Urban communities books

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Urban Studies - Society

Urban Studies - Society

Author: Ronan Paddison ,  W J M Ostendorf
ISBN: 9781847872579
Format: Hardback
$1746.56

This essential reference works maps how Urban Studies as a discipline is composed with perspectives from economics...  Read More >>

Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective

Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective

Author: Rajib Shaw ,  Hari Srinivas
ISBN: 9781848559066
Format: Hardback
$327.95

As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted...  Read More >>

Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity

Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through...

Author: Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker ,  Charlie Hargroves
ISBN: 9781844075911
Format: Hardback
$49.95

Demonstrates how technical innovation could cut resource use in half while doubling wealth. This title tackles sustainable...  Read More >>

Environmental Integration: Our Common Challenge

Environmental Integration: Our Common Challenge

Author: Ton Bührs
ISBN: 9781438426082
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Offers an original way of looking at the challenge presented by environmental issues.  Read More >>

The Rising State: How State Power is Transforming Our Nation's Schools

The Rising State: How State Power is Transforming Our...

Author: Bonnie C. Fusarelli ,  Bruce S. Cooper
ISBN: 9780791476949
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Examines how federal and state governments have assumed ever-greater control over the education process since the...  Read More >>

America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics

America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics...

Author: Donald E. Frey
ISBN: 9780791493526
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present.  Read More >>

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life...

Author: Toby Talbot
ISBN: 9780231145671
Format: Paperback
$65.87

<p>The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would take place nowhere...  Read More >>

Badlands of the Republic

Badlands of the Republic

Author: Mustafa Dikec (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781281069436
Format: Electronic book text
$501.34

The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the...  Read More >>

Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State

Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State...

Author: Mogens Herman Hansen (Reader in Classical Philology, University of Copenhagen Director of the Copenhagen Polis Centre)
ISBN: 9781281160553
Format: Electronic book text
$137.20

From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with...  Read More >>

Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia

Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia

Author: Research Fellow in Social Anthropology Catherine Alexander (University of Birmingham St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, Cambridge University of Birmingham) ,  Caroline Humphrey
ISBN: 9781280970993
Format: Electronic book text
$887.04

Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet...  Read More >>

Culture and the City in East Asia

Culture and the City in East Asia

Author: Senior Fellow Won Bae Kim (Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements) ,  Michael Douglass
ISBN: 9781280806926
Format: Electronic book text
$713.30

The significance of the relationship between culture and urban transformation in Asian cities is increasingly recognized....  Read More >>

Coastal Towns in Transition: Local Perceptions of Landscape Change

Coastal Towns in Transition: Local Perceptions of Landscape...

Author: Raymond Green
ISBN: 9780643095335
Format: Paperback
$120.00

This book looks at how changes due to unsympathetic development of the built environment and modification of the...  Read More >>

The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity

The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and...

Author: Judith Noemí Freidenberg ,  June C. Nash
ISBN: 9780292725690
Format: Paperback
$32.95

A unique ethnography of the Eastern European Jews who settled northeast of Buenos Aires in the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America

Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Felipe Hernandez ,  Peter Kellett
ISBN: 9781845455828
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their...  Read More >>

The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity

The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and...

Author: Judith Noemi Freidenberg
ISBN: 9780292719958
Format: Hardback
$145.20

An ethnography of the Eastern European Jews who settled northeast of Buenos Aires in the nineteenth century.  Read More >>

Immigrants in Prairie Cities: Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada

Immigrants in Prairie Cities: Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Royden Loewen ,  Gerald Friesen
ISBN: 9780802096098
Format: Paperback
$67.99

In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction...  Read More >>

Mass Housing in Europe: Multiple Faces of Development, Change and Response

Mass Housing in Europe: Multiple Faces of Development,...

Author: R. Rowlands ,  Sako Musterd
ISBN: 9780230007307
Format: Hardback
$154.00

Based on empirical research from 29 major postwar housing estates in 15 European cities, this collection explores...  Read More >>

Immigrants in Prairie Cities: Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada

Immigrants in Prairie Cities: Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Royden Loewen ,  Gerald Friesen
ISBN: 9780802099082
Format: Hardback
$130.00

In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction...  Read More >>

Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters

Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing...

Author: Abhas K Jha
ISBN: 9781282502147
Format: Electronic book text
$105.55

Best practices in post-disaster housing and community reconstruction are constantly evolving. Technology is changing...  Read More >>

South Street

South Street

Author: Barbara Mensch ,  Philip Lopate
ISBN: 9780231139335
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Offers a tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful,...  Read More >>

Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe

Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning...

Author: Emily Gunzburger Makas ,  Tanja Damljanovic Conley
ISBN: 9780415459433
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Exploring the urban and planning history of cities across Central and South-eastern Europe against a background...  Read More >>

Re-shaping Cities: How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form

Re-shaping Cities: How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture...

Author: Michael Guggenheim (University of Zurich, Switzerland) ,  Ola Söderström (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9780415492904
Format: Hardback
$368.00

How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in...  Read More >>

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