Urban communities books

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Living in a City

Living in a City

Author: Lisa Trumbauer ,  Gail Saunders-Smith, PH.D.
ISBN: 9780736836302
Format: Hardback
$54.52

Simple text and photographs describe life in a city and highlights the different neighborhoods, buildings, transportation...  Read More >>

Belong: A TV journalist's search for urban culture: From Beirut to Bamako, from Havana to Ho Chi Minh City

Belong: A TV journalist's search for urban culture:...

Author: Jennifer Morton ,  Moses Znaimer
ISBN: 9781894663786
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Jennifer Morton armed with a knap-sack full of cameras, chased the global art, music and culture scene. As producer...  Read More >>

Kreuzungen: Ethische Probleme der modernen Stadt

Kreuzungen: Ethische Probleme der modernen Stadt

Author: Gerhard Droesser ,  Stephan Schirm
ISBN: 9783631532607
Format: Paperback
$180.35

Das Städtische konstituiert sich als multiperspektivisches Gebilde, das reflexiv nie eindeutig zu objektivieren,...  Read More >>

Cities and the Creative Class

Cities and the Creative Class

Author: Richard Florida (George Mason University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415948869
Format: Hardback
$326.00

In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the CreativeClass, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed...  Read More >>

The Market and the City: Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe

The Market and the City: Square, Street and Architecture...

Author: Donatella Calabi ,  Marlene Klein
ISBN: 9780754608936
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This work investigates the effect of merchants and traders on the urban history of market places in early modern...  Read More >>

After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism

After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the...

Author:
ISBN: 9781280168819
Format: Electronic book text
$582.91

The majority of the world's population now lives in cities. The social, cultural and economic problems and opportunities...  Read More >>

Byliv Og Havnefront

Byliv Og Havnefront

Author: Nicolai Carlberg ,  Soren Christiansen
ISBN: 9788763501903
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Unsustainable Transport: City Transport in the New Century

Unsustainable Transport: City Transport in the New Century...

Author: David Banister
ISBN: 9781280156380
Format: Electronic book text
$633.60

This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global...  Read More >>

Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City

Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City...

Author: Mark Crinson (Manchester University, UK)
ISBN: 9781280217289
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

Nine previously unpublished essays form an interdisciplinary assessment of urban memory in the modern city, analysing...  Read More >>

Historic Cities of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Historic Cities of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia...

Author: David F Marley
ISBN: 9781280711152
Format: Electronic book text
$538.56

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Reading the Everyday

Reading the Everyday

Author: Joe John Moran
ISBN: 9781280247460
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

In an ever-growing field of study, this is a major contribution to one of the key areas in cultural studies and...  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: 9781281106599
Format: Electronic book text
$137.28

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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 (Professor of History, University of Northampton)
ISBN: 9781280734694
Format: Electronic book text
$303.47

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

Globalizing Taipei: The Political Economy of Spatial Development

Globalizing Taipei: The Political Economy of Spatial...

Author: Reginald Kwok
ISBN: 9781280435706
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. Globalizing Taipei looks at this Asian...  Read More >>

Politics of Place

Politics of Place

Author: Gregory J Crowley
ISBN: 9781322025285
Format: Electronic book text
$63.23

In urban America, large-scale redevelopment is a frequent news item. Many proposals for such redevelopment are challenged...  Read More >>

City Baby and Star: Addiction, Transcendence, and the Tenderloin

City Baby and Star: Addiction, Transcendence, and the...

Author: Don Stannard-Friel
ISBN: 9780761830696
Format: Paperback
$71.95

This book is an exploration of the sociological, biological, and psychological forces that create pathways into...  Read More >>

Who's Who in an Urban Community

Who's Who in an Urban Community

Author: Jake Miller
ISBN: 9781404250352
Format: Paperback
$130.68

This engaging, age-appropriate set is designed to meet the early childhood social studies curriculum, where students...  Read More >>

Paths of Urban Transformation

Paths of Urban Transformation

Author: Frank Eckardt ,  Dieter Hassenpflug
ISBN: 9780820498201
Format: Paperback
$152.99

More than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the cities and regions of the former socialist countries are...  Read More >>

The City and the Region

The City and the Region

Author: Frank Eckardt ,  Dieter Hassenpflug
ISBN: 9780820477893
Format: Paperback
$134.51

The issue of regionalization has become a crucial point in the process of European Unification. The region has attracted...  Read More >>

Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment

Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle...

Author: Larry R. Ford
ISBN: 9780812218985
Format: Paperback
$59.40

A geographical examination of metropolitan San Diego and its regional environs.  Read More >>

Growing Up in the City: A Boy's Tale

Growing Up in the City: A Boy's Tale

Author: John Keegan
ISBN: 9780595335350
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Discover the days of the Great Depression, World War II and the post-war years through the eyes and ears of a young...  Read More >>

Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment

Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle...

Author: Larry R. Ford
ISBN: 9780812238389
Format: Hardback
$158.27

A geographical examination of metropolitan San Diego and its regional environs.  Read More >>

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the...

Author: Robert Lewis
ISBN: 9781592130863
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Urban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled...  Read More >>

Cities and the Creative Class

Cities and the Creative Class

Author: Richard Florida (George Mason University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415948876
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In this book, the author outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - people...  Read More >>

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the...

Author: Robert Lewis
ISBN: 9781592130856
Format: Hardback
$191.40

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