Urban communities books

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Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver

Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver...

Author: Graham Russell Gao Hodges (Colgate University)
ISBN: 9780801885549
Format: Hardback
$71.28

Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating new perspective on New York's...  Read More >>

An Italian Lady Goes to the Bronx

An Italian Lady Goes to the Bronx

Author: Marianella Sclavi ,  Henry Martin
ISBN: 9788895145105
Format: Hardback
$105.34

An extraordinary ethnographic study that sets its sights on the de-bronxification of daily life. After her children...  Read More >>

Ethnicity and Urban Life in China: A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese

Ethnicity and Urban Life in China: A Comparative Study...

Author: Xiaowei Zang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780415421201
Format: Hardback
$238.00

Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between 2001 and 2004, this much-needed...  Read More >>

Migration and socioeconomic change: A 2001 Census analysis of Britain's larger cities

Migration and socioeconomic change: A 2001 Census analysis...

Author: Tony Champion (Department of Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne) ,  Mike Coombes (Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
ISBN: 9781847420039
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Migration and socioeconomic change brings new evidence to debates on urban regeneration in Britain: are we seeing...  Read More >>

Race, Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital

Race, Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital...

Author: Professor James Jennings (Tufts University, USA)
ISBN: 9786611363161
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

This anthology tackles three key issues: how social capital is discussed within the contexts of racial inequality,...  Read More >>

Cities, Nationalism and Democratization

Cities, Nationalism and Democratization

Author: Scott A. Bollens (University of California, Irvine, USA)
ISBN: 9780415419475
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Filling a gap in the peacemaking and conflict literatures market and including a set of over 100 interviews with...  Read More >>

The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design

The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through...

Author: Ronald Lee Fleming
ISBN: 9781858943718
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Makes a radical case for accessible public art that fosters a powerful civic experience of connection to place....  Read More >>

South Street

South Street

Author: Barbara Mensch ,  Philip Lopate
ISBN: 9780231139328
Format: Hardback
$65.95

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Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change

Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the...

Author: Marion Orr
ISBN: 9780700615131
Format: Hardback
$105.60

As an avenue for progressive politics in a nation still skeptical of change, community organizing faces significant...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with Less Traffic

Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with...

Author: David Engwicht
ISBN: 9781897408025
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns provides groundbreaking answers to the problems that cars and traffic inflict upon...  Read More >>

All Roads Lead to the American City

All Roads Lead to the American City

Author: Peter Swirski
ISBN: 9789622098633
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its ties with the cities and roads. Taking...  Read More >>

House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City

House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City

Author: Michael Downs
ISBN: 9780803260122
Format: Paperback
$52.67

It was a crumbling city, like so many others. But in Hartford five gifted young men, who met as high school athletes,...  Read More >>

Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil

Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast...

Author: Mary Lorena Kenny
ISBN: 9781551117928
Format: Paperback
$60.59

""Kenny treats the often taboo topic of child labor with clear-eyed perception and a bracing lack of sentimentality.""...  Read More >>

All Roads Lead to the American City

All Roads Lead to the American City

Author: Peter Swirski
ISBN: 9789622098626
Format: Hardback
$157.08

Provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its ties with the cities and roads. Taking...  Read More >>

True Urbanism: Living In and Near the Center

True Urbanism: Living In and Near the Center

Author: Mark Hinshaw
ISBN: 9781932364279
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Mark Hinshaw has a proposition for Americans: Come out of the bunker, throw open the gates, and meet the neighborhood....  Read More >>

Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access

Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access

Author: Harvey J. Miller
ISBN: 9781402054266
Format: Hardback
$498.96

Discusses issues surrounding the impact of instant access on cities, daily lives, transportation, privacy, social...  Read More >>

The Inner City: A Handbook for Renewal

The Inner City: A Handbook for Renewal

Author: Roger L. Kemp
ISBN: 9780786431533
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Provides a comprehensive overview of the rebuilding of America's urban areas. Beginning with an introduction into...  Read More >>

Urban Society

Urban Society

Author: Fred Siegel ,  Harry Siegel
ISBN: 9780073397436
Format: Paperback
$117.48

Provides access to articles selected from the best of the public press. This work's organizational features include:...  Read More >>

Ethnicity and Urban Life in China: A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese

Ethnicity and Urban Life in China: A Comparative Study...

Author: Xiaowei Zang (University of Sheffield, UK City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Sheffield, UK University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781280803321
Format: Electronic book text
$532.22

This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China....  Read More >>

Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: Critical Issues in the New Millennium

Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market:...

Author: George Wilson
ISBN: 9781412955027
Format: Hardback
$124.08

What patterns of racial and ethnic stratification are emerging in the American labor market as representation of...  Read More >>

Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris

Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris

Author: Karen Newman
ISBN: 9780691127545
Format: Hardback
$118.80

States that speculation and capital, commodity, crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically...  Read More >>

Community Renewal through Municipal Investment: A Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials

Community Renewal through Municipal Investment: A Handbook...

Author: Roger L. Kemp
ISBN: 9780786431564
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Includes case studies covering various topics such as streetscapes, public plazas, museums, libraries, cultural...  Read More >>

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