Urban communities books

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Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness

Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness

Author: Catherine Ross ,  Adjo A. Amekudzi
ISBN: 9781597265850
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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Community Education and Crime Prevention: Confronting Foreground and Background Causes of Criminal Behavior

Community Education and Crime Prevention: Confronting...

Author: Carolyn Siemens Ward
ISBN: 9781593112899
Format: Paperback
$121.41

The people of Hyde Park neighborhood in St. Louis are participating in a crime prevention approach that is applicable...  Read More >>

Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges

Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and...

Author: Jane Bicknell ,  David Dodman
ISBN: 9781844077465
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Brings together a wide-and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation...  Read More >>

Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges

Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and...

Author: Jane Bicknell ,  David Dodman
ISBN: 9781844077458
Format: Hardback
$199.00

Brings together a body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change...  Read More >>

Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice

Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory...

Author: Peter Marcuse (Columbia University, USA) ,  James Connolly (Columbia University, US)
ISBN: 9780415776134
Format: Hardback
$180.00

If today’s cities are full of injustices, what would a 'Just City' look like? Contributors to this volume including...  Read More >>

Cities and Gender

Cities and Gender

Author: Helen Jarvis (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK) ,  Jonathan Cloke
ISBN: 9780415415705
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Offers a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. This book presents both a feminist critique...  Read More >>

Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia: Straddling state and society

Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and...

Author: Benjamin L. Read (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) ,  Robert Pekkanen (University of Washington, USA)
ISBN: 9780415492997
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia...  Read More >>

Cities and Gender

Cities and Gender

Author: Helen Jarvis (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK) ,  Jonathan Cloke
ISBN: 9780415415699
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Offers a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. This book presents both a feminist critique...  Read More >>

Reimagining Citizenship in Suburban Australia

Reimagining Citizenship in Suburban Australia

Author: Michele Lobo
ISBN: 9783838301501
Format: Paperback
$256.08

Conventional approaches to understanding urban inclusion and belonging focus on the process and acquisition of formal...  Read More >>

Cities and Urban Life: United States Edition

Cities and Urban Life: United States Edition

Author: John J. Macionis ,  Vincent N. Parrillo
ISBN: 9780205645336
Format: Hardback
$312.05

Cities and Urban Life, authored by two of the best-known textbook writers in the field, provides a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Gangs: A Guide to Understanding Street Gangs

Gangs: A Guide to Understanding Street Gangs

Author: Al Valdez, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781563251474
Format: Paperback
$92.37

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Razing Africville: A Geography of Racism

Razing Africville: A Geography of Racism

Author: Jennifer Nelson
ISBN: 9781442610286
Format: Paperback
$62.99

By examining a variety of sources urban planning texts, city council documents, news media, and academic accounts...  Read More >>

Addiction--What's Really Going On?: Inside a Heroin Treatment Program

Addiction--What's Really Going On?: Inside a Heroin...

Author: Deborah McCloskey ,  Barbara Sinor
ISBN: 9781932690934
Format: Paperback
$52.67

[A] truthful look into the world of Methadone treatment with a mix of compassion and humor. It is a great read for...  Read More >>

On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries

On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without...

Author: Richard Reynolds
ISBN: 9780747592976
Format: Paperback
$38.79

'I am a guerrilla gardener, one of hundreds around the world, who illicitly cultivate public space under the cover...  Read More >>

Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania

Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy...

Author: Brad Weiss
ISBN: 9780253220752
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania

Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy...

Author: Brad Weiss
ISBN: 9780253325945
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century

First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital...

Author: David Lida
ISBN: 9781594483783
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Through the eyes of an American who has become an insider, this work takes a panoramic view of contemporary Mexico...  Read More >>

Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism

Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism

Author: Julie-Anne Boudreau ,  Roger Keil
ISBN: 9781442600935
Format: Paperback
$69.99

""With an eye for global forces, this panoramic account revolves around a focus on social, spatial, and environmental...  Read More >>

Testing the Theory of Reasoned Action and Its Extensions: Predicting Intention to Use Condoms

Testing the Theory of Reasoned Action and Its Extensions:...

Author: Edward E Marandu
ISBN: 9789994455256
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This study investigates, using the Theory of Reasoned Action and its extensions, factors that determine intention...  Read More >>

City and Cosmos: The Medieval World in Urban Form

City and Cosmos: The Medieval World in Urban Form

Author: Keith D. Lilley
ISBN: 9781861894410
Format: Hardback
$129.36

An exploration of what 'the city' represented in the medieval imagination. Drawing upon original accounts, illustrations...  Read More >>

Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism

Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism

Author: Julie-Anne Boudreau ,  Roger Keil
ISBN: 9781442601338
Format: Hardback
$158.40

"""With an eye for global forces, this panoramic account revolves around a focus on social, spatial, and environmental...  Read More >>

Performance and the City

Performance and the City

Author: Kim Solga ,  S. Orr
ISBN: 9780230300491
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic...  Read More >>

Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California

Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing,...

Author: Charlotte Brooks
ISBN: 9780226075976
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors...  Read More >>

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