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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: 9780415492911
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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

Divergence in European Welfare and Housing Systems

Divergence in European Welfare and Housing Systems

Author: J. S. C. M. Hoekstra
ISBN: 9781607506676
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Explores the relationship between the characteristics of the welfare state and the characteristics of the housing...  Read More >>

Measuring and Explaining House Price Developments

Measuring and Explaining House Price Developments

Author: P. De Vries
ISBN: 9781607506652
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Discusses ways of measuring and explaining the development of house prices. This title identifies the fundamental...  Read More >>

No Communication with the Sea

No Communication with the Sea

Author: Tim Sullivan
ISBN: 9781299191426
Format: Undefined
$105.60

Few other places in the United States are as high, dry, sparsely inhabited and urbanized as the Great Basin of Utah...  Read More >>

Montreal at the Crossroads: Super Highways, the Turcot and the Environment

Montreal at the Crossroads: Super Highways, the Turcot...

Author: Pierre Gauthier, pro ,  Jochen Jaeger
ISBN: 9781282000131
Format: Electronic book text
$36.96

Sheds light on the complex and overlapping jurisdictions and institutions typically involved in urban planning....  Read More >>

Das Konsumverhalten Deutscher Und Chinesischer Studenten, Das: Eine Kulturvergleichende Studie

Das Konsumverhalten Deutscher Und Chinesischer Studenten,...

Author: Chunxiao Li
ISBN: 9781299417953
Format: Electronic book text
$100.19

Fuhrt die stetig fortschreitende Globalisierung zu einer weltweiten Annaherung der Konsumentenbedurfnisse und -wunsche?...  Read More >>

Global Philadelphia

Global Philadelphia

Author: Ayumi Takenaka (Bryn Mawr College, USA) ,  Mary Johnson Osirim
ISBN: 9781299833784
Format: Electronic book text
$223.08

The racial and ethnic composition of Philadelphia continues to diversify as a new wave of immigrants largely from...  Read More >>

Mumbai Fables

Mumbai Fables

Author: Assistant Professor of History Gyan Prakash (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781283088817
Format: Electronic book text
$99.00

A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also...  Read More >>

Organizing in Hard Times

Organizing in Hard Times

Author: Louise Simmons (University of Connecticut, USA)
ISBN: 9781306094665
Format: Electronic book text
$236.28

In 1990, Hartford, Connecticut, ranked as the eight poorest city in the country by the census; the real estate market...  Read More >>

Urban Leviathan

Urban Leviathan

Author: Diane Davis (Domestic Abuse Project, Minneapolis)
ISBN: 9781306142625
Format: Electronic book text
$249.48

Why, Diane Davis asks, has Mexico City, once known as the city of palaces, turned into a sea of people, poverty,...  Read More >>

Unequal Networks: Spatial Segregation, Relationships and Inequality in the City

Unequal Networks: Spatial Segregation, Relationships...

Author: G. Van Eijk
ISBN: 9781607505556
Format: Paperback
$306.24

Brings together key insights from urban studies and network studies in order to understand whether and how spatial...  Read More >>

Sustainability and Cities: Concept and Assessment

Sustainability and Cities: Concept and Assessment

Author: Senior Research Fellow Ooi Giok Ling (Institute of Policy Studies National University of Singapore Institute of Policy Studies)
ISBN: 9781281928030
Format: Electronic book text
$245.52

For the past 20 years, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) has been at the forefront of efforts to promote...  Read More >>

Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life

Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias...

Author: S Pile ,  Dr Steve Pile (The Open University, UK Open University Open University The Open University, UK The Open University, UK The Open University, UK The Open University, UK The Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9781281251206
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

'...this is a book with an interesting thesis, and a welcome contribution to the literature. Pile has opened up...  Read More >>

How the Other Half Lives

How the Other Half Lives

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ISBN: 9780756980382
Format: Hardback
$64.94

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Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Systems

Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal...

Author: Enid Slack ,  Rupak Chattopadhyay
ISBN: 9780773535657
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Cambodian Refugees in Ontario: Resettlement, Religion, and Identity

Cambodian Refugees in Ontario: Resettlement, Religion,...

Author: Janet McLellan
ISBN: 9780802099624
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Janet McLellan uses ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, including extensive interviews, to highlight the difficulties...  Read More >>

Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Systems

Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal...

Author: Enid Slack ,  Rupak Chattopadhyay
ISBN: 9780773535640
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Die europäische Stadt in Transformation: Stadtplanung und Stadtentwicklungspolitik im postsozialistischen Warschau

Die europäische Stadt in Transformation: Stadtplanung...

Author: Florian Koch
ISBN: 9783531170909
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt Universit'at Berlin, 2009.  Read More >>

New York by Gas-Light

New York by Gas-Light

Author: George G. Foster
ISBN: 9781151458636
Format: Paperback
$47.10

First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: the...  Read More >>

City Lights: Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society

City Lights: Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society...

Author: Barbara Phillips ,  E Barbara Phillips
ISBN: 9780195325034
Format: Paperback
$316.95

"Now in its third edition, City Lights: Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society is the most interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country about True Sustainability

Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country...

Author: Lord David Owen (University of Southampton) ,  Patrick Girard Lawlor
ISBN: 9781616375553
Format: Mixed media product
$184.77

Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares---as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel...  Read More >>

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