Urban communities books

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

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

Author: S Pile
ISBN: 9786611251208
Format: Electronic book text
$660.00

What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic...  Read More >>

Cities of Europe: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion. Studies in Urban and Social Change.

Cities of Europe: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement...

Author: Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino)
ISBN: 9786611312015
Format: Electronic book text
$210.94

Cities of Europe examines the effects of changing contexts on the spatial and political arrangements of western...  Read More >>

Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Globalization

Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe:...

Author: F E Ian Hamilton ,  Dimitrovska Andrews Kaliopa
ISBN: 9786610915705
Format: Electronic book text
$270.49

This volume is one in a series initiated by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies on the inter-relationship...  Read More >>

Key Concepts in Urban Studies

Key Concepts in Urban Studies

Author: MR Leslie Budd ,  Prof Mark Gottdiener
ISBN: 9786611361846
Format: Electronic book text
$464.38

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Living in Cities

Living in Cities

Author: Neil Morris
ISBN: 9781583404836
Format: Undefined
$75.24

Since the dawn of civilization, human-kind has managed to overcome natural obstacles and live in a wide array of...  Read More >>

Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture

Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental...

Author: Luc J A Mougeot
ISBN: 9786610717897
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

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Evaluating Sustainable Development: In the Built Environment

Evaluating Sustainable Development: In the Built Environment...

Author: Peter Brandon ,  Patrizia Lombardi
ISBN: 9786610742936
Format: Electronic book text
$432.91

Sustainable development has been characterised by an emphasis on environmental issues and an ad hoc approach to...  Read More >>

The Urban Response to Internationalization

The Urban Response to Internationalization

Author: P K Fry Kresl ,  Dr Peter Karl Kresl
ISBN: 9786613217325
Format: Electronic book text
$686.40

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Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities 1850 2000

Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns...

Author: Stephen V Ward
ISBN: 9781280226342
Format: Electronic book text
$528.00

This highly illustrated book descibes how places have been 'sold' or promoted to make themselves attractive locations...  Read More >>

Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History

Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History

Author: Lee Shai Weissbach
ISBN: 9781281741073
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

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

East Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City

East Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City

Author: Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Peter G Rowe (Harvard Graduate School of Design)
ISBN: 9781282264274
Format: Electronic book text
$81.84

Peter G. Rowe's East Asia Modern is a timely comparative analysis of urban growth in this rapidly evolving part...  Read More >>

Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, Volume 2. James A. Johnson Metro Series.

Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from...

Author: Senior Fellow and Research Director Alan Berube (Brookings Institution) ,  Bruce J Katz
ISBN: 9781280813153
Format: Undefined
$71.15

This second volume in the Redefining Urban and Suburban America series provides a closer look at the unprecedented...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Professor Janet Rothenberg Pack (The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781280813146
Format: Undefined
$65.87

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

Collision Course: NATO, Russia, and Kosovo

Collision Course: NATO, Russia, and Kosovo

Author: John Norris
ISBN: 9781282408104
Format: Electronic book text
$150.48

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Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930

Author: Professor Robert M Fogelson, Professor
ISBN: 9781281740595
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

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

State and Life Chances in Urban China, The: Redistribution and Stratification, 1949-1994

State and Life Chances in Urban China, The: Redistribution...

Author: Xueguang Zhou (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781280415654
Format: Undefined
$330.00

This book presents a systematic study of social stratification processes in urban China, from 1949 to 1994. Based...  Read More >>

Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Globalization

Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe:...

Author: F E Ian Hamilton ,  Nataa Pichler-Milanovic
ISBN: 9781280915703
Format: Undefined
$135.25

This volume is one in a series initiated by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies on the inter-relationship...  Read More >>

Gaza: Life in a Cage

Gaza: Life in a Cage

Author: Herve Equer ,  Jerome Kempf
ISBN: 9781281395504
Format: Undefined
$100.19

Curiosity, a nose for a good story, and the pleasure of traveling together led two journalists to make four fifteen-day...  Read More >>

Tale of a City

Tale of a City

Author:
ISBN: 9781282810693
Format: Electronic book text
$65.97

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Encyclopedia of the City

Encyclopedia of the City

Author: W Caves Roger
ISBN: 9781280267529
Format: Electronic book text
$778.80

A first-class work of reference that will be both an essential resource for independent study as well as a useful...  Read More >>

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora.

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective. Rochester...

Author: Toyin Falola (University of Texas at Austin) ,  Steven Salm
ISBN: 9781281770707
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving...  Read More >>

China's Urban Transition

China's Urban Transition

Author: John Friedmann (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781299911871
Format: Undefined
$150.48

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Egyptian Peasant

Egyptian Peasant

Author: Father Henry Habib Ayrout
ISBN: 9781322297552
Format: Electronic book text
$102.96

A new edition of the classic study of Egypt's fellaheen farmers  Read More >>

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