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Getting Out The Game: A Novel Based On True Events and Experiences

Getting Out The Game: A Novel Based On True Events and...

Author: Omar Powell
ISBN: 9781432709730
Format: Paperback
$47.39

GETTING OUT THE GAME IS HARD! After losing his father at age six, Javon Taylor, known in the streets as J.,...  Read More >>

Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization and Urban Ecology of Homelessness

Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization and...

Author: Randall Amster
ISBN: 9781593322977
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Amster explores the historical and contemporary implications of homelessness as a social and spatial problem, drawing...  Read More >>

Die Region: Eine Begriffsbestimmung Am Fall Des Ruhrgebiets

Die Region: Eine Begriffsbestimmung Am Fall Des Ruhrgebiets...

Author: Thomas Loer
ISBN: 9783828204126
Format: Paperback
$87.98

"Keine ausf�hrliche Beschreibung f�r ""Die Region"" verf�gbar."  Read More >>

Global Perspectives on Urbanization: Essays in Honor of Debnath Mookherjee

Global Perspectives on Urbanization: Essays in Honor...

Author: George Pomeroy ,  Gerald Webster
ISBN: 9780761839095
Format: Hardback
$158.27

The emerging and continuing challenge of cities and urbanization has become a forefront in current global concerns....  Read More >>

THE CITY IN ACTION

THE CITY IN ACTION

Author: Jim Masselos (, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780195679298
Format: Hardback
$51.95

This collection of 14 essays revisits the city of Mumbai and the many facets of its political life from the late...  Read More >>

Inside the Graffiti Subculture

Inside the Graffiti Subculture

Author: Russell M Jones
ISBN: 9783836436632
Format: Paperback
$142.56

"Illegal graffiti is disconnected from standard modes of visual production in fine art and design. The primary purpose...  Read More >>

Game of Kings: A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Ches s Team

Game of Kings: A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses...

Author: Michael Weinreb
ISBN: 9781592403387
Format: Paperback
$39.60

At Brooklyn's prestigious Edward R. Murrow High School, the closest thing to jocks are found on the powerhouse chess...  Read More >>

The Works: Anatomy of a City

The Works: Anatomy of a City

Author: Kate Ascher
ISBN: 9780143112709
Format: Paperback
$65.00

Offering a cross section of hidden infrastructure, this title uses innovative graphic images and clear text explanations...  Read More >>

On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

Author: David Grazian
ISBN: 9786611956929
Format: Electronic book text
$132.00

Takes you on a tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene that reveals the city as an...  Read More >>

Cities and Society

Cities and Society

Author: Nancy Kleniewski (SUNY Oneonta)
ISBN: 9781281214256
Format: Electronic book text
$361.55

This distinctive anthology contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on...  Read More >>

Money Jungle: Imagining the New Times Square

Money Jungle: Imagining the New Times Square

Author: Benjamin Chesluk
ISBN: 9781281224217
Format: Electronic book text
$44.88

For more than a century, Times Square has mesmerized the world with the spectacle of its dazzling supersigns, its...  Read More >>

The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design

The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design...

Author: Alexander Cuthbert (The University of New South Wales, Australia.)
ISBN: 9781281319272
Format: Electronic book text
$308.75

The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates...  Read More >>

Cities of Europe

Cities of Europe

Author: Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino)
ISBN: 9781281312013
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations...  Read More >>

Urbicide

Urbicide

Author: Martin Coward (University of Newcastle, UK)
ISBN: 9781281787286
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

The term urbicide became popular during the 1992-95 Bosnian war as a way of referring to widespread and deliberate...  Read More >>

Framing Discourse on the Environment. Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse, Volume 1.

Framing Discourse on the Environment. Routledge Critical...

Author: Richard Alexander (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria)
ISBN: 9781281753311
Format: Electronic book text
$359.04

In this study, Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse...  Read More >>

Military Geographies

Military Geographies

Author: Rachel Woodward (University of Newcastle, UK)
ISBN: 9781281319432
Format: Electronic book text
$211.07

Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence,...  Read More >>

Sustainable Urban Planning

Sustainable Urban Planning

Author: Robert Riddell, MD (University of Auckland)
ISBN: 9781280199585
Format: Electronic book text
$232.19

Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context...  Read More >>

Tropical Urban Heat Islands: Climate, Buildings and Greenery. Spon Research.

Tropical Urban Heat Islands: Climate, Buildings and...

Author: Nyuk Hien Wong (Department of Building, National University of Singapore) ,  Yu Chen (Department of Building, National University of Singapore National University of Singapore, Singapore)
ISBN: 9781281753779
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate...  Read More >>

Urban Poverty and the Underclass

Urban Poverty and the Underclass

Author: Enzo Mingione (University of Padova)
ISBN: 9781281840691
Format: Electronic book text
$240.11

Over the last two decades poverty has moved centrestage as an issue within the social sciences. This volume, edited...  Read More >>

Space, Difference, Everyday Life

Space, Difference, Everyday Life

Author: Kanishka Goonewardena ,  Stefan Kipfer (York University, Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781281197634
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered...  Read More >>

Contemporary Urban Japan

Contemporary Urban Japan

Author: Professor John Clammer (Sophia University United Nations University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781281840622
Format: Electronic book text
$284.96

This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan...  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: 9781281456748
Format: Electronic book text
$464.64

As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential...  Read More >>

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