Urban communities books

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Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America

Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban...

Author: Bryant Simon (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9780195167535
Format: Hardback
$118.95

Boardwalk of Dreams traces the transformations of public space in Atlantic City during the 20th century, grappling...  Read More >>

Deciphering the City

Deciphering the City

Author: William A. Schwab
ISBN: 9780131134959
Format: Paperback
$336.00

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City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer

City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer...

Author: Amy Ellen Schwartz
ISBN: 9781843763819
Format: Hardback
$313.50

An illustrious group of economists contribute to this volume honoring Dick Netzer, the public finance economist...  Read More >>

Up Against The Sprawl: Public Policy And The Making Of Southern California

Up Against The Sprawl: Public Policy And The Making...

Author: Jennifer Wolch ,  Manuel Pastor, Jr.
ISBN: 9780816642984
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Contributors: Carolyn B. Aldana, California State U, San Bernadino; Carol S. Armstrong; Michael Dear, U of Southern...  Read More >>

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2004

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2004

Author: William G. Gale ,  Janet Rothenberg Pack
ISBN: 9780815712787
Format: Paperback
$95.04

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Up Against The Sprawl: Public Policy And The Making Of Southern California

Up Against The Sprawl: Public Policy And The Making...

Author: Jennifer Wolch ,  Manuel Pastor, Jr.
ISBN: 9780816642977
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Contributors: Carolyn B. Aldana, California State U, San Bernadino; Carol S. Armstrong; Michael Dear, U of Southern...  Read More >>

Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe

Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political...

Author: H. V. Savitch ,  Paul Kantor
ISBN: 9780691120140
Format: Paperback
$82.99

Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international...  Read More >>

The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present

The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives...

Author: J. Trotter ,  E. Lewis
ISBN: 9780312294656
Format: Paperback
$48.00

In order to illuminate the transformations in African American urban life, this book brings together urban history;...  Read More >>

The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present

The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives...

Author: J. Trotter ,  E. Lewis
ISBN: 9780312294649
Format: Hardback
$104.00

In order to illuminate the transformations in African American urban life, this book brings together urban history;...  Read More >>

Who's Afraid of Demergers?: The Straight Goods on Quebec's Megacities

Who's Afraid of Demergers?: The Straight Goods on Quebec's...

Author: Henry Aubin
ISBN: 9781550651850
Format: Paperback
$26.27

This provocative guide chronicles the fallout after the demerger vote that realigned Quebec into five megacities...  Read More >>

Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s

Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s

Author: Michael Johns
ISBN: 9780520243309
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The story of the American city in its heyday, this text gives a sense of the lived experience of the day, exploring...  Read More >>

Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas

Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas...

Author: James R. Shortridge
ISBN: 9780700613120
Format: Hardback
$118.80

From Abilene to Wichita and beyond, a constellation of cities glitters across the fertile plains of Kansas. Their...  Read More >>

Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity

Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity...

Author: Anthony King
ISBN: 9780415196208
Format: Paperback
$98.00

This volume draws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around...  Read More >>

Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity

Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity...

Author: Anthony King
ISBN: 9780415196192
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This volume draws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around...  Read More >>

Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope

Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope...

Author: Yasser Elsheshtawy (UAE University, United Arab Emirates) ,  Yasser Elsheshtawy
ISBN: 9780415304009
Format: Hardback
$315.00

How did colonial influences change the urban form of the Arab capitals? The author here poses - and answers - many...  Read More >>

Urban Transformation in China

Urban Transformation in China

Author: Gordon G. Liu ,  Aimin Chen
ISBN: 9780754633129
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The urbanization of China has become an urgent task for the economy and a development priority for the Chinese administration,...  Read More >>

Slipping into the Shadows: Junkies, Prostitutes, Con Artists

Slipping into the Shadows: Junkies, Prostitutes, Con...

Author: Eugene Barron
ISBN: 9780595327645
Format: Paperback
$28.91

In every large city, there are marginal, criminal types who live on the fringes of the society. They are faceless,...  Read More >>

Consuming Cities

Consuming Cities

Author: Malcolm Miles ,  Dr Steven Miles
ISBN: 9786610860432
Format: Electronic book text
$554.40

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Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio

Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital...

Author: Mario Luis Small
ISBN: 9780226762920
Format: Paperback
$54.95

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Intown Living: A Different American Dream

Intown Living: A Different American Dream

Author: Ann Breen ,  Dick Rigby
ISBN: 9780275975913
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This book encourages cities and the private development community to team up and expand central city housing opportunities...  Read More >>

St. Louis Metromorphosis

St. Louis Metromorphosis

Author: E.Terrence Jones ,  Brady Baybeck
ISBN: 9781883982508
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Moving from one century to the next is an appropriate time to reflect upon how past trends frame choices for the...  Read More >>

Havens: Stories of True Community Healing

Havens: Stories of True Community Healing

Author: Leonard Jason ,  Martin Perdoux
ISBN: 9780275983208
Format: Hardback
$110.00

People living together in these healing communities include the elderly, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts,...  Read More >>

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