Urban communities books

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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: 9781844073795
Format: Hardback
$359.04

Guided in focus by the UN Millennium Development Goals, this volume considers the range of issues that affect the...  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: 9781844073825
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Examines how cities grow, their economic development, urban poverty, housing and environmental problems. This book...  Read More >>

Essays Sunbelt Cities #23

Essays Sunbelt Cities #23

Author: Fairbanks
ISBN: 9780890963968
Format: Hardback
$55.31

For centuries scholars have scrutinized the cities of the Old World, poking into ruins and libraries for unwritten...  Read More >>

The Woodlands: New Community Development, 1964-1983

The Woodlands: New Community Development, 1964-1983...

Author: George T. Morgan ,  John O. King
ISBN: 9780890963067
Format: Hardback
$86.99

The Mitchell Energy and Development Corporation, once a Fortune 500 company, rapidly expanded its real estate division...  Read More >>

Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past

Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence...

Author: Steven Conn
ISBN: 9780812219432
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of...  Read More >>

Integral Urbanism

Integral Urbanism

Author: Nan Ellin
ISBN: 9780415952286
Format: Paperback
$59.00

A theory of urbanism, this work offers a different model of urban life. This model stands as an antidote to the...  Read More >>

Integral Urbanism

Integral Urbanism

Author: Nan Ellin
ISBN: 9780415952279
Format: Hardback
$200.00

A theory of urbanism, this work offers a different model of urban life. This model stands as an antidote to the...  Read More >>

Political Change in the Metropolis

Political Change in the Metropolis

Author: Ronald Vogel ,  John Harrigan
ISBN: 9780321202284
Format: Paperback
$221.00

This popular text has been thoroughly updated and revised to sharpen the focus on its 'bias and change' theme, include...  Read More >>

Planning on the Edge

Planning on the Edge

Author: Nick Gallent ,  Johan Andersson
ISBN: 9780415402903
Format: Paperback
$98.00

More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises ‘urban fringe’: the countryside around towns that has been...  Read More >>

Extended Handshake or Wrestling Match?: Youth and Urban Culture Celebrating Politics in Kenya

Extended Handshake or Wrestling Match?: Youth and Urban...

Author: Fibian Kavulani Lukalo
ISBN: 9789171065674
Format: Undefined
$42.11

One of the factors affecting the social, political and economic situation in Africa today is the youth. Among today's...  Read More >>

Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent, 4th Edition

Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent, 4th Edition...

Author: Irving Cutler ,  James F Marran
ISBN: 9780809327027
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent provides a comprehensive portrayal of the growth and development of Chicago...  Read More >>

The New Suburban History

The New Suburban History

Author: Kevin M. Kruse ,  Thomas Sugrue
ISBN: 9780226456621
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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

City:a Dictionary

City:a Dictionary

Author: Cupr
ISBN: 9780882850955
Format: Hardback
$79.20

The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene....  Read More >>

Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic Life in Philadelphia

Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic Life...

Author: Richardson Dilworth
ISBN: 9781592133451
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Examines social capital across an array of social contexts and time periods within a single city, Philadelphia....  Read More >>

Cultural Quarters: Principles and Practice

Cultural Quarters: Principles and Practice

Author: Simon Roodhouse
ISBN: 9781841502137
Format: Paperback
$58.95

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Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic Life in Philadelphia

Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic Life...

Author: Richardson Dilworth
ISBN: 9781592133444
Format: Hardback
$238.92

Examines social capital across an array of social contexts and time periods within a single city, Philadelphia....  Read More >>

Managing Urban America

Managing Urban America

Author: David R. Morgan ,  Robert E. England
ISBN: 9781568029306
Format: Paperback
$163.55

Managers today are confronted with new challenges in what has become 'fend for yourself' federalism. City executives...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Nicholas A Phelps (University College London, UK) ,  Nick Parsons
ISBN: 9786610825387
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Post-suburbia is a term that encapsulates a variety of contemporary urban forms, in particular the 'edge city' -...  Read More >>

Cultivando Mejores Ciudades: Agricultura Urbana Para El Desarrollo Sostenible

Cultivando Mejores Ciudades: Agricultura Urbana Para...

Author: Luc J A Mougeot
ISBN: 9781552502280
Format: Paperback
$36.83

This is the Spanish edition of Growing Better Cities. The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years...  Read More >>

Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment

Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment

Author: John Rennie Short
ISBN: 9781403906595
Format: Paperback
$102.96

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Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment

Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment

Author: John Rennie Short
ISBN: 9781403906588
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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Assessing Impact: Handbook of EIA and SEA Follow-up

Assessing Impact: Handbook of EIA and SEA Follow-up...

Author: Jos Arts ,  Angus Morrison-Saunders
ISBN: 9781844073375
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Presents the theory and practice of environmental impact assessment (EIA) and the strategic environmental assessment...  Read More >>

20 Times a Lady

20 Times a Lady

Author: Karyn Bosnak
ISBN: 9780060828356
Format: Paperback
$36.93

"In this smart, hilarious novel, a 29-year-old Manhattanite who's obsessed with her ""number""--she's vowed not...  Read More >>

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