Urban communities books

18365 books were found.

Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York

Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York...

Author: Timothy Mennel ,  Jo Steffens
ISBN: 9781568987712
Format: Paperback
$47.39

""This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding."" From this first sentence of the seminal 1961...  Read More >>

Historic Cities of the Islamic World

Historic Cities of the Islamic World

Author: C. Edmund Bosworth
ISBN: 9789004153882
Format: Hardback
$739.20

 Read More >>

The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles

The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans...

Author: Scott Kurashige
ISBN: 9780691126395
Format: Hardback
$138.60

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a 'world city' characterized by multiculturalism and globalization....  Read More >>

Advances in Urban Ecology: Integrating Humans and Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems

Advances in Urban Ecology: Integrating Humans and Ecological...

Author: Marina Alberti
ISBN: 9786611180416
Format: Electronic book text
$628.32

The future of Earth's ecosystems is increasingly influenced by the pace and patterns of urbanization. Advances in...  Read More >>

Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City

Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial...

Author: William J. Glover
ISBN: 9780816650217
Format: Hardback
$89.99

Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city—once a prosperous...  Read More >>

Urban China in Transition

Urban China in Transition

Author: John Logan (Brown University)
ISBN: 9781405161466
Format: Paperback
$41.95

"Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major...  Read More >>

Urban China in Transition

Urban China in Transition

Author: John Logan (Brown University)
ISBN: 9781405161459
Format: Hardback
$124.95

"Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major...  Read More >>

Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans

Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans

Author: Joachim Henning
ISBN: 9783110183580
Format: Hardback
$388.08

Millenniumpursues an interdisciplinaryapproach transcending historical eras. The international editorial board and...  Read More >>

Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality

Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced...

Author: Loïc Wacquant (University of California at Berkeley) ,  John Howe
ISBN: 9780745631240
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader...  Read More >>

Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience

Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience

Author: Michael Bull
ISBN: 9780415257527
Format: Paperback
$78.00

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social,...  Read More >>

Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience

Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience

Author: Michael Bull
ISBN: 9780415257510
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social,...  Read More >>

Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities

Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American...

Author: Jerry Mitchell
ISBN: 9780791473092
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Examines the impact of business improvement districts on the quality of contemporary civic life.  Read More >>

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to...

Author: Sudhir Venkatesh
ISBN: 9781594201509
Format: Hardback
$68.51

 Read More >>

The Courage to Connect: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Community in Provincetown

The Courage to Connect: Sexuality, Citizenship, and...

Author: Sandra L. Faiman-Silva
ISBN: 9780252075339
Format: Paperback
$71.99

An illuminating case study of sexuality and community  Read More >>

A Father's Law

A Father's Law

Author: Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780061349164
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Wrights daughter, Julia, explains that this novel, written shortly before her fathers death, explores many themes...  Read More >>

Cities and Nature

Cities and Nature

Author: Lisa Benton-Short (George Washington University, Maryland, USA) ,  Lisa Benton-Short (George Washington University, Maryland, USA)
ISBN: 9780415355896
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities....  Read More >>

Cities and Nature

Cities and Nature

Author: Lisa Benton-Short (George Washington University, Maryland, USA) ,  Lisa Benton-Short (George Washington University, Maryland, USA)
ISBN: 9780415355889
Format: Hardback
$435.60

Illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities....  Read More >>

Governance in Ethnically Mixed Cities

Governance in Ethnically Mixed Cities

Author: Sherrill Stroschein (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415451260
Format: Hardback
$194.00

This collection of original essays breaks new ground by examining the dynamics of ethnic politics at the local level,...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List