Urban communities books

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Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco

Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San...

Author: Philip J. Dreyfus
ISBN: 9780806139586
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions...  Read More >>

Performance and the City

Performance and the City

Author: Kim Solga ,  S. Orr
ISBN: 9780230204973
Format: Hardback
$140.00

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

The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia

The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia...

Author: Isolde Brade (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany) ,  Konstantin Axenov (St Petersburg State University, Russia)
ISBN: 9780415545846
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Making an important contribution to the theoretical literature of urbanism and post-communist transition, this significant...  Read More >>

Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making...

Author: Richard Florida
ISBN: 9780465013531
Format: Paperback
$31.99

Reports on the body of research on what qualities of cities and towns actually make people happy in their lives....  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: 9780774815352
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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

Fashioning Old and New. Changing Consumer Patterns in Europe (1650-1900)

Fashioning Old and New. Changing Consumer Patterns in...

Author: Bruno Blonde ,  Natacha Coquery
ISBN: 9782503528786
Format: Paperback
$248.16

A continuing 'cry for the new', it is said, drives present-day consumerism. People are producing and buying new...  Read More >>

Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World

Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing...

Author: Jeb Brugmann
ISBN: 9781596915664
Format: Hardback
$71.28

A leading expert in urban development offers a powerful reappraisal of the role cities and their inhabitants have...  Read More >>

Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England

Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place...

Author: B. Rogaly ,  B. Taylor
ISBN: 9780230295384
Format: Paperback
$84.99

A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over...  Read More >>

Cities, Citizens, and Technologies: Urban Life and Postmodernity

Cities, Citizens, and Technologies: Urban Life and Postmodernity...

Author: Paula Geyh
ISBN: 9780415991728
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Shows how contemporary postmodern cities and their inhabitants have been transformed by the forces of globalization...  Read More >>

Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England

Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place...

Author: B. Rogaly ,  B. Taylor
ISBN: 9780230219939
Format: Hardback
$154.00

A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over...  Read More >>

Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies,...

Author: Michael Gross
ISBN: 9780767924887
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Filled with the juicy details of the lives of the powerful players who made the Metropolitan Museum of Art what...  Read More >>

Searching for community: Representation, power and action on an urban estate

Searching for community: Representation, power and action...

Author: Jeremy Brent
ISBN: 9781847423252
Format: Electronic book text
$303.60

Presents a variety of perspectives to challenge the ways in which areas of poverty and disrepute are represented....  Read More >>

Beyond Race: A New Vision of Community in America

Beyond Race: A New Vision of Community in America

Author: Peter Ogom Nwosu
ISBN: 9781599070384
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Beyond Race is a serious and scholarly non-fiction work about communication, race, and public policy in America...  Read More >>

Meeting Places of Transformation. Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St. Petersburg, Russia

Meeting Places of Transformation. Urban Identity, Spatial...

Author: Thomas Borén ,  Andreas Umland
ISBN: 9783898217392
Format: Paperback
$77.63

The study could be also helpful to professionals working in fields related to post-Soviet urban identity, spatial...  Read More >>

Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities

Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American...

Author: Jeff Mapes
ISBN: 9780870714191
Format: Paperback
$52.67

In a world of growing traffic congestion, expensive oil, and threats of cataclysmic climate change, a grassroots...  Read More >>

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

Author: Carolyn Steel
ISBN: 9780099531685
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence. This title reveals...  Read More >>

People and Space

People and Space

Author: Giovanni Maciocco ,  Silvano Tagliagambe
ISBN: 9781402099458
Format: Undefined
$65.87

<p>Some believe the loss of our relationship with place reflects the breakdown in the relationship between ethics...  Read More >>

Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities

Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities

Author: Melissa Butcher ,  Selvaraj Velayutham (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415491426
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This book seeks to document urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and...  Read More >>

Wind Energy - The Facts: A Guide to the Technology, Economics and Future of Wind Power

Wind Energy - The Facts: A Guide to the Technology,...

Author: European Wind Energy Association
ISBN: 9781844077106
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This book, the result of an ambitious project coordinated by the European Wind Energy Association, aims to present...  Read More >>

Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Change

Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Change

Author: Karl E. Taeuber ,  Karl E. Taeuber
ISBN: 9780202362793
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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The Politics of Civic Space in Asia: Building Urban Communities

The Politics of Civic Space in Asia: Building Urban...

Author: Amrita Daniere (University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada) ,  Professor and Chair Department of Urban and Regional Planning Mike Douglass (University of Hawaii, USA University of Hawaii)
ISBN: 9781281787125
Format: Electronic book text
$887.04

This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance...  Read More >>

Kaftan, Kreuz Und Kopftuch: Religiose Koexistenz Im Urbanen Raum (15.-20. Jahrhundert)

Kaftan, Kreuz Und Kopftuch: Religiose Koexistenz Im...

Author: Jan F Missfelder ,  Andreas Schmauder
ISBN: 9783799564359
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Parallelgesellschaften sind nicht erst ein Phanomen zeitgenossischer Metropolen. Schon seit Jahrhunderten lebten...  Read More >>

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