Urban communities books

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Cities and Nature

Cities and Nature

Author: Lisa Benton-Short ,  John Rennie-Short
ISBN: 9786611065683
Format: Electronic book text
$871.20

Illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities....  Read More >>

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing...

Author: Heather Beth Johnson
ISBN: 9786611081935
Format: Electronic book text
$165.42

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth investigates the way that wealth (rather than income) structures educational...  Read More >>

Cultivando Mejores Ciudades: Agricultura Urbana Para El Desarrollo Sostenible

Cultivando Mejores Ciudades: Agricultura Urbana Para...

Author: Luc J A Mougeot
ISBN: 9781280718304
Format: Electronic book text
$39.60

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Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School

Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School...

Author: Professor of Art Rebecca Zurier
ISBN: 9781282356443
Format: Electronic book text
$199.58

Picturing the City takes an innovative look at the group of urban realists known as the Ashcan School, and at the...  Read More >>

La Ciudad Fragmentada

La Ciudad Fragmentada

Author: G J Ponce Herrero
ISBN: 9781282120211
Format: Electronic book text
$171.60

El proceso de urbanizacion de los territorios alejados de la ciudad supone un hecho cultural propio de la sociedad...  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: 9781281384157
Format: Undefined
$219.78

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

Africa's Legacies of Urbanization

Africa's Legacies of Urbanization

Author: Stefan Goodwin
ISBN: 9781282494169
Format: Electronic book text
$131.97

Africa's Legacies of Urbanization is the culmination of several decades of research, travel, and teaching. Goodwin...  Read More >>

Computable General Equilibrium Approaches in Urban and Regional Policy Studies

Computable General Equilibrium Approaches in Urban and...

Author: Masayuki Doi
ISBN: 9781281908940
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) approaches have been used extensively over the past 25 years to analyze government...  Read More >>

Cities and Nature

Cities and Nature

Author: Lisa Benton-Short ,  John Rennie-Short
ISBN: 9781281065681
Format: Electronic book text
$522.72

Illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities....  Read More >>

Tales of Two Cities

Tales of Two Cities

Author: Professor of Political Science and Politics Sylvia Bashevkin (University College, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781282740983
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

In the age of globalization, state restructuring is changing the political landscape. How does reshaping local government...  Read More >>

Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left

Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left

Author: Laura Pulido (University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9781282771871
Format: Electronic book text
$84.35

Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this...  Read More >>

Fit to Be Citizens?

Fit to Be Citizens?

Author: Natalia Molina
ISBN: 9781282772014
Format: Electronic book text
$84.35

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public...  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: 9781299911451
Format: Undefined
$182.16

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Slumming

Slumming

Author: Seth Koven
ISBN: 9781306046091
Format: Electronic book text
$191.40

In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into...  Read More >>

Neoliberal City

Neoliberal City

Author: Jason R Hackworth
ISBN: 9781322505138
Format: Electronic book text
$171.60

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Paris, Capital of Modernity

Paris, Capital of Modernity

Author: David Harvey
ISBN: 9780415952200
Format: Paperback
$64.00

Collecting David Harvey's work on Paris during the second empire, this title offers insights ranging from the birth...  Read More >>

In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism

In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and...

Author: Nik Heyen ,  Maria Kaika
ISBN: 9781280377273
Format: Electronic book text
$709.63

Including international research and contributions, this collection offers an approach to untangling the interconnected...  Read More >>

Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting

Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting

Author: Yong-Sook Lee ,  Brenda S.A. Yeoh
ISBN: 9780415360210
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This book - previously published as a special issue of the journal Urban Studies - focuses on the politics of forgetting...  Read More >>

The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table

The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
ISBN: 9781596053076
Format: Paperback
$38.94

"You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your...  Read More >>

Urbanisation & Health: New Challenges in Health Promotion & Prevention

Urbanisation & Health: New Challenges in Health Promotion...

Author: Gunnar Tellnes
ISBN: 9788274772083
Format: Hardback
$155.76

Urbanisation has a profound impact on people's lives and health status. This book shows key presentations from the...  Read More >>

Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City

Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and...

Author: Barbara Eckstein
ISBN: 9780415947831
Format: Paperback
$59.00

This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans – America’s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the...  Read More >>

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