Urban communities books

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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American...

Author: Colin Gordon
ISBN: 9780812240702
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Mapping Decline, illustrated with more than 75 full-color maps, traces the ways private real estate restrictions,...  Read More >>

Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society

Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil...

Author: Michiel Dehaene (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) ,  Lieven De Cauter
ISBN: 9780415422888
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Heterotopia and the City offers new explorations of Foucault's concept of ‘heterotopia’. The book brings together...  Read More >>

Advances in Building Energy Research

Advances in Building Energy Research

Author: Mat Santamouris
ISBN: 9786611827229
Format: Electronic book text
$1848.00

Advances in Building Energy Research offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance...  Read More >>

Kitchen Capitalism: Microenterprise in Low-Income Households

Kitchen Capitalism: Microenterprise in Low-Income Households...

Author: Margaret Sherrard Sherraden ,  Cynthia K. Sanders
ISBN: 9780791461723
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Examines self-employment from the perspectives of low-income entrepreneurs.  Read More >>

Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs

Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War...

Author: Noel A. Cazenave
ISBN: 9780791471609
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explores how community action programs used federal funds to sponsor social protest-based community reform.  Read More >>

Economic Development in American Cities: The Pursuit of an Equity Agenda

Economic Development in American Cities: The Pursuit...

Author: Michael I. J. Bennett ,  Robert P. Giloth
ISBN: 9780791471340
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Evaluates the impact of equity investments in five cities during the 1990s.  Read More >>

The Limits to Travel

The Limits to Travel

Author: David Metz
ISBN: 9786611827403
Format: Electronic book text
$422.14

As affluence grows, it gets easier to travel faster and further. But research shows that, despite this, the average...  Read More >>

Rational Thinking

Rational Thinking

Author: Joseph A Bailey
ISBN: 9781595942555
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Overlooked America

Overlooked America

Author: Editors of Planning Magazine
ISBN: 9781932364507
Format: Paperback
$118.67

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Griffith Review 20: Cities on the Edge

Griffith Review 20: Cities on the Edge

Author: Julianne Schultz
ISBN: 9780733322822
Format: Paperback
$19.95

How can cities become more sustainable in this time of population growth and climate change? Australian contributors....  Read More >>

Metroburbia, USA

Metroburbia, USA

Author: Paul Knox
ISBN: 9786611776466
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme...  Read More >>

Metroburbia, USA

Metroburbia, USA

Author: Paul Knox (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
ISBN: 9781281776464
Format: Electronic book text
$63.36

Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme...  Read More >>

Towards Safe City Centres?: Remaking the Spaces of an Old-Industrial City

Towards Safe City Centres?: Remaking the Spaces of an...

Author: Gesa Helms ,  Dr. Mark Boyle
ISBN: 9780754648048
Format: Hardback
$194.00

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The Marvel of Leinefelde: A Town Reinvents Itself

The Marvel of Leinefelde: A Town Reinvents Itself

Author: Gerhard Zwickert ,  Wolfgang Kil
ISBN: 9783940319388
Format: Hardback
$76.56

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Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas

Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: M. Dantas
ISBN: 9781403975768
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments...  Read More >>

Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester. Routledge Studies in Human Geography.

Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona...

Author: Monica Degen
ISBN: 9786611456740
Format: Electronic book text
$887.04

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Tracing Mobilities: Towards a Cosmopolitan Perspective

Tracing Mobilities: Towards a Cosmopolitan Perspective...

Author: Weert Canzler ,  Vincent Kaufmann
ISBN: 9780754648680
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality and globality....  Read More >>

The London Underworld In The Victorian Period - Authentic First-Person Accounts By Beggars, Thieves And Prostitutes

The London Underworld In The Victorian Period - Authentic...

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781409727620
Format: Paperback
$83.03

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present

The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America...

Author: Martin Melosi
ISBN: 9780822959830
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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Vulnerable Cities:: Realities, Innovations and Strategies

Vulnerable Cities:: Realities, Innovations and Strategies...

Author: Tetsuo Kidokoro ,  Junichiro Okata
ISBN: 9784431781486
Format: Hardback
$287.76

In developing countries, vulnerable urban space can be observed typically as substandard informal settlements such...  Read More >>

Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability

Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability...

Author: Michael S Hamilton ,  Patricia Sue Atkins
ISBN: 9780765617699
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Focuses on the role of regions in addressing and resolving local governance problems. This book provides a systematic...  Read More >>

The Geography of Towns

The Geography of Towns

Author: Arthur E. Smailes
ISBN: 9780202309965
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community

Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community

Author: John Newson ,  Elizabeth Newson
ISBN: 9780202362298
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community investigates the behavior and attitudes of 709 mothers towards...  Read More >>

A Companion to American Urban History

A Companion to American Urban History

Author: David Quigley
ISBN: 9781405150811
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This Companion provides a definitive overview of the field of American urban history. With contributions from leading...  Read More >>

Art of Darkness: Ingenious Performances by Undercover Operators, Con Men, and Others

Art of Darkness: Ingenious Performances by Undercover...

Author: Sara K Schneider
ISBN: 9780979309304
Format: Paperback
$33.64

"Just like Scheherazade, undercover agents talk to save their lives. If they put in a poor performance, they don't...  Read More >>

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