Urban communities books

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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: 9781280702679
Format: Undefined
$514.80

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Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities

Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities

Author: Cheryl Teelucksingh ,  Cheryl Teeluckshingh
ISBN: 9781280465703
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

This title explores the complexity of race and space in a range of urban contexts, and the role that various stakeholders...  Read More >>

Metropolitan Revolution

Metropolitan Revolution

Author: Professor Jon C Teaford (Purdue University)
ISBN: 9781280598210
Format: Electronic book text
$68.61

In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end...  Read More >>

Shanghai and the Edges of Empires

Shanghai and the Edges of Empires

Author: Meng Yue
ISBN: 9781299917460
Format: Undefined
$237.60

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness...  Read More >>

Cities in the Third Wave

Cities in the Third Wave

Author: Leonard I Ruchelman
ISBN: 9781299788510
Format: Electronic book text
$65.97

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Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy

Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy

Author: David H Kaplan
ISBN: 9781306218894
Format: Electronic book text
$95.01

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Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East

Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space...

Author: Associate Professor Diane Singerman (The American University) ,  Paul Amar (University of California Santa Barbara, USA University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
ISBN: 9781306492683
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new...  Read More >>

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles...

Author: Mike Davis (Consultant in Continuing Medical Education)
ISBN: 9781306918442
Format: Electronic book text
$171.47

Winner of the American Social Politics Award and shortlisted for the National Book Award. The book tells a tale...  Read More >>

Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories

Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories...

Author: D. Block
ISBN: 9780230554344
Format: Paperback
$59.00

Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global...  Read More >>

Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis

Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis...

Author: David Bell ,  Mark Jayne (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9786610549696
Format: Electronic book text
$1003.20

Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social,...  Read More >>

The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making

The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language...

Author: Eran Ben-Joseph (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ,  Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy)
ISBN: 9780262524452
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Traces the evolution of urban development codes and standards, examines their effect on city planning and design,...  Read More >>

The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making

The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language...

Author: Eran Ben-Joseph (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ,  Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy)
ISBN: 9780262025881
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Traces the evolution of urban development codes and standards, examines their effect on city planning and design,...  Read More >>

Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change

Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical...

Author: Anique Hommels
ISBN: 9780262083409
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Applying the tools of STS to explore why the ""unbuilding of cities""--the reconfiguration and redesign of existing...  Read More >>

Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003

Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003

Author: Richard Scholar
ISBN: 9786610762262
Format: Electronic book text
$116.53

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The Roman City and Its Periphery: From Rome to Gaul

The Roman City and Its Periphery: From Rome to Gaul...

Author: Penelope Goodman (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9786610648344
Format: Electronic book text
$649.44

The first and only monograph available on the subject, Roman Suburbia offers a full and detailed treatment of...  Read More >>

Cities in the Technology Economy

Cities in the Technology Economy

Author: Darrene L Hackler
ISBN: 9786610912261
Format: Electronic book text
$517.44

Recognizing the pivotal role that local governments play in the high-tech economy--and filled with fresh information...  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: 9786611384159
Format: Electronic book text
$439.56

This book is motivated by our work with students and their families in urban communities, and the urgent imperative...  Read More >>

Power and the City in the Netherlandic World

Power and the City in the Netherlandic World

Author: Wayne Te Brake ,  Wim Klooster (Clark University)
ISBN: 9786611399207
Format: Electronic book text
$823.68

In the absence of a powerful state, how was coercive power established within, over, and by the cities of the Low...  Read More >>

Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back

Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to...

Author: Peter J Marcotullio ,  Gordon McGranahan
ISBN: 9786610819171
Format: Electronic book text
$882.82

'Think globally, act locally' emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not...  Read More >>

Companion to the City, A. Blackwell Companions to Geography.

Companion to the City, A. Blackwell Companions to Geography....

Author: Gary Bridge ,  Sophie Watson
ISBN: 9786611309442
Format: Electronic book text
$1029.34

A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates,...  Read More >>

The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design

The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design...

Author: Alexander Cuthbert
ISBN: 9786611319274
Format: Electronic book text
$585.82

The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. It encourages...  Read More >>

Knowledge Cities: Approaches, Experiences, and Perspectives

Knowledge Cities: Approaches, Experiences, and Perspectives...

Author: Francisco Javier Carrillo
ISBN: 9786610642663
Format: Electronic book text
$364.06

Knowledge Cities are cities that possess an economy driven by high value-added exports created through research,...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Duanfang Lu
ISBN: 9786610620722
Format: Electronic book text
$818.40

This book charts the evolution of Chinese urban built environments. Following the socialist revolution of 1949,...  Read More >>

Urban Crisis: Culture and the Sustainability of Cities

Urban Crisis: Culture and the Sustainability of Cities...

Author: M Nadarajah ,  Tomoko Yamamoto
ISBN: 9786610915750
Format: Electronic book text
$232.74

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