Urban communities books

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Author: Jonathan Kozol ,  Mark Winston
ISBN: 9781441841612
Format: Audio
$65.97

USA National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his account of the American educational system in...  Read More >>

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Author: Jonathan Kozol ,  Mark Winston
ISBN: 9781441841629
Format: Audio
$105.52

USA National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his account of the American educational system in...  Read More >>

Social Sustainability in Urban Areas: Communities, Connectivity and the Urban Fabric

Social Sustainability in Urban Areas: Communities, Connectivity...

Author: Karen Lucas ,  Judith Allen (Univ. of Westminster, London)
ISBN: 9781282617414
Format: Electronic book text
$253.28

A book on social sustainability offering critique and creative solutions. It challenges conventional wisdoms of...  Read More >>

At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities

At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian...

Author: Laurentiu Radvan
ISBN: 9789004180109
Format: Hardback
$823.68

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The Battle with the Slum

The Battle with the Slum

Author: Jacob A Riis
ISBN: 9781153810777
Format: Paperback
$62.44

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Who's Your City?

Who's Your City?

Author: Richard Florida, PhD
ISBN: 9788996067771
Format: Paperback
$116.16

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The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China

The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and...

Author: You-tien Hsing (, Associate Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780199568048
Format: Hardback
$240.00

As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban...  Read More >>

Reclaiming East Manchester: Ten Years of Resident-led Regeneration

Reclaiming East Manchester: Ten Years of Resident-led...

Author: Len Grant
ISBN: 9780952672067
Format: Hardback
$25.88

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Urban Sociology: Images and Structure

Urban Sociology: Images and Structure

Author: William G. Flanagan
ISBN: 9780742561762
Format: Paperback
$106.95

The fifth edition of this book extends the discussion of the challenges faced by urban sociology in the global age,...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology: Images and Structure

Urban Sociology: Images and Structure

Author: William G. Flanagan
ISBN: 9780742561755
Format: Hardback
$176.95

The fifth edition of this book extends the discussion of the challenges faced by urban sociology in the global age,...  Read More >>

Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys

Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys

Author: Caroline Knowles ,  Douglas Harper
ISBN: 9780226448572
Format: Paperback
$51.95

In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city's status as one of the last remnants...  Read More >>

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Author: Tom McDonough
ISBN: 9781844673643
Format: Paperback
$35.00

The Situationist International (SI), led by Guy Debord and central to the Paris uprising in May 1968, published...  Read More >>

Urban Studies - Economy & Society

Urban Studies - Economy & Society

Author: Ronan Paddison
ISBN: 9781847878922
Format: Hardback
$3105.00

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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience...

Author: Jonathan Kozol ,  Dick Hill
ISBN: 9781441848680
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$105.57

The New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Savage Inequalities reveals the hearts of children who grow...  Read More >>

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places...

Author: Sharon Zukin (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College)
ISBN: 9780195382853
Format: Hardback
$143.95

"As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as ""authentic"" urban life:...  Read More >>

Circulation and the City

Circulation and the City

Author: Alexandra Boutros ,  Will Straw (McGill University, Montr??al McGill University, Montreal McGill University, Montreal)
ISBN: 9786613842817
Format: Electronic book text
$300.96

How does movement affect the metropolis?  Read More >>

Circulation and the City

Circulation and the City

Author: Alexandra Boutros ,  Will Straw (McGill University, Montr??al McGill University, Montreal McGill University, Montreal)
ISBN: 9781283530361
Format: Electronic book text
$300.96

How does movement affect the metropolis?  Read More >>

Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression-Era...

Author: Katrina Srigley
ISBN: 9781442610033
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era...  Read More >>

Cities, Poverty and Food: Multi-Stakeholder Policy and Planning in Urban Agriculture

Cities, Poverty and Food: Multi-Stakeholder Policy and...

Author: Marielle Dubbeling ,  Henk de Zeeuw
ISBN: 9781853397097
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This book provides valuable insights and guidelines which are essential reading for the staff of municipal authorities,...  Read More >>

Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban

Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban

Author: Anne M. Cronin
ISBN: 9781349303700
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book...  Read More >>

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto’s...

Author: Carolyn Whitzman
ISBN: 9780774815369
Format: Paperback
$86.99

A history of Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, spanning three eras of suburban and urban development and examining...  Read More >>

Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia

Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in...

Author: Stephen DeStefano
ISBN: 9780674035560
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Examines the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. This title explores what our insatiable appetite...  Read More >>

The American College Town

The American College Town

Author: Blake Gumprecht
ISBN: 9781558498136
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Identifies the features of college towns, explains why they have developed as they have in the United States, and...  Read More >>

Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing, and the Restoration of Urban America

Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing, and the Restoration...

Author: Nicole Stelle Garnett
ISBN: 9780300124941
Format: Paperback
$82.95

Highlights the multiple, often overlooked, and frequently misunderstood connections between land use and development...  Read More >>

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