Urban communities books

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Cities and the Health of the Public

Cities and the Health of the Public

Author: Nicholas Freudenberg ,  Sandro Galea
ISBN: 9780826515124
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Analyzing the impact of city-living on health, this book focuses on conditions in the United States. With 16 chapters...  Read More >>

Cities and the Health of the Public

Cities and the Health of the Public

Author: Nicholas Freudenberg ,  Sandro Galea
ISBN: 9780826515117
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Post-Suburban Europe: Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe's Capital Cities

Post-Suburban Europe: Planning and Politics at the Margins...

Author: Nicholas A. Phelps ,  N. Parsons
ISBN: 9780230002128
Format: Hardback
$146.00

The term 'edge city' describes the rapid growth of urban centres at the edge of established cities. Widely discussed...  Read More >>

Critical Realism and Housing Research

Critical Realism and Housing Research

Author: Julie Lawson
ISBN: 9780415405492
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Presents an argument that a fresh ontological perspective is required to address fundamental issues in housing and...  Read More >>

Postindustrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth

Postindustrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth...

Author: Professor Shahid Yusuf (The World Bank World Bank World Bank) ,  Kaoru Beshima
ISBN: 9781280564512
Format: Electronic book text
$63.33

Post-Industrial East Asian Cities analyzes urban developments and policies responsible for the growth of producer...  Read More >>

Migration and Urban Decay: Asian Experience

Migration and Urban Decay: Asian Experience

Author: Shekbar Mukherji
ISBN: 9788170339861
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Indian and Asian mega cities face crucial urban crisis and decay. Focusing mainly on phenomena, processes, and planning...  Read More >>

Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World

Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World...

Author: Georgia Butina Watson ,  Roger Zetter
ISBN: 9780754643555
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Explores the concept of urban sustainability within the context of urban design in the developing world. This work...  Read More >>

Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader...

Author: William S. Saunders
ISBN: 9780816647576
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Provides a practical consideration of what works, and what does not, in American urban planning. By creating a dialogue...  Read More >>

Identitätskonstruktionen in Deutschland lebender Türken der 2. Generation.

Identitätskonstruktionen in Deutschland lebender Türken...

Author: Gesa Reiff
ISBN: 9783898216821
Format: Paperback
$103.24

Gesa Reiff nähert sich in ihrem Buch der gegenwärtigen Integrationsdebatte über die in Deutschland lebenden Türken...  Read More >>

Got Gangs? Practical Guidance for Parents/Teachers on a Mission for Gang Prevention/Intervention

Got Gangs? Practical Guidance for Parents/Teachers on...

Author: Richard R Ramos
ISBN: 9781598005134
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Parents on a Mission is the best prevention strategy against gangs! Why do kids join gangs? My first-hand experience...  Read More >>

Don't Call It Sprawl: Metropolitcan Structure in the Twenty-First Century

Don't Call It Sprawl: Metropolitcan Structure in the...

Author: William T Bogart
ISBN: 9786610702671
Format: Electronic book text
$454.08

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

Decolonizing the Colonial City: Urbanization and Stratification...

Author: Colin Clarke
ISBN: 9786610905560
Format: Electronic book text
$607.68

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

Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr: Herausforderungen und Chancen

Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr: Herausforderungen und...

Author: Walter Hell ,  Institut F]r Mobilitdtsforschung Ifmo, Institut
ISBN: 9783540342083
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Als Themen werden aufgegriffen: Neue Betreibermodelle im öffentlichen Personennahverkehr - Mobilität in Ballungsräumen...  Read More >>

This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America

This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of...

Author: Anthony Flint (Fellow & Director of Public Affairs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
ISBN: 9780801884191
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Explores the economic, cultural, and political forces that make it difficult for sensible growth to gain a foothold...  Read More >>

Tok, Book 1: Diaspora Dialogues

Tok, Book 1: Diaspora Dialogues

Author: Helen Walsh
ISBN: 9780973411232
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation

Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second...

Author: Philip Kasinitz (City University of New York) ,  MR John H Mollenkopf (New York University USA)
ISBN: 9780871544377
Format: Paperback
$65.87

More than half of New Yorkers under the age of eighteen are the children of immigrants. This second generation shares...  Read More >>

Planning on the Edge

Planning on the Edge

Author: Nick Gallent ,  Johan Andersson
ISBN: 9780415375719
Format: Hardback
$409.20

More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises urban fringe. This book examines the challenges that planning...  Read More >>

Tales of Two Cities/Stadtgeschichten: Hamburg and Chicago

Tales of Two Cities/Stadtgeschichten: Hamburg and Chicago...

Author: Claudia Schnurmann ,  Iris Wigger
ISBN: 9783825892548
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Tales of Two Cities compares both metropolises and soon discovers differences as well as similarities. American...  Read More >>

The State of the World's Cities 2006/7: The Millennium Development Goals and Urban Sustainability

The State of the World's Cities 2006/7: The Millennium...

Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat)
ISBN: 9781844073788
Format: Paperback
$112.20

Highlights UN-HABITAT findings that show how inequality in access to service, housing, land, education, health care...  Read More >>

The New Suburban History

The New Suburban History

Author: Kevin M. Kruse ,  Thomas J. Sugrue
ISBN: 9780226456638
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. This work argues that suburbia must be understood...  Read More >>

More Urban Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

More Urban Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development...

Author: Goran Tannerfeldt ,  Per Ljung
ISBN: 9781844073818
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Urbanization and economic development go hand-in-hand and the productivity of the urban economy can and should benefit...  Read More >>

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