Urban communities books

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City After the Automobile

City After the Automobile

Author: Moshe Safdie ,  Wendy Kohn
ISBN: 9781322352701
Format: Electronic book text
$97.68

In an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? In this...  Read More >>

Greater New York Sports Chronology

Greater New York Sports Chronology

Author: Professor Jeffrey A Kroessler
ISBN: 9781322592299
Format: Electronic book text
$65.97

Jeffrey A. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the...  Read More >>

Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing...

Author: Andreas Huyssen
ISBN: 9780822342717
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Offers a look at non-Western global cities. This work focuses on urban imaginaries, the way that city dwellers perceive...  Read More >>

Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing...

Author: Andreas Huyssen
ISBN: 9780822342489
Format: Hardback
$237.47

A collection of essays that examines the effects of globalization on non-Western cities. It describes and analyzes...  Read More >>

Nightshift NYC

Nightshift NYC

Author: Russell Leigh Sharman ,  Cheryl Harris Sharman
ISBN: 9780520252714
Format: Hardback
$140.95

New York is the city that never sleeps. This book reveals a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and...  Read More >>

A Report on the World Tourism Organization International Conference on Metropolitan Tourism: Busan, Republic of Korea, 11-12 September 2007

A Report on the World Tourism Organization International...

Author: World Tourism Organization
ISBN: 9789284412747
Format: Paperback
$158.40

As part of UNWTO's pan-Asian research programme, the conference in Busan was convened following its first conference...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology: Images and Structure- (Value Pack W/Mylab Search)

Urban Sociology: Images and Structure- (Value Pack W/Mylab...

Author: William G Flanagan
ISBN: 9780205703548
Format: Mixed media product
$305.18

MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research...  Read More >>

Race, Ethnicitynd the American Urban Mainstream- (Value Pack W/Mylab Search)

Race, Ethnicitynd the American Urban Mainstream- (Value...

Author: Christopher B Doob (Southern Connecticut State University)
ISBN: 9780205705269
Format: Mixed media product
$213.66

MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research...  Read More >>

Branding Cities

Branding Cities

Author: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald ,  Eleonore Kofman (Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9781281931511
Format: Electronic book text
$357.98

Fierce competitiveness between major cities, such as London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel...  Read More >>

Qualitative Research and Social Change: European Contexts

Qualitative Research and Social Change: European Contexts...

Author: P. Cox ,  T. Geisen
ISBN: 9780230537279
Format: Hardback
$146.00

"Exploring the relationships between qualitative research and social change, this bookasks how social change is...  Read More >>

Politics and Prejudice: Small-town Blacks Battle a Corrupt System

Politics and Prejudice: Small-town Blacks Battle a Corrupt...

Author: Richard E. Harris
ISBN: 9780981650418
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"""Politics and Prejudice"" tells the story of the Black population of Chester, Pennsylvania, starting with a few...  Read More >>

Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919

Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture...

Author: Robin F. Bachin
ISBN: 9780226033945
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the...  Read More >>

Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive

Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human...

Author: Marilyn Hamilton
ISBN: 9780865716292
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Evolving city intelligences multiplies and integrates all city capacities.  Read More >>

Cities on the Edge

Cities on the Edge

Author: John Davies
ISBN: 9781846311864
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Captured through the lenses of some of the leading names in photography, Cities on the Edge provides a fascinating...  Read More >>

The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in the Old and New World

The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in the...

Author: Joyce Marcus ,  Jeremy A. Sabloff
ISBN: 9781934691021
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious,...  Read More >>

The City in 2050: Creating Blueprints for Change

The City in 2050: Creating Blueprints for Change

Author: Maureen McAvey ,  Uwe Brandes
ISBN: 9780874201277
Format: Paperback
$79.07

How can cities be shaped to meet present needs while empowering future generations to meet theirs? This book creates...  Read More >>

Urban Appropriation and Transformation: Bicycle Taxi and Handcart Operators

Urban Appropriation and Transformation: Bicycle Taxi...

Author: Ignasio Malizani Jimu ,  Bicycle Taxi and Handcart Operators
ISBN: 9789956558759
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This book is about emerging informal responses to unemployment in Malawi. To the bicycle taxi and handcart operators...  Read More >>

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis

Author: Sarah Nuttall ,  Achille Mbembe
ISBN: 9780822342847
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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State of the World's Cities 2008/9: Harmonious Cities

State of the World's Cities 2008/9: Harmonious Cities...

Author: Un-Habitat
ISBN: 9781844076963
Format: Paperback
$59.95

How can city planners harmonize the various interests, diversity and inherent contradictions within cities? What...  Read More >>

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis

Author: Sarah Nuttall ,  Achille Mbembe
ISBN: 9780822342625
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Contains essays that include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in Johannesburg, an ethnographic...  Read More >>

The Contemporary Canadian Metropolis

The Contemporary Canadian Metropolis

Author: Richard Dennis ,  Ceri Morgan
ISBN: 9781900039901
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A collection of essays that combines social science, architectural, and cultural studies perspectives on the analysis...  Read More >>

State of the World's Cities 2008/9: Harmonious Cities

State of the World's Cities 2008/9: Harmonious Cities...

Author: Un-Habitat
ISBN: 9781844076956
Format: Hardback
$192.00

Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. This report adopts...  Read More >>

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive...

Author: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
ISBN: 9780691138749
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office - or the grungy rock club that...  Read More >>

The Almanac of New York City

The Almanac of New York City

Author: Kenneth Jackson ,  Fred Kameny
ISBN: 9780231140638
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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