Urban communities books

This book examines the development of Vancouver's unique approach to zoning, planning, and urban design from its...  Read More >>

This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social...  Read More >>

Part of our new series with Oxfam, Small Guides to Big Issues.  Read More >>

Going Local explains how social work students and practitioners can develop approaches to neighbourhood work, to...  Read More >>

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This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and...  Read More >>

Dominance, identity and resistance are key themes in this examination of language in global, virtual and local settings....  Read More >>

If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent...  Read More >>

In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured...  Read More >>

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government...  Read More >>

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Lange galt es als ausgemacht, dass im Modernisierungsprozess mit fortschreitendem Wachstum von stadtischen Ballungsraumen...  Read More >>

Nachhaltige Entwicklung ist zweifellos eine gute Idee. In den 1990er Jahren entwickelte sich das Konzept zum allgemeinen...  Read More >>

This blurb examines the evolving relationship between development strategies and urban planning in Latin America,...  Read More >>

Examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking...  Read More >>

Presenting a history of the Bronx, this book describes how the once-infamous New York City borough underwent one...  Read More >>

Examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking...  Read More >>

This report covers developments in 20 less popular and more problematic council estates, based on four waves of...  Read More >>

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

Explores how neoliberalism's market revolution has had a transformative effect on contemporary cities. This book...  Read More >>

"Presents a study of ""puticuli"", the mass burial pits of the late Roman Republic."  Read More >>

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