Urban communities books

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Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia

Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem...

Author: Richard Baxstrom
ISBN: 9780804758918
Format: Hardback
$104.95

Tells about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one...  Read More >>

GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences: Coding, Mapping, and Modeling

GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences: Coding,...

Author: Robert Nash Parker (University of California, Riverside, USA) ,  Emily K. Asencio (University of California, Riverside, USA)
ISBN: 9780415989626
Format: Paperback
$106.00

GIS is a methodological and conceptual approach that allows for the linking together of spatial data, or data that...  Read More >>

Restructuring the Philadelphia Region: Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality

Restructuring the Philadelphia Region: Metropolitan...

Author: Carolyn Adams ,  David Bartelt
ISBN: 9786611973315
Format: Electronic book text
$403.92

Presents the investigations about metropolitan inequalities in America's large urban regions. This title discovers...  Read More >>

Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City

Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City

Author: Talja Blokland ,  Mike Savage
ISBN: 9780754672012
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics: Results of Rapid Assessment of HIV/AIDS in Eleven U.S. Cities

When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics: Results...

Author: Benjamin P. Bowser ,  Ernest Quimby
ISBN: 9780739129494
Format: Paperback
$61.95

When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics is a detailed ethnographic description of the AIDS epidemic in ten...  Read More >>

Cities Design and Evolution

Cities Design and Evolution

Author: Stephen Marshall (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415423298
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This book explores an interpretation of the urban environment as an evolutionary entity. Its multi-disciplinary...  Read More >>

America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities

America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities

Author: Laura Mars-Proietti
ISBN: 9781592372843
Format: Paperback
$514.80

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Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium

Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium

Author: Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780199290444
Format: Hardback
$151.95

Drawing on his successful Lindahl lectures, Edward Glaeser provides a rigorous account of his research and unique...  Read More >>

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

Author: Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781844672479
Format: Paperback
$36.00

Presenting an account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape, this title shows that this is a demographic...  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: 9780815631866
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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

As If!

As If!

Author: Barry Levy
ISBN: 9781876819804
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This book is racy, with a pace reminiscent of an early Henry Miller, getting you involved in its poetically drawn...  Read More >>

Cities Through the Looking Glass: Essays on the History and Archaeology of Biblical Urbanism

Cities Through the Looking Glass: Essays on the History...

Author: Rami Arav
ISBN: 9781575061429
Format: Hardback
$73.65

Includes essays originated as papers presented at the Conference on Urbanism in the Biblical World that took place...  Read More >>

Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville

Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville...

Author: Michelle R. Boyd
ISBN: 9780816646777
Format: Hardback
$150.48

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Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory

Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory

Author: Chris Rumford
ISBN: 9780415390675
Format: Hardback
$185.00

The book advances a provocative critical reading of both globalization theory and contemporary Europe. Concerned...  Read More >>

Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia: The Social Production of Civic Spaces

Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific...

Author: Professor and Chair Department of Urban and Regional Planning Mike Douglass (University of Hawaii, USA University of Hawaii) ,  Senior Lecturer Department of Sociology Kong Chong Ho (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9781281018137
Format: Electronic book text
$844.80

Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia presents a detailed examination of the underlying issues...  Read More >>

Youth and the City in the Global South

Youth and the City in the Global South

Author: Karen Tranberg Hansen
ISBN: 9780253219695
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Vietnam, and Zambia, this volume integrates youth studies with urban...  Read More >>

Youth and the City in the Global South

Youth and the City in the Global South

Author: Karen Tranberg Hansen
ISBN: 9780253351098
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Preserve and Rebuild: Dresden During the Transformations of 1989-1990: Architecture, Citizens Initiatives, and Local Identities

Preserve and Rebuild: Dresden During the Transformations...

Author: Victoria Knebel
ISBN: 9780820487427
Format: Paperback
$123.95

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitiy of Edinburgh, 2005.  Read More >>

Hungry City

Hungry City

Author: Carolyn Steel
ISBN: 9780701180379
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence. This book reveals that...  Read More >>

Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places...

Author: Henry Shaftoe
ISBN: 9781844073887
Format: Hardback
$108.00

Demonstrates that successful urban public spaces are an essential part of a sustainable built environment. Taking...  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: 9780791474112
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Offers an account of the origin, enactment, and implementation of Marylands Smart Growth land use program begun...  Read More >>

Instant Cities

Instant Cities

Author: Herbert Wright
ISBN: 9781906155346
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Explores and assesses the phenomenon of the contemporary metropolis. Touching on the historical context of humanity's...  Read More >>

Gardens, City Life and Culture: A World Tour

Gardens, City Life and Culture: A World Tour

Author: Michel Conan ,  Wangheng Chen
ISBN: 9780884023289
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Considering various cities, this book presents the different roles of gardens in cultural development and social...  Read More >>

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