Urban communities books

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements...

Author: Jacob A Riis
ISBN: 9781420925036
Format: Paperback
$29.01

"""How the Other Half Lives"" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums...  Read More >>

African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime, and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam

African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime, and Colonial...

Author: Andrew Burton
ISBN: 9780821416365
Format: Paperback
$71.15

This study examines the social, political, and administrative repercussions of rapid urban growth in Dar es Salaam,...  Read More >>

Work/Life City Limits: Comparative Household Perspectives

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

Author: H. Jarvis
ISBN: 9781349512003
Format: Paperback
$84.99

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

The Digital City: The American Metropolis and Information Technology

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

Author: M. Laguerre
ISBN: 9781349546091
Format: Paperback
$84.99

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

Policing Football: Social Interaction and Negotiated Disorder

Policing Football: Social Interaction and Negotiated...

Author: M. O'Neill
ISBN: 9781349520558
Format: Paperback
$169.00

This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football...  Read More >>

African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime, and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam

African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime, and Colonial...

Author: Andrew Burton
ISBN: 9780821416358
Format: Hardback
$79.07

This study examines the social, political, and administrative repercussions of rapid urban growth in Dar es Salaam,...  Read More >>

THE ATLANTA RIOT: RACE, CLASS, AND VIOLENCE IN A NEW SOUTH CITY

THE ATLANTA RIOT: RACE, CLASS, AND VIOLENCE IN A NEW...

Author: Gregory Mixon
ISBN: 9780813030753
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"Gregory Mixon traces the roots of the Atlanta Riot of 1906, exploring the intricate political, social, and urban...  Read More >>

Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core

Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl...

Author: Fritz W. Wagner ,  Timothy E. Joder
ISBN: 9780765612427
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This practical work demonstrates that controlling urban growth and reviving central city economies are not mutually...  Read More >>

City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City

City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City

Author: Maria Kaika
ISBN: 9780415947169
Format: Paperback
$64.00

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City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City

City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City

Author: Maria Kaika
ISBN: 9780415947152
Format: Hardback
$232.00

Through an historical geography of water in the modern city, the author shows that nature and the modern city are...  Read More >>

Interventions

Interventions

Author: Malcolm Miles (Retired Professor, Independent Art Historian) ,  Tim Hall
ISBN: 9781841501185
Format: Undefined
$253.44

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Cities of Culture: Staging International Festivals and the Urban Agenda, 1851–2000

Cities of Culture: Staging International Festivals and...

Author: John R. Gold ,  John R. Gold
ISBN: 9781840142853
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Forging A More Perfect Union: For a Grand Harmony of Cities, Democracy, Ecology

Forging A More Perfect Union: For a Grand Harmony of...

Author: Kenneth R Schneider
ISBN: 9780595338177
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Cities today are the weakest link of both democracy and modern affluence. Their explosive sprawl wastes land that...  Read More >>

Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space

Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy...

Author: Laurence J.C. Ma ,  Fulong Wu
ISBN: 9780415333856
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students...  Read More >>

Global Cities of the South

Global Cities of the South

Author: Ashley Dawson ,  Brent Hayes Edwards
ISBN: 9780822366270
Format: Paperback
$31.68

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Sunbelt/Frostbelt: Public Policies and Market Forces in Metropolitan Development. James A. Johnson Metro Series.

Sunbelt/Frostbelt: Public Policies and Market Forces...

Author: Janet Rothenberg Pack (The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9786610813148
Format: Electronic book text
$131.74

Janet Rothenberg Pack and her contributors examine the role of market forces and government policies in shaping...  Read More >>

American Communities: The Next Human Advance, A New Class of Freedom

American Communities: The Next Human Advance, A New...

Author: Kenneth R Schneider
ISBN: 9780595338931
Format: Paperback
$92.27

American Communities centers upon a critical missing dimension of modern progress: an organizational equivalent...  Read More >>

Cities of Europe – Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements, and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion

Cities of Europe – Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements,...

Author: Y Kazepov
ISBN: 9781405121323
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD--ROM examining the effects of recent socio--economic transformations...  Read More >>

Streets and Patterns

Streets and Patterns

Author: Stephen Marshall
ISBN: 9780415317504
Format: Paperback
$179.00

Setting out a series of concepts of street structure this text offers a framework for design of street networks....  Read More >>

Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America

Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban...

Author: Eran Ben-Joseph ,  Terry S. Szold
ISBN: 9780415948753
Format: Paperback
$59.00

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America

Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban...

Author: Eran Ben-Joseph ,  Terry S. Szold
ISBN: 9780415948746
Format: Hardback
$205.00

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Cardboard Condo: How the Homeless Survive the Streets

Cardboard Condo: How the Homeless Survive the Streets...

Author: Robert C. Greene
ISBN: 9780595337101
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront

Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront...

Author: Kim Dovey
ISBN: 9780415359238
Format: Paperback
$84.00

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Living in a Small Town

Living in a Small Town

Author: Lisa Trumbauer ,  Gail Saunders-Smith, PH.D.
ISBN: 9780736836333
Format: Hardback
$54.52

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