Urban communities books

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Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-time City

Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice...

Author: Marcus Foth
ISBN: 9781605661520
Format: Hardback
$564.95

Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure...  Read More >>

The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses

The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses

Author: Thomas Gunn ,  David Faflik
ISBN: 9780813544397
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. This work is at...  Read More >>

Out of Place?: Emotional Ties to the Neighbourhood in Urban Renewal in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Out of Place?: Emotional Ties to the Neighbourhood in...

Author: Peter van der Graaf
ISBN: 9789056295592
Format: Paperback
$162.36

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The Other Global City

The Other Global City

Author: Shail Mayaram (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India)
ISBN: 9780415991940
Format: Hardback
$305.00

What is a Global City? Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the ""other global""...  Read More >>

Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City

Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and...

Author: Rob Imrie ,  Loretta Lees (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415433679
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities....  Read More >>

The Idea of the City: Early-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern Locations and Communities

The Idea of the City: Early-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern...

Author: Joan Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9781443801461
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This collection of essays emerges from a two-day international conference held at the University of Northampton,...  Read More >>

Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City

Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and...

Author: Rob Imrie ,  Loretta Lees (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415433662
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities....  Read More >>

Origins of the Pacific War and the Importance of 'Magic'

Origins of the Pacific War and the Importance of 'Magic'...

Author: Florian Urban ,  Keiichiro Komatsu (Komatsu Research & Advisory, UK)
ISBN: 9780415489980
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Argues that in the final phase of the eight months of US-Japan talks leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor, serious...  Read More >>

Older Adult-Led Health Promotion in Urban Communities: Models and Interventions

Older Adult-Led Health Promotion in Urban Communities:...

Author: Melvin Delgado
ISBN: 9780742563353
Format: Hardback
$142.95

The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's...  Read More >>

Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture

Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture...

Author: Carl A. Maida
ISBN: 9780759111325
Format: Hardback
$142.95

In Pathways through Crisis, Carl Maida describes how communities tend (and need) to develop ""grass roots"" solutions...  Read More >>

Whose Urban Renaissance?: An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies

Whose Urban Renaissance?: An international comparison...

Author: Libby Porter ,  Kate Shaw
ISBN: 9780415456821
Format: Hardback
$224.00

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City Out of Chaos

City Out of Chaos

Author: R M Pulselli ,  E Tiezzi
ISBN: 9786613702470
Format: Electronic book text
$367.49

The historical trends in each legal tradition are outlined, as well as present day regulation, using a multitude...  Read More >>

The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses

The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses

Author: Thomas Gunn ,  David Faflik
ISBN: 9780813544403
Format: Paperback
$63.23

The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for...  Read More >>

Sprawl and Politics: The Inside Story of Smart Growth in Maryland

Sprawl and Politics: The Inside Story of Smart Growth...

Author: John W. Frece ,  Gerrit-Jan Knaap
ISBN: 9780791474129
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Presents an account of the origin, enactment, and implementation of Maryland's Smart Growth land use program begun...  Read More >>

Fort Stanwix National Monument: Reconstructing the Past and Partnering for the Future

Fort Stanwix National Monument: Reconstructing the Past...

Author: Joan M. Zenzen
ISBN: 9780791474341
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Presents the history of the reconstruction of Fort Stanwix, New York, by the National Park Service.  Read More >>

Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities

Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American...

Author: Jerry Mitchell
ISBN: 9780791473108
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Examines the impact of business improvement districts on the quality of contemporary civic life.  Read More >>

Shanghai Contemporary: The Politics of Built Form How Divergent Planning Methods Transformed Shanghai's Urban Identity Foreword by Stanford Anderson

Shanghai Contemporary: The Politics of Built Form How...

Author: Non Arkaraprasertkul
ISBN: 9783639091878
Format: Paperback
$293.04

This book is an attempt to understand the phenomenon of urban transformation in Shanghai, one of the world's fastest...  Read More >>

Montenegro: A Modern History

Montenegro: A Modern History

Author:
ISBN: 9781282619043
Format: Electronic book text
$158.24

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The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the City

The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the...

Author: Sim Van der Ryn ,  Farallones Institute
ISBN: 9781897408162
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Long considered the bible of urban homesteading  Read More >>

Crisis of Urban Middle Class

Crisis of Urban Middle Class

Author: Vinita Pandey
ISBN: 9788131602171
Format: Paperback
$105.60

The emergence of the middle class in modern India is largely due to the introduction of English education by the...  Read More >>

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to...

Author: Sudhir Venkatesh
ISBN: 9780143114932
Format: Paperback
$42.24

"First introduced in ""Freakonomics,"" here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology graduate student...  Read More >>

Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms

Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India: The Social...

Author: Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase (University of Wollongong, Australia) ,  Timothy J. Scrase (University of Wollongong, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415441162
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This book fills an important gap in the literature published so far on economic liberalisation and globalisation...  Read More >>

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