Urban communities books

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Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth

Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change:...

Author: Pedro Noguera ,  Julio Cammarota (University of Arizona, USA)
ISBN: 9780415952514
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Highlights the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being....  Read More >>

New Zealand: City Life

New Zealand: City Life

Author: Helga Neubauer ,  Wolfgang Vorbeck
ISBN: 9781877339127
Format: Hardback
$131.47

The great majority of New Zealanders live in urban areas -- 2.2 million in greater Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch...  Read More >>

Frameworks for Policy Analysis: Merging Text and Context

Frameworks for Policy Analysis: Merging Text and Context...

Author: Raul Lejano
ISBN: 9780415952750
Format: Hardback
$232.00

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Planet of Slums

Planet of Slums

Author: Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781844670222
Format: Hardback
$63.36

Charts the expected global urbanization explosion over the next thirty years and points out that outside China most...  Read More >>

Frameworks for Policy Analysis: Merging Text and Context

Frameworks for Policy Analysis: Merging Text and Context...

Author: Raul Lejano
ISBN: 9780415952767
Format: Paperback
$64.00

Constitutes both an exploration of distinct, and radically different, models for analysis, and a reference for multiple...  Read More >>

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City

Author: Jan Rath (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9786610848157
Format: Electronic book text
$897.60

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to...  Read More >>

Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy

Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy...

Author: Archon Fung
ISBN: 9780691126081
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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The Moral Economy of Cities: Shaping Good Citizens

The Moral Economy of Cities: Shaping Good Citizens

Author: Evelyn Ruppert
ISBN: 9780802038869
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Using the redevelopment of the Yonge-Dundas intersection in downtown Toronto in the mid-1990s as a case study, Ruppert...  Read More >>

Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000

Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from...

Author: Alan Berube ,  Bruce Katz
ISBN: 9780815708834
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Results from Census 2000 have confirmed that American cities and metropolitan areas lie at the heart of the nation's...  Read More >>

Africa's Legacies of Urbanization: Unfolding Saga of a Continent

Africa's Legacies of Urbanization: Unfolding Saga of...

Author: Stefan Goodwin
ISBN: 9780739107317
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Provides an interdisciplinary look at African cities and the urbanisation process. Beginning with an overview of...  Read More >>

European Memories of the Second World War

European Memories of the Second World War

Author: Helmut Peitsch ,  Charles Burdett
ISBN: 9781845451585
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume represents views by scholars from...  Read More >>

Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities

Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of...

Author: Andrea Gaynor
ISBN: 9781920694487
Format: Paperback
$38.95

Who has grown their own food in Australian suburbs? And why have they grown it? How have they gone about keeping...  Read More >>

A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda

A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda...

Author: Rachel Bratt ,  Michael Stone
ISBN: 9781592134328
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Presents a powerful and compelling analysis of the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing...  Read More >>

Visionary Middle Schools: Signature Practices and the Power of Local Invention

Visionary Middle Schools: Signature Practices and the...

Author: Catherine Cobb Morocco ,  Nancy Brigham
ISBN: 9780807746639
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Looks at inclusive urban schools that work. This book addresses head-on the critical national concern of educating...  Read More >>

America's Top Rated Cities: A Statistical Handbook

America's Top Rated Cities: A Statistical Handbook

Author: Grey House Publishing
ISBN: 9781592371402
Format: Paperback
$514.80

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Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World...

Author: Paul Jenkins ,  YA Ping Wang
ISBN: 9786611158316
Format: Electronic book text
$950.40

Brings together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. This book outlines...  Read More >>

Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England

Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern...

Author: David M. Palliser
ISBN: 9780860789741
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Focuses on towns in England in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor period. Urban topography,...  Read More >>

Building School-Community Partnerships: Collaboration for Student Success

Building School-Community Partnerships: Collaboration...

Author: Mavis G. Sanders ,  Joyce Levy Epstein
ISBN: 9781412917643
Format: Hardback
$155.63

This excellent resource assists educators seeking to establish school-community partnerships to achieve goals for...  Read More >>

Living Cities: An Urban Myth? Government and Sustainability in Australia

Living Cities: An Urban Myth? Government and Sustainability...

Author: Garry Smith ,  Jennifer Scott
ISBN: 9781877058431
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Describes practical methods to address various problems and to help educators, the public, and government practitioners...  Read More >>

Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs

Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs

Author: William Lucy ,  David L. Phillips
ISBN: 9781932364149
Format: Paperback
$137.00

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Teaching Urban Learners: Culturally Responsive Strategies for Developing Academic and Behavioral Competence

Teaching Urban Learners: Culturally Responsive Strategies...

Author: Gwendolyn Cartledge ,  Ya-yu Lo
ISBN: 9780878225545
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This valuable resource (recommended for K-5 classroom teachers, special educators, and counselling staff) is divided...  Read More >>

Intelligent Town: An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855

Intelligent Town: An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855...

Author: Louise Miskell
ISBN: 9780708319055
Format: Hardback
$224.40

A full-length study of Swansea's urban development from the late 18th to the late 19th century. It tells the story...  Read More >>

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