Urban communities books

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Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor: A critical geography of intelligent landscapes

Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor:...

Author: Tim Bunnell (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
ISBN: 9780415408707
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical examination of the country's main urban region.  Read More >>

Housing Policy in the United States: An Introduction

Housing Policy in the United States: An Introduction...

Author: Alex F Schwartz
ISBN: 9786610809424
Format: Electronic book text
$220.60

Housing Policy in the United States is an essential guidebook to and textbook for housing policy, and is written...  Read More >>

Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World

Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the...

Author: Joel S. Kahn
ISBN: 9780824831073
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The narrative of Malay identity devised by Malay nationals, writers and film makers in the late colonial period...  Read More >>

Building Ventilation: The State of the Art

Building Ventilation: The State of the Art

Author: Mat Santamouris ,  Peter Wouters
ISBN: 9781844071302
Format: Hardback
$192.00

Ensuring optimum ventilation performance is a vital part of building design. This work provides the information...  Read More >>

Africa on the Move: African Migration and Urbanisation

Africa on the Move: African Migration and Urbanisation...

Author: Marta Tienda ,  Sally E. Findley
ISBN: 9781868144327
Format: Paperback
$86.99

This thirteen-chapter volume, based on a conference held in South Africa in June 2003, describes and compares patterns...  Read More >>

Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities

Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities

Author: Cheryl Teelucksingh
ISBN: 9780889204997
Format: Paperback
$102.83

Examines the various ways in which Canadian cities continue to be racialized despite objective evidence of racial...  Read More >>

Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-cultural Approaches

Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-cultural...

Author: Glenn R. Storey
ISBN: 9780817352462
Format: Paperback
$125.40

A study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in pre-industrial...  Read More >>

Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future of St. Louis

Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future of...

Author: Richard Rosenfeld
ISBN: 9781883982560
Format: Paperback
$35.00

"Part of the """"St Louis Metromorphosis"""" book series from the Public Policy Research Center. This book reviews...  Read More >>

Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, And The Moral Panic Over The City

Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, And The Moral...

Author: Steve Macek
ISBN: 9780816643615
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Looks at the role of right-wing ideologues and the mass media in demonizing urban America. This book documents the...  Read More >>

Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, And The Moral Panic Over The City

Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, And The Moral...

Author: Steve Macek
ISBN: 9780816643608
Format: Hardback
$131.00

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Cities in a World Economy

Cities in a World Economy

Author: Saskia Sassen
ISBN: 9781412936804
Format: Paperback
$121.31

Presents sociologists with a fresh perspective on the study of urban sociology. In a world economy that is global,...  Read More >>

Belfast: Segregation, Violence and the City

Belfast: Segregation, Violence and the City

Author: Peter Shirlow ,  Brendan Murtagh
ISBN: 9780745324807
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Examines segregation and its impact on social divisions and the peace process  Read More >>

The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America

The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban...

Author: Jon Teaford (Professor of History, Purdue University)
ISBN: 9780231133739
Format: Paperback
$61.95

"Traces the evolution of American metropolitan life. ""Edge cities"" are the centers of production in post-suburban...  Read More >>

Imagining the City: Art of Urban Living

Imagining the City: Art of Urban Living

Author: Christian Emden ,  Catherine Keen
ISBN: 9783039105328
Format: Paperback
$154.73

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The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America

The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban...

Author: Jon Teaford (Professor of History, Purdue University)
ISBN: 9780231133722
Format: Hardback
$198.95

"Traces the evolution of American metropolitan life. ""Edge cities"" are centers of production and consumption in...  Read More >>

Power and the City in the Netherlandic World

Power and the City in the Netherlandic World

Author: te Brake ,  Klooster
ISBN: 9789004151291
Format: Hardback
$422.40

The eleven wide-ranging essays in this volume covering the medieval and early modern periods explore how coercive...  Read More >>

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for...

Author: Lisa Robertson
ISBN: 9781552451779
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Pompoms, blackberries and Value Village: Take a stroll through the thoughts of one of Canada's most intriguing poets...  Read More >>

Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary

Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary

Author: Alice Sparberg Alexiou
ISBN: 9780813537924
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Best known in the United States for her path-breaking efforts in preserving the character of Greenwich Village,...  Read More >>

Livelihoods at the Margins: Surviving The City

Livelihoods at the Margins: Surviving The City

Author: James Staples
ISBN: 9781844721337
Format: Hardback
$435.60

Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners - they are people living on the margins of urban life who are...  Read More >>

Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins

Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins...

Author: Mark M. Amen ,  Kevin Archer
ISBN: 9780742541214
Format: Hardback
$242.88

Drawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, this book argues that...  Read More >>

Soul of a Black Cop

Soul of a Black Cop

Author: Brian Willingham
ISBN: 9780978591205
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Leon Litwack calls Brian Willingham's Soul of a Black Cop A scream from the bottom....  Read More >>

Boulder: Evolution of a City

Boulder: Evolution of a City

Author: Silvia Pettem
ISBN: 9780870818318
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A visual and narrative presentation of the birth and development of Boulder. It includes 322 photographs that capture...  Read More >>

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