Urban communities books

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The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life

The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life...

Author: Richard Sennett
ISBN: 9780300148275
Format: Paperback
$51.75

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Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes

Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes...

Author: J. Barry Cullingworth ,  Roger Caves (San Diego State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415774208
Format: Hardback
$580.80

Offers an introduction to the policies and practices of planning. Discussing land use, urban planning and environmental...  Read More >>

Another Global City: Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850–2000

Another Global City: Historical Explorations into the...

Author: P. Saunier ,  Shane Ewen
ISBN: 9780230606630
Format: Hardback
$140.00

"This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and...  Read More >>

Traffic jam: Ten years of 'sustainable' transport in the UK

Traffic jam: Ten years of 'sustainable' transport in...

Author: Iain Docherty ,  Jon Shaw
ISBN: 9781847423696
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

Offers an analysis of the UK government's sustainable - or subsequently 'integrated' - transport policy 10 years...  Read More >>

Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers

Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and...

Author: Jessica Trounstine
ISBN: 9780226812823
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Asks whether bosses and reformers are more alike than we might have realized. This title finds that the answer -...  Read More >>

Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers

Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and...

Author: Jessica Trounstine
ISBN: 9780226812816
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Asks whether bosses and reformers are more alike than we might have realized. This title finds that the answer -...  Read More >>

A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City

A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City

Author: Despina Stratigakos
ISBN: 9780816653232
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of...  Read More >>

A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City

A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City

Author: Despina Stratigakos
ISBN: 9780816653225
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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Transitions: Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Development in Australia

Transitions: Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Development...

Author: Peter W. Newton
ISBN: 9781402088124
Format: Hardback
$815.76

This volume identifies challenges to the resilience of Australia's cities and regions that flow from a range of...  Read More >>

Why New Orleans Matters

Why New Orleans Matters

Author: Tom Piazza
ISBN: 9780061131509
Format: Paperback
$28.91

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, award-winning novelist, cultural critic, and New Orleans resident Piazza began...  Read More >>

Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City

Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in...

Author: Mary Pattillo
ISBN: 9780226649320
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood - Oakland neighborhood...  Read More >>

The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and...

Author: Max Page
ISBN: 9780300110265
Format: Hardback
$99.00

Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York's destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out...  Read More >>

The City in Southeast Asia: Patterns, Processes and Policy

The City in Southeast Asia: Patterns, Processes and...

Author: Peter J. Rimmer ,  Dick Howard
ISBN: 9780824833138
Format: Paperback
$89.76

"The City in Southeast Asia explores the ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City. Under...  Read More >>

The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville

The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of...

Author: Derek S. Hyra
ISBN: 9780226366043
Format: Hardback
$47.95

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Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space...

Author: Ross King
ISBN: 9780824833183
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Arguably Southeast Asia's most spectacular city, Kuala Lumpur has just celebrated 50 years as the national capital...  Read More >>

Migrants To the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities

Migrants To the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway...

Author: Marie Price ,  Lisa Benton-Short
ISBN: 9780815631613
Format: Hardback
$118.80

A collection of essays examining contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host...  Read More >>

Public Istanbul: Spaces and Spheres of the Urban

Public Istanbul: Spaces and Spheres of the Urban

Author: Frank Eckardt ,  Kathrin Wildner
ISBN: 9783899428650
Format: Paperback
$139.79

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The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany

The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very...

Author: Ingo Niermann ,  Adriano Sack
ISBN: 9780452289918
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"Following in the tradition of ""The Ultimate Book of Useless Information,"" this work is a wry potpourri of interesting...  Read More >>

Railways and the Western European Capitals

Railways and the Western European Capitals

Author: Micheline Nilsen
ISBN: 9786613839985
Format: Electronic book text
$300.96

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

The Community Life of Older People in Ireland

The Community Life of Older People in Ireland

Author: Carmel Gallagher
ISBN: 9783039113866
Format: Paperback
$151.89

This book is a contemporary sociological account of the lives of older people in two different communities in Ireland,...  Read More >>

Medieval Towns: A Reader

Medieval Towns: A Reader

Author: Maryanne Kowaleski
ISBN: 9781442600911
Format: Paperback
$89.99

""Medieval Towns will become a standard sourcebook."" - Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History, Columbia...  Read More >>

The Challenge of Social Innovation in Urban Revitalization

The Challenge of Social Innovation in Urban Revitalization...

Author: Paul Drewe ,  Jean-Luis Klein
ISBN: 9789085940180
Format: Paperback
$99.95

Looks at bottom up initiatives, where residents and local organizations took charge and took risks to improve their...  Read More >>

Principles of Urban Structure

Principles of Urban Structure

Author: Nikos A. Salingaros
ISBN: 9789085940012
Format: Paperback
$166.32

Explains how cities actually work, and aims to provide planners with a guide to re-humanize the cities using the...  Read More >>

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