Urban communities books

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Urban Politics, Crime Rates, and Police Strength

Urban Politics, Crime Rates, and Police Strength

Author: Thomas, D. Stucky
ISBN: 9781593320904
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Stucky argues, using insights from political resource theory, that the local political context (form of government,...  Read More >>

Bottom of the Barrel

Bottom of the Barrel

Author: Freddie King
ISBN: 9781933265292
Format: Paperback
$31.05

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Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands

Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine,...

Author: Ann Forsyth
ISBN: 9780520241664
Format: Paperback
$65.95

"The ""new community"" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the...  Read More >>

Medieval City, The. Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World.

Medieval City, The. Greenwood Guides to Historic Events...

Author: Norman Pounds
ISBN: 9786611106591
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

An introduction to life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become...  Read More >>

Directors of Urban Change in Asia

Directors of Urban Change in Asia

Author: Peter J.M. Nas (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415350891
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Directors of Urban Change examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix of Asian cities....  Read More >>

Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life

Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias...

Author: Steve Pile
ISBN: 9780761970415
Format: Hardback
$467.00

Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel, this book explores the dream-like...  Read More >>

Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality

Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality

Author: Suzanne Keller
ISBN: 9780691123257
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Features a case study of a 'planned unit development' in America, Twin Rivers. This book traces the birth and unfolding...  Read More >>

Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture

Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture...

Author: Sharon Zukin
ISBN: 9780415950435
Format: Paperback
$48.00

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Intown Living: A Different American Dream

Intown Living: A Different American Dream

Author: Ann Breen ,  Dick Rigby
ISBN: 9781597260022
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy

The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy

Author: Richardson Dilworth
ISBN: 9780674015319
Format: Hardback
$248.95

Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this...  Read More >>

Protecting One's Turf

Protecting One's Turf

Author: Judith DeSena
ISBN: 9780761829812
Format: Paperback
$58.95

Protecting One's Turf is a qualitative study that both analyzes informal residential segregation and investigates...  Read More >>

Capsular Civilization: On the City in the Age of Fear

Capsular Civilization: On the City in the Age of Fear...

Author: Lieven De Cauter
ISBN: 9789056624071
Format: Hardback
$85.80

Particularly since September 11, the War on Terrorism and the war in Iraq, it has been almost impossible to dissociate...  Read More >>

Key Concepts in Urban Studies

Key Concepts in Urban Studies

Author: Mark D. Gottdiener ,  Leslie Budd
ISBN: 9780761940982
Format: Paperback
$113.39

The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics...  Read More >>

Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope...

Author: Jonathan Kozol ,  Dick Hill
ISBN: 9781596005952
Format: Audio
$65.87

In this national bestseller, now in paperback, the acclaimed author of Savage Inequalities recounts the lessons...  Read More >>

City: Urbanism and Its End

City: Urbanism and Its End

Author: Professor Douglas W Rae
ISBN: 9786611734466
Format: Electronic book text
$184.80

How did neighbourhood groceries, parish halls, factories and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than...  Read More >>

Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History

Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History

Author: Lee Shai Weissbach
ISBN: 9786611741075
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of Jewish life in America. Exploring the...  Read More >>

Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown

Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown...

Author: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
ISBN: 9780679312284
Format: Paperback
$50.16

For some young men, climbing Everest or sailing solo into polar seas isn’t the biggest risk in the world. Instead...  Read More >>

Towns, Regions and Industries: Urban and Industrial Change in the Midlands, 1700-1840

Towns, Regions and Industries: Urban and Industrial...

Author: Neil Raven ,  Jon Stobart
ISBN: 9786610734696
Format: Electronic book text
$606.94

When he coined the phrase in 1884, Arnold Toynbee saw the industrial revolution as the beginning of the modern age,...  Read More >>

Key Concepts in Urban Studies

Key Concepts in Urban Studies

Author: Mark D. Gottdiener ,  Leslie Budd
ISBN: 9780761940975
Format: Hardback
$240.11

The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics...  Read More >>

Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture 1880–1925

Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture...

Author: Lynne Hapgood ,  Kim Latham
ISBN: 9780719059704
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Who said that the suburbs are boring? The suburban trick is to look ordinary and be extraordinary, as Lynne Hapgood's...  Read More >>

Adressage Et Gestion Des Villages

Adressage Et Gestion Des Villages

Author: Hugues Leroux ,  Lucien Godin
ISBN: 9780821353257
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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