Urban communities books

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

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

Author: David Owen ,  Patrick Lawlor
ISBN: 9781400143719
Format: Audio
$184.77

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: David Owen ,  Patrick Lawlor
ISBN: 9781400163717
Format: Audio
$65.97

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest...  Read More >>

Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century

Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century

Author: Donald Phares
ISBN: 9780765620880
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Examines various trends in metropolitan governance issues. This book analyzes specific cases from thirteen major...  Read More >>

Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver

Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of...

Author: Kristin Good
ISBN: 9781442609938
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Municipalities and Multiculturalism explores the role of the municipality in integrating immigrants and managing...  Read More >>

Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence

Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and...

Author: Nikki Jones ,  Myra Bluebond-Langner
ISBN: 9780813546155
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Shows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This...  Read More >>

The Indoor Environment Handbook: How to Make Buildings Healthy and Comfortable

The Indoor Environment Handbook: How to Make Buildings...

Author: Philomena Bluyssen (Delft University of Technology)
ISBN: 9781844077878
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Shows how the human body and senses react to different indoor environmental conditions, together with basic information...  Read More >>

Water Management in Megacities

Water Management in Megacities

Author: Cecilia Tortajada (National University of Singapore) ,  Olli Varis
ISBN: 9780415568494
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book considers the magnitudes, nature and extent of the present and future challenges and how these could be...  Read More >>

Clusters in Urban and Regional Development

Clusters in Urban and Regional Development

Author: Andrew Cumbers (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Danny McKinnon (University of Aberdeen, UK)
ISBN: 9780415568418
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This book draws upon a range of research from Western Europe and North America to critically assess the contribution...  Read More >>

Life in Poverty Neighbourhoods: European and American Perspectives

Life in Poverty Neighbourhoods: European and American...

Author: Jürgen Friedrichs ,  George Galster
ISBN: 9780415568357
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book deals with the question of whether or not poor neighbourhoods have negative impacts on their residents,...  Read More >>

Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism

Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics...

Author: M. Thompson
ISBN: 9780230610590
Format: Hardback
$154.00

But as the essays collected here demonstrate, antiurbanism is an equally important reality as it can be seen as...  Read More >>

The Economics of Transport: A Theoretical and Applied Perspective

The Economics of Transport: A Theoretical and Applied...

Author: Jonathan Cowie ,  Stephen Ison (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415419802
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This book provides an explanation of key underlying economic principles, enabling the reader to better understand...  Read More >>

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American...

Author: Colin Gordon
ISBN: 9780812220940
Format: Paperback
$99.00

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Generations in Towns: Succession and Success in Pre-Industrial Urban Societies

Generations in Towns: Succession and Success in Pre-Industrial...

Author: Finn-Einar Eliassen ,  Katalin Szende
ISBN: 9781443813013
Format: Hardback
$103.47

The existence and changing of generations in family life, business and politics was a central feature of towns as...  Read More >>

African Diaspora and the Metropolis: Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience

African Diaspora and the Metropolis: Reading the African,...

Author: Fassil Demissie (DePaul University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415560344
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This book explores the complex roles that race, gender, sexuality and history have played in the formation of African...  Read More >>

Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements 2009

Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human...

Author: Un-Habitat ,  United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
ISBN: 9781844078998
Format: Paperback
$84.95

Reviews the major challenges currently facing cities and towns all over the world, the emergence and spread of modern...  Read More >>

Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements 2009

Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human...

Author: Un-Habitat
ISBN: 9781844078981
Format: Hardback
$199.00

Reviews the major challenges facing cities and towns all over the world, the emergence and spread of modern urban...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: David Owen ,  Patrick Girard Lawlor
ISBN: 9798200117444
Format: Audio
$47.49

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: David Owen ,  Patrick Girard Lawlor
ISBN: 9798200117437
Format: Audio
$47.49

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest...  Read More >>

The Perfect Square: A History of Rittenhouse Square

The Perfect Square: A History of Rittenhouse Square...

Author: Nancy M. Heinzen
ISBN: 9781592139880
Format: Hardback
$77.88

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Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance

Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance

Author: John Punter
ISBN: 9780415443036
Format: Paperback
$80.00

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Sustainable Cities in Europe

Sustainable Cities in Europe

Author: Peter Nijkamp ,  Adriaan Perrels
ISBN: 9781853832031
Format: Paperback
$64.95

This study provides an extensive analysis of the energy and environmental policies needed to create cities that...  Read More >>

Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities

Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism...

Author: Susan Applegate Krouse ,  Heather A. Howard-Bobiwash
ISBN: 9780803220508
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The essays in this groundbreaking anthology highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women...  Read More >>

From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II

From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet...

Author: Karl D. Qualls
ISBN: 9780801447624
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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The Subway Diaries

The Subway Diaries

Author: Heidi Kole
ISBN: 9780981970004
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Down winding tunnels and across gritty subway platforms, through her writing, both gritty and raw, Kole introduces...  Read More >>

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