Urban communities books

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Fractured Cities: Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America

Fractured Cities: Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and...

Author: Doctor Elisabeth Leeds ,  Wil Pansters
ISBN: 9781842777312
Format: Paperback
$52.00

As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable....  Read More >>

The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the Twenty-first Century City

The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the Twenty-first...

Author: Rutherford Platt ,  Carl Anthony
ISBN: 9781558495531
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Explores the prospects for a more humane metropolis through a series of essays and case studies that consider why...  Read More >>

Cities in the Technology Economy

Cities in the Technology Economy

Author: Darrene Hackler
ISBN: 9780765612694
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Cities and Cultures

Cities and Cultures

Author: Malcolm Miles
ISBN: 9786610858118
Format: Electronic book text
$897.60

Features an account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce which questions the...  Read More >>

Cities and Economies

Cities and Economies

Author: Yeong-Hyun Kim ,  John Rennie-Short
ISBN: 9786611101077
Format: Electronic book text
$871.20

Provides an introduction to the relationships between cities and economies in both historical and global contexts....  Read More >>

The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500

The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500

Author: Alexander Cowan ,  Jill Steward
ISBN: 9786611104207
Format: Electronic book text
$659.74

The essays in this volume take an interdisciplinary and wide ranging look at urban history through the five senses...  Read More >>

The Social Impacts of Urban Containment

The Social Impacts of Urban Containment

Author: Arthur C Nelson, PH.D., Faicp PH.D., Faicp PH.D., Faicp PH.D., Faicp PH.D., Faicp PH.D., Faicp PH.D., Faicp PH.D., Faicp PH.D., Faicp ,  Casey J Dawkins
ISBN: 9786611332259
Format: Electronic book text
$659.74

Communications research in aviation is widely regarded by many in the healthcare community as the gold standard...  Read More >>

Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy. Rgs-Ibg Book Series

Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban...

Author: Mustafa Dikec (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9786611069438
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the...  Read More >>

Publics and the City

Publics and the City

Author: Kurt Iveson (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9786610932467
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

Contests over 'public space' have come to assume increasing centrality in deliberations over urban policy in post-industrial...  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: 9786610864393
Format: Electronic book text
$997.92

We are on the verge of what many are calling the second information revolution, based on ubiquitous access to...  Read More >>

Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers

Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers

Author: Eric Sheppard ,  Jamie Peck
ISBN: 9786611123598
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

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

Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place

Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of...

Author: Gabriella Gahlia Modan (Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9786611310578
Format: Electronic book text
$585.82

Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place is the fascinating story of an urban neighborhood undergoing...  Read More >>

Cities of Whiteness. Antipode Book Series.

Cities of Whiteness. Antipode Book Series.

Author: Wendy S Shaw (University of New South Wales)
ISBN: 9786611840723
Format: Electronic book text
$528.00

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The New Bureaucracy, Quality Assurance and Its Critics

The New Bureaucracy, Quality Assurance and Its Critics...

Author: Dr Max Travers
ISBN: 9786611741778
Format: Electronic book text
$535.39

This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places...  Read More >>

Urban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements

Urban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of...

Author: Malcolm Miles (University of Plymouth, UK)
ISBN: 9781281063267
Format: Electronic book text
$512.16

Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions...  Read More >>

Down in New Orleans

Down in New Orleans

Author: Billy Sothern
ISBN: 9781282762282
Format: Electronic book text
$97.55

Post-Katrina New Orleans hasn't been an easy place to live, it hasn't been an easy place to be in love, it hasn't...  Read More >>

Urban Environmentalism: Global Change and the Mediation of Local Conflict

Urban Environmentalism: Global Change and the Mediation...

Author: Peter Brand (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781282320246
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

Looks at how environmental issues have shaped the development of cities, examining the political, social and economic...  Read More >>

Culture Broker

Culture Broker

Author: Margaret Leslie Davis
ISBN: 9781282356191
Format: Electronic book text
$126.59

Franklin Murphy? It's not a name that is widely known; even during his lifetime the public knew little of him. But...  Read More >>

Urban Enigmas: Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of Comparing Cities

Urban Enigmas: Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of...

Author: Johanne Sloan
ISBN: 9781282867529
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

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Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia

Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia

Author: T G McGee ,  Ira M Robinson
ISBN: 9781283131858
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

The first comprehensive work on the subject of ASEAN mega-urban regions.  Read More >>

The New Bureaucracy, Quality Assurance and Its Critics

The New Bureaucracy, Quality Assurance and Its Critics...

Author: Max Travers, Dr (University of Tasmania, Australia)
ISBN: 9781281741776
Format: Electronic book text
$321.24

This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places...  Read More >>

The Nonconformists: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944-1991

The Nonconformists: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism...

Author: Nick Miller (London School of Economics, UK University of Newcastle, UK University of Newcastle, UK University of Newcastle, UK University of Newcastle, UK)
ISBN: 9781281376862
Format: Electronic book text
$142.40

Serbia's national movement of the 1980s and 1990s, Nick Miller suggests, was not the product of an ancient, immutable,...  Read More >>

Canadian Urban Growth Trends

Canadian Urban Growth Trends

Author: Ira M Robinson
ISBN: 9781283226745
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

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