Donte Manning? The Story of an American Neighborhood...

Author: Rose Marie Berger
ISBN: 9781934074404
Format: Paperback
$39.47

In March 2005, a nine-year-old boy was gunned down in his Columbia Heights neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The...  Read More >>

Seeking Spatial Justice

Seeking Spatial Justice

Author: Edward W. Soja
ISBN: 9780816666676
Format: Hardback
$198.00

In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources,...  Read More >>

Seeking Spatial Justice

Seeking Spatial Justice

Author: Edward W. Soja
ISBN: 9780816666683
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City

The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies...

Author: John D. Fairfield
ISBN: 9781439902103
Format: Hardback
$104.28

Throughout U.S. history, unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on...  Read More >>

The Restless City Reader: A New York City Sourcebook

The Restless City Reader: A New York City Sourcebook...

Author: Joanne Reitano (LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9780415802277
Format: Hardback
$216.00

From Peter Stuyvesant to Mayor Bloomberg, New York City's history is full of vibrant characters, riveting events,...  Read More >>

Phoenix cities: The fall and rise of great industrial cities

Phoenix cities: The fall and rise of great industrial...

Author: Anne Power (London School of Economics and Political Science) ,  Jörg Plöger (ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development)
ISBN: 9781847426833
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book explores economic, social and environmental transformations in Europe and the USA to inform the regeneration...  Read More >>

Nazareth or Social Chaos

Nazareth or Social Chaos

Author: Dr Cicero Bruce ,  Joseph Kelly
ISBN: 9781932528190
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Examines urbanized, industrialized life. This book claims that urban life has a deleterious effect on nature, community,...  Read More >>

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing...

Author: Alex Kotlowitz ,  Dion Graham
ISBN: 9781441734815
Format: Audio
$174.11

This bestselling expose presents the tender underside of America's inner cities, the children, and reveals a side...  Read More >>

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing...

Author: Alex Kotlowitz ,  Dion Graham
ISBN: 9781441734846
Format: Audio
$79.07

This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century is a true-life...  Read More >>

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing...

Author: Alex Kotlowitz ,  Dion Graham
ISBN: 9781441734822
Format: Audio
$264.00

This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century is a true-life...  Read More >>

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