Urban communities books

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City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row

City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row...

Author: Bill Ayers ,  Patricia Ford
ISBN: 9781565840515
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This collection of 25 essays explores the realities of US city classrooms from kindergarten through to high school.It...  Read More >>

Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia,...

Author: M. Rieker ,  K. Ali
ISBN: 9781403975232
Format: Hardback
$120.00

The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle...  Read More >>

Railways and the Western European Capitals: Studies of Implantation in London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels

Railways and the Western European Capitals: Studies...

Author: M. Nilsen
ISBN: 9780230607736
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This book looks at the effect of railways on London, Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, focusing on each city as a case...  Read More >>

Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations, and Identities

Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations, and Identities...

Author: Michael Peter Smith ,  John Eade
ISBN: 9781412808064
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the...  Read More >>

The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster

The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond...

Author: J. Coaffee ,  D. Murakami Wood
ISBN: 9780230546738
Format: Hardback
$168.00

This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources...  Read More >>

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: 9786611827823
Format: Electronic book text
$1399.20

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

City Out of Chaos

City Out of Chaos

Author: R M Pulselli ,  E Tiezzi
ISBN: 9781280792083
Format: Electronic book text
$306.24

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Minorites Nationales: Souffle de Diversite, Souffle D Europe (Bilingue Anglais)

Minorites Nationales: Souffle de Diversite, Souffle...

Author:
ISBN: 9781282132061
Format: Electronic book text
$121.44

Minorites nationales. Un terme abstrait qui renvoie a des realites complexes, celles de personnes qui, du fait du...  Read More >>

County and City Extra 2009

County and City Extra 2009

Author: Deirdre A Gaquin
ISBN: 9781282523456
Format: Undefined
$316.77

When you want only one source of information about your city or county, turn to County and City Extra This trusted...  Read More >>

People and Space

People and Space

Author: Silvano Tagliagambe Giovanni Maciocco
ISBN: 9781282127395
Format: Undefined
$366.96

Explores different forms and modalities of relations between people and space that affect the life of the city....  Read More >>

Bargaining for Brooklyn

Bargaining for Brooklyn

Author: Nicole P Marwell
ISBN: 9781282070042
Format: Undefined
$171.60

When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital...  Read More >>

Making Cities Work

Making Cities Work

Author: Robert P Inman
ISBN: 9781282936027
Format: Electronic book text
$258.72

Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives...  Read More >>

Building Cycles

Building Cycles

Author: Richard Barras (Senior Partner, Property Market Analysis LLP)
ISBN: 9781282278493
Format: Electronic book text
$345.84

The global economic crisis of 2008 was precipitated by a housing market crash, thus highlighting the destabilizing...  Read More >>

America at Risk

America at Risk

Author: Robert Perrucci (Purdue University) ,  Carolyn C Perrucci (Purdue University)
ISBN: 9781282497221
Format: Electronic book text
$63.33

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Downtown America

Downtown America

Author: Alison Isenberg
ISBN: 9781282504264
Format: Undefined
$118.80

Downtown America was once the vibrant urban center romanticized in the Petula Clark song a place where the lights...  Read More >>

Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail

Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail

Author: Jacqueline Nassy Brown
ISBN: 9781282935389
Format: Electronic book text
$223.08

The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly...  Read More >>

Hebron Jews

Hebron Jews

Author: Professor Jerold S Auerbach (Wellesley College)
ISBN: 9781282497146
Format: Electronic book text
$97.65

Hebron Jews explores the history of the Jews of Hebron, the oldest...  Read More >>

Designing High-Density Cities: For Social and Environmental Sustainability

Designing High-Density Cities: For Social and Environmental...

Author: Edward Ng (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781282506053
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths...  Read More >>

How It Works

How It Works

Author: Robert P Fairbanks, II
ISBN: 9781282426382
Format: Undefined
$198.00

Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Taken as a...  Read More >>

World Cities: Achieving Liveability and Vibrancy

World Cities: Achieving Liveability and Vibrancy

Author:
ISBN: 9781282761247
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

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Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s?1900s

Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s?1900s...

Author: Dorceta E Taylor
ISBN: 9781283036481
Format: Electronic book text
$263.87

This wide-ranging study of urban environmental history draws our attention to environmental challenges faced by...  Read More >>

Rethinking the Informal City

Rethinking the Informal City

Author: Felipe Ndez ,  Peter Kellett
ISBN: 9781282628199
Format: Electronic book text
$380.16

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their...  Read More >>

Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience

Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the...

Author: Janet Stewart
ISBN: 9781282665163
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

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Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective

Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective

Author:
ISBN: 9781282457478
Format: Electronic book text
$316.67

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