Urban communities books

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Urban Sprawl and Spatial Planning

Urban Sprawl and Spatial Planning

Author: Cecilia Marengo
ISBN: 9789078658108
Format: Paperback
$227.04

Marengo presents a study of spatial planning in a context of high social inequity. The analysis is focused on the...  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: 9780791476932
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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

Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital

Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital...

Author: George A. Gonzalez
ISBN: 9780791493892
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy...  Read More >>

Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives

Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives

Author: Christine Bose (SUNY at Albany, USA) ,  Minjeong Kim (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415952705
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist sociological gender research...  Read More >>

Down and Out in Philadelphia and New York

Down and Out in Philadelphia and New York

Author: Garret Godwin
ISBN: 9781606939482
Format: Hardback
$69.96

Down and Out in Philadelphia and New York is a contemplative look at two great American cities. Godwin's narrator...  Read More >>

Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis: Ho Chi Minh City in Comparative Perspectives

Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese...

Author: Hy Van Luong
ISBN: 9789971694555
Format: Paperback
$73.92

A study that presents the results of a major interdisciplinary research project that gathered data on more than...  Read More >>

Urban Society

Urban Society

Author: Myron Alfred Levine
ISBN: 9780078127717
Format: Paperback
$113.52

Offers access to a range of articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals. This title...  Read More >>

Road, River, and Ol' Boy Politics: A Texas County's Path from Farm to Supersuburb

Road, River, and Ol' Boy Politics: A Texas County's...

Author: Linda Scarbrough
ISBN: 9780876112359
Format: Paperback
$60.59

In 1946 Williamson County was profoundly rural, centered on an agricultural economy, ethnically diverse, and Democratic....  Read More >>

Urban Dynamics in Black Africa: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Urban Dynamics in Black Africa: An Interdisciplinary...

Author: William J. Hanna ,  Judith L. Hanna
ISBN: 9780202362731
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Urban Dynamics in Black Africa presents a succession of worlds where we can study the development and the crystallization...  Read More >>

Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities

Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities

Author: Julie Abraham
ISBN: 9780816638185
Format: Hardback
$35.99

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Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America

Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban...

Author: Robert Inman
ISBN: 9780691131054
Format: Paperback
$87.99

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Engaging the Community in Decision Making: Case Studies Tracking Participation, Voice and Influence

Engaging the Community in Decision Making: Case Studies...

Author: Roz Diane Lasker ,  John A. Guidry
ISBN: 9780786443123
Format: Paperback
$60.50

The field of community participation has promised to give people formerly excluded from decision making an influential...  Read More >>

Corporate Social Responsibility and Urban Development: Lessons from the South

Corporate Social Responsibility and Urban Development:...

Author: E. Werna ,  R. Keivani
ISBN: 9781349357499
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Urban development cooperation needs innovative solutions. Despite many efforts, international assistance has failed...  Read More >>

Corporate Social Responsibility and Urban Development: Lessons from the South

Corporate Social Responsibility and Urban Development:...

Author: E. Werna ,  R. Keivani
ISBN: 9780230525320
Format: Hardback
$146.00

Urban development cooperation needs innovative solutions. Despite many efforts, international assistance has failed...  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: 9780791493519
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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

Mercy: A Novel

Mercy: A Novel

Author: Alissa York
ISBN: 9781883285326
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Originally published: Toronto: Random House Canada, 2003.  Read More >>

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

Author: Steven Steven Salm (Customer) ,  Professor Toyin Falola (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781580463140
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving...  Read More >>

Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-Hop Artist KRS-ONE

Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-Hop...

Author: Priya Parmar
ISBN: 9789077874509
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-hop Artist KRS-ONE argues for the inclusionary practice of...  Read More >>

Expansive Discourses: Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945–1978

Expansive Discourses: Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945–1978...

Author: Max Foran
ISBN: 9781897425138
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A groundbreaking study of how and why the interactions between local government and land developers in Calgary after...  Read More >>

Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-Hop Artist KRS-ONE

Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-Hop...

Author: Priya Parmar
ISBN: 9789077874646
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-hop Artist KRS-ONE argues for the inclusionary practice of...  Read More >>

Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground

Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground...

Author: Gregory J. Snyder
ISBN: 9780814740453
Format: Hardback
$193.00

A journey deep into the underworld of graffiti artists  Read More >>

MEDIACITY. Situations, Practices and Encounters

MEDIACITY. Situations, Practices and Encounters

Author: Frank Eckardt ,  Jens Geelhaar
ISBN: 9783865961822
Format: Paperback
$219.12

MEDIACITY: Situations, Practices and Encounters investigates how the social settings and spaces of the city are...  Read More >>

City Out of Chaos: Urban Self Organization and Sustainability

City Out of Chaos: Urban Self Organization and Sustainability...

Author: Riccardo Pulselli ,  Enzo Tiezzi
ISBN: 9781845641337
Format: Hardback
$306.24

The rhythms of technology and nature are out of phase. Man-made perturbations, even small ones, can trigger large-scale...  Read More >>

A Theory of Urbanity: The Economic and Civic Culture of Cities

A Theory of Urbanity: The Economic and Civic Culture...

Author: Anton Zijderveld
ISBN: 9781412808200
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Cities provide for people, not just functionally in terms of jobs, obligations and practical pursuits, but also,...  Read More >>

Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America

Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America...

Author: Wei Li
ISBN: 9780824830656
Format: Hardback
$147.84

Presents a model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. This...  Read More >>

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