Urban communities books

18365 books were found.

Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia

Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical...

Author: Michael R T Dumper ,  Bruce E Stanley
ISBN: 9786610712472
Format: Electronic book text
$633.60

This is a comprehensive reference work on major ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa from...  Read More >>

740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment...

Author: Michael Gross
ISBN: 9780767917445
Format: Paperback
$44.75

At its core, this book is a social history of the American rich, and how the locus of power and influence has shifted...  Read More >>

Post-Industrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth

Post-Industrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth...

Author: Shahid Yusuf ,  Kaoru Nabeshima
ISBN: 9780804756730
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Throughout East Asia, the growth process and its sources are changing in a number of important respects, especially...  Read More >>

Postindustrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth

Postindustrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth...

Author: Shahid Yusuf ,  Kaoru Nabeshima
ISBN: 9780804756723
Format: Hardback
$126.95

Draws on a wide literature and interviews of firms and suggests how policies and institutions can induce and furnish...  Read More >>

Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment

Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment

Author: Matthew E. Kahn
ISBN: 9780815748151
Format: Paperback
$42.99

What is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco or Vancouver is more “green” than Houston or Beijing?Written...  Read More >>

Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005

Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and...

Author: Duanfang Lu
ISBN: 9780415354509
Format: Hardback
$368.00

 Read More >>

Common Sense Inside African Tradition

Common Sense Inside African Tradition

Author: Joseph A Bailey
ISBN: 9781595940988
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The best form of common sense for a people can be found inside African Tradition while the best form for an individual...  Read More >>

Decolonizing the Colonial City: Urbanization and Stratification in Kingston, Jamaica

Decolonizing the Colonial City: Urbanization and Stratification...

Author: Colin Clarke (Emeritus Professor of Geography, Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199269815
Format: Hardback
$452.00

Colin Clarke investigates the role of class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social stratification and...  Read More >>

When America Became Suburban

When America Became Suburban

Author: Robert A. Beauregard
ISBN: 9780816648856
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Provides an understanding of the consequences of the decline of cities and the rise of the American suburb.  Read More >>

Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America

Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support...

Author: Ram Cnaan
ISBN: 9786613211545
Format: Electronic book text
$369.34

<p>For many living in U.S. cities, social services come not from the government but from local churches. Based on...  Read More >>

Stadte Der Herrschaft: Kleinstadtgenese Im Habsburgischen Herrschaftsraum Des 13. Und 14. Jahrhunderts

Stadte Der Herrschaft: Kleinstadtgenese Im Habsburgischen...

Author: Martina Stercken
ISBN: 9783412130053
Format: Hardback
$108.24

Die Ausbildung burgerlicher Kommunen und neuer Herrschaftsformen gelten als gegenlaufige Prozesse der gesellschaftlichen...  Read More >>

Managing Cities in Developing Countries: The Theory and Practice of Urban Management

Managing Cities in Developing Countries: The Theory...

Author: Meine Pieter van Dijk
ISBN: 9781845428808
Format: Hardback
$247.00

Urban management is a relatively new topic, which has gained increasing importance due to a rise in urbanization...  Read More >>

Hyper City: The Symbols Side of Urbanism

Hyper City: The Symbols Side of Urbanism

Author: Peter J.M. Nas ,  Annemarie Samuels
ISBN: 9780710312792
Format: Hardback
$88.99

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Atlas of Shrinking Cities

Atlas of Shrinking Cities

Author: Philipp Oswalt ,  Tim Reiniets
ISBN: 9783775717144
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Documents the global phenomenon of the shrinking city, including thirty world maps, fifty diagrams, thirty portraits...  Read More >>

China's Walled Cities

China's Walled Cities

Author: Ronald G. Knapp
ISBN: 9780195906059
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Beneath the superficial disorder of a Chinese city whispers an orderliness linking heaven, earth, and humankind....  Read More >>

Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State

Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State...

Author: Mogens Herman Hansen
ISBN: 9786611160555
Format: Electronic book text
$107.79

Provides an introduction to the polis or ancient Greek city-state. This book addresses such topics as the emergence...  Read More >>

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America...

Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9780307345899
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Argues that homelessness is caused by the lack of low-cost housing, describes the experiences of the homeless, and...  Read More >>

The Suburb Reader

The Suburb Reader

Author: Becky M Nicolaides ,  Andrew Wiese
ISBN: 9786610809370
Format: Electronic book text
$242.67

According to the 2000 Census, fifty percent of Americans live in suburbs, signifying a dramatic reversal of patterns...  Read More >>

The Next Los Angeles, Updated with a New Preface: The Struggle for a Livable City

The Next Los Angeles, Updated with a New Preface: The...

Author: Robert Gottlieb ,  Regina Freer
ISBN: 9780520250093
Format: Paperback
$57.95

 Read More >>

Birth and Death of a City

Birth and Death of a City

Author: Elizabeth Raum
ISBN: 9781410926265
Format: Paperback
$21.09

 Read More >>

Green City: People, Nature, & Urban Life

Green City: People, Nature, & Urban Life

Author: Mary Soderstrom
ISBN: 9781550652079
Format: Paperback
$47.44

Examining eleven cities worldwide and concentrating on the intersection of nature and society in the urban environment,...  Read More >>

The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages

The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages

Author: Cecilia Tacoli
ISBN: 9781844073160
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Rural-urban linkages have become an important focus for research and policy relating to local and national economic...  Read More >>

The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages

The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages

Author: Cecilia Tacoli
ISBN: 9781844073153
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Rural-urban linkages have become an important focus for research and policy relating to local and national economic...  Read More >>

Inclusion in Urban Educational Environments: Addressing Issues of Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice

Inclusion in Urban Educational Environments: Addressing...

Author: Denise E. Armstrong ,  Brenda J. McMahon
ISBN: 9781593114930
Format: Paperback
$121.41

Concerned about the imperative to address the endemic educational and societal challenges that pervade the lives...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List