Urban communities books

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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism...

Author: Kevin M. Kruse
ISBN: 9780691092607
Format: Hardback
$132.00

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as The City Too Busy to Hate, a rare place in the South...  Read More >>

Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005

Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements...

Author: Un-Habitat
ISBN: 9781844072118
Format: Paperback
$96.00

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The Urban Village: A Charter for Democracy and Local Self-Sustainable Development

The Urban Village: A Charter for Democracy and Local...

Author: Alberto Magnaghi ,  David Kerr
ISBN: 9781842775813
Format: Paperback
$59.00

A practical manifesto for how cities can respond to the pressures of globalization  Read More >>

Urban Stormwater Management in Developing Countries

Urban Stormwater Management in Developing Countries...

Author: J. Parkinson ,  O. Mark
ISBN: 9781843390572
Format: Paperback
$137.14

Disseminates contemporary knowledge and practical experiences concerning problems and solutions related to urban...  Read More >>

City Economics

City Economics

Author: Brendan O'Flaherty
ISBN: 9780674019188
Format: Hardback
$178.95

This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is for students of urban and regional policy and of undergraduate...  Read More >>

Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005

Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements...

Author: Un-Habitat
ISBN: 9781844072101
Format: Hardback
$288.00

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Sprawl: A Compact History

Sprawl: A Compact History

Author: Robert Bruegmann
ISBN: 9780226076904
Format: Hardback
$72.60

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Road, River, and Ol' Boy Politics: A Texas County's Path from Farm to Supersuburb

Road, River, and Ol' Boy Politics: A Texas County's...

Author: Linda Scarbrough
ISBN: 9780876112021
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"A cautionary tale about the difficulties of anticipating ripple effects from large-scale public works """"solutions""""...  Read More >>

Cruising: Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures

Cruising: Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures...

Author: Helge Mooshammer
ISBN: 9783205772941
Format: Paperback
$95.71

Cruising, ein Synonym fër das Herumstreifen auf der Suche nach sexuellen Abenteuern, verschiebt wie beiläufig die...  Read More >>

Work/Life City Limits: Comparative Household Perspectives

Work/Life City Limits: Comparative Household Perspectives...

Author: H. Jarvis
ISBN: 9781403914965
Format: Hardback
$168.00

This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together. The...  Read More >>

From Pilgrimage to Package Tour: Travel and Tourism in the Third World

From Pilgrimage to Package Tour: Travel and Tourism...

Author: David L. Gladstone (University of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
ISBN: 9780415950633
Format: Paperback
$48.00

From Pilgrimage to Package Tour is a fresh and entirely original account that stands tourism studies on its head...  Read More >>

Sprawl: A Compact History

Sprawl: A Compact History

Author: Robert Bruegmann
ISBN: 9786611959272
Format: Electronic book text
$89.76

In this incisive history of the expanded city, Robert Bruegmann argues that urban sprawl is a positive and logical...  Read More >>

Suburban Sahibs

Suburban Sahibs

Author: S. Mitra Kalita
ISBN: 9780813536651
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Focuses on three waves of immigration in the post-civil rights era through the stories of three families: the Kotharis,...  Read More >>

Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World

Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World

Author: Peggy F. Barlett (Emory University) ,  Roderick Frazier Nash
ISBN: 9780262025867
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Cross-disciplinary studies find that reconnections to place and to the natural world, which are emerging through...  Read More >>

Cities

Cities

Author: John Reader
ISBN: 9780099284260
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe

Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental...

Author: Bill Luckin ,  Dieter Schott
ISBN: 9780754650812
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World

Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World

Author: Peggy F. Barlett (Emory University) ,  Roderick Frazier Nash
ISBN: 9780262524438
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Cross-disciplinary studies find that reconnections to place and to the natural world, which are emerging through...  Read More >>

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality...

Author: Thomas J. Sugrue
ISBN: 9780691121864
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Once America's arsenal of democracy, Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. This title explains...  Read More >>

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930

Author: Professor Robert M Fogelson
ISBN: 9786611740597
Format: Electronic book text
$158.40

The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns and leaf-shaded...  Read More >>

People Make Places: Growing the Public Life of Cities

People Make Places: Growing the Public Life of Cities...

Author: Melissa Mean ,  Charlie Tims
ISBN: 9781841801490
Format: Paperback
$25.88

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Aus Aller Herren Lander?: Wien ALS Studienort Und Internationale Bildungsmetropole

Aus Aller Herren Lander?: Wien ALS Studienort Und Internationale...

Author: Josef Kohlbacher ,  Ursula Reeger
ISBN: 9783700135678
Format: Paperback
$60.72

Laut Hochschulstatistik studierten im Wintersemester 2003/04 19.769 nicht aus Osterreich stammende Studenten und...  Read More >>

The Digital City: The American Metropolis and Information Technology

The Digital City: The American Metropolis and Information...

Author: M. Laguerre
ISBN: 9781403997104
Format: Hardback
$146.00

Evolving out of a research project on information technology and society, the book explores the digitization of...  Read More >>

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts...

Author: M D Mindy Thompson Fullilove
ISBN: 9780345454232
Format: Paperback
$39.47

They called it progress. But for the people whose homes and districts were bulldozed, the urban renewal projects...  Read More >>

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