Urban communities books

18365 books were found.

Images of the City

Images of the City

Author: Agnieszka Rasmus ,  Magdalena Cieslak
ISBN: 9781282190030
Format: Electronic book text
$214.32

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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern...

Author: Peter Moskos
ISBN: 9781282259157
Format: Electronic book text
$79.04

When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District,...  Read More >>

My Day in the City

My Day in the City

Author: Jory Randall
ISBN: 9781282515543
Format: Electronic book text
$56.10

This captivating book focuses on the sights, architecture, and activities kids might enjoy on a visit to the city....  Read More >>

The Meaning of Activities in the Dwelling and Residential Environment: A Structural Approach in People-Environment Relations

The Meaning of Activities in the Dwelling and Residential...

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ISBN: 9781282454538
Format: Undefined
$248.16

The dwelling is a central setting in people s everyday life. People use their dwelling and residential environment...  Read More >>

Cop in the Hood

Cop in the Hood

Author: Peter Moskos
ISBN: 9781282935976
Format: Electronic book text
$55.44

When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District,...  Read More >>

Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing, and the Restoration of Urban America

Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing, and the Restoration...

Author: Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett
ISBN: 9781282351875
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

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German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1924

German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1924

Author: Senior Lecturer in Modern History Maiken Umbach (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781282348998
Format: Electronic book text
$937.73

This is a study of a distinctive brand of modernism that first emerged in late nineteenth-century Germany and remained...  Read More >>

Comparative Guide to American Suburbs

Comparative Guide to American Suburbs

Author: David Garoogian ,  David Garoogian
ISBN: 9781282242838
Format: Electronic book text
$496.32

The Comparative Guide to American Suburbs is a one-stop source for Statistics on the 2,000+ suburban communities...  Read More >>

City/Art

City/Art

Author: N Canclini ,  Adrian Gorelik
ISBN: 9781283035729
Format: Electronic book text
$224.27

In City/Art, anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative...  Read More >>

America's Top-Rated Cities

America's Top-Rated Cities

Author: David Garoogian
ISBN: 9781282242814
Format: Electronic book text
$741.84

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Contracting for Better Places: A Relational Analysis of Development Agreements in Urban Development Projects

Contracting for Better Places: A Relational Analysis...

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ISBN: 9781282454514
Format: Undefined
$306.24

Large-scale urban development projects aim to create better places in underused or deteriorated areas. For their...  Read More >>

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places...

Author: Dr Sharon Zukin (City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781283020558
Format: Electronic book text
$124.74

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as authentic urban life: aging...  Read More >>

Global Security Watch Turkey: A Reference Handbook

Global Security Watch Turkey: A Reference Handbook

Author: Mustafa Kibaroglu ,  Aysegul Kibaroglu
ISBN: 9781282340992
Format: Electronic book text
$161.04

There are a number of factors that elevate Turkey's status in the international arena and make it an important regional...  Read More >>

Fleeing the City

Fleeing the City

Author: Professor Michael J Thompson (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London) ,  Professor Michael J Thompson (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London)
ISBN: 9781282664722
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city....  Read More >>

The Jewish-Arab City: Spatio-Politics in a Mixed Community

The Jewish-Arab City: Spatio-Politics in a Mixed Community...

Author: Haim Yacobi (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
ISBN: 9781282064867
Format: Electronic book text
$468.86

Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a...  Read More >>

The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950

The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes...

Author: Leeann Lands
ISBN: 9781280491528
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

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Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America

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

Author: Robert P Inman
ISBN: 9781282457959
Format: Electronic book text
$94.88

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

America's Top-Rated Small Towns & Cities

America's Top-Rated Small Towns & Cities

Author:
ISBN: 9781282794696
Format: Electronic book text
$643.50

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Black Men Can't Shoot

Black Men Can't Shoot

Author: Scott N Brooks (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781282239425
Format: Undefined
$118.80

The myth of the natural black athlete is widespread, though it's usually only talked about when a sports commentator...  Read More >>

World in a City, The: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York

World in a City, The: Traveling the Globe Through the...

Author: Dr Joseph Berger
ISBN: 9781299126107
Format: Electronic book text
$205.52

The whole world can be found in this city. . . . -from the Preface Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful...  Read More >>

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's...

Author: Mr Anthony Flint
ISBN: 9781299213456
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

Originally published in hardcover in 2009.  Read More >>

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts...

Author: Mindy Fullilove
ISBN: 9781299019911
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

They called it progress. But for the people whose homes and districts were bulldozed, the urban renewal projects...  Read More >>

Superbia!

Superbia!

Author: Dan Chiras ,  Dave Wann
ISBN: 9781282463998
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

The only book that shows how to transform existing suburbs to create environment- and people-friendly neighborhoods......  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Joan Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9781299647268
Format: Electronic book text
$190.50

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

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