Urban communities books

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Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics

Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics...

Author: Stephen Graham (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781281322791
Format: Electronic book text
$348.32

Cities, War, and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism, and counter-terrorism...  Read More >>

Anxious City, The: British Urbanism in the Late 20th Century

Anxious City, The: British Urbanism in the Late 20th...

Author: Richard J Williams (CSIRO, Canberra)
ISBN: 9781283963794
Format: Electronic book text
$554.40

In the Western world, cities have arguably never been more anxious: practical anxieties about personal safety and...  Read More >>

Packing Them in

Packing Them in

Author: Sylvia Hood Washington
ISBN: 9781299830332
Format: Electronic book text
$92.37

This important new book by Sylvia Washington adds a vital new dimension to our understanding of environmental history...  Read More >>

Alternative Urban Futures

Alternative Urban Futures

Author: Raquel Pinderhughes
ISBN: 9781299781863
Format: Electronic book text
$89.73

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Gold Und Herrschaft

Gold Und Herrschaft

Author: Matthias Hardt
ISBN: 9781306485135
Format: Electronic book text
$240.24

Eine genaue Untersuchung von Gestalt und Funktion fruhmittelalterlicher Konigsschatze stellte bislang ein Desiderat...  Read More >>

The Bulldozer and the Word: Culture at Work in Postcolonial Nairobi

The Bulldozer and the Word: Culture at Work in Postcolonial...

Author: Raoul J Granquvist ,  Raoul Granqvist
ISBN: 9780820465975
Format: Paperback
$116.03

This book examines the operating of cultural work in postcolonial Nairobi from the view that it drives modernity,...  Read More >>

Stadt, Kanzlei Und Kultur Im Bergang Zur Fruhen Neuzeit City Culture and Urban Chanceries in an Era of Change

Stadt, Kanzlei Und Kultur Im Bergang Zur Fruhen Neuzeit...

Author: Rudolf Suntrup ,  Martin Gosman
ISBN: 9780820473390
Format: Paperback
$102.83

In spite of the continuing influence of the medieval tradition, the two centuries between 1400 and 1600 display...  Read More >>

Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the...

Author: Ananya Roy ,  Nezar AlSayyad
ISBN: 9780739107409
Format: Hardback
$162.95

The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the...  Read More >>

The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio

The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the...

Author: Daniel Dohan
ISBN: 9780520227569
Format: Hardback
$171.60

As Mexican-Americans stand poised to become the largest nonwhite minority in the United States, their struggles...  Read More >>

Suburban Form: An International Perspective

Suburban Form: An International Perspective

Author: Brenda Case Scheer ,  Kiril Stanilov
ISBN: 9780415314763
Format: Paperback
$140.00

This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe...  Read More >>

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa...

Author: Abner Cohen ,  Elizabeth Colson
ISBN: 9780415320092
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 60s among the Hausa migrants, this is a landmark work in urban anthropology and...  Read More >>

Suburban Form: An International Perspective

Suburban Form: An International Perspective

Author: Brenda Case Scheer ,  Kiril Stanilov
ISBN: 9780415314756
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This work investigates select case studies of suburban environments from around the globe, demonstrating that the...  Read More >>

Plotting, Squatting, Public Purpose and Politics: Land Market Development, Low Income Housing and Public Intervention in India

Plotting, Squatting, Public Purpose and Politics: Land...

Author: Robert-Jan Baken
ISBN: 9780754635543
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Since independence, India has undergone a phase of rapid urbanization. By examining two rapidly growing cities in...  Read More >>

Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the...

Author: Ananya Roy ,  Nezar AlSayyad
ISBN: 9780739107416
Format: Paperback
$66.95

The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the...  Read More >>

Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City: An Analysis of Diasporic Temporalities

Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York...

Author: M. Laguerre
ISBN: 9781403915511
Format: Hardback
$168.00

This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation...  Read More >>

Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property

Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of...

Author: Nicholas Blomley
ISBN: 9780415933155
Format: Hardback
$232.00

"""Unsettling the City"" is an expansive analysis of how ""property"" plays a key role in what the author terms...  Read More >>

Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property

Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of...

Author: Nicholas Blomley
ISBN: 9780415933162
Format: Paperback
$64.00

"""Unsettling the City"" is an expansive analysis of how ""property"" plays a key role in what the author terms...  Read More >>

Military Geographies

Military Geographies

Author: Rachel Woodward
ISBN: 9786611319434
Format: Electronic book text
$422.14

Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence,...  Read More >>

Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor

Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying...

Author: David Wendell Moller (School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
ISBN: 9786610838097
Format: Electronic book text
$125.24

Dancing with Broken Bones provides a chilling portrait of what it is like to die while living in urban poverty....  Read More >>

Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion. James A. Johnson Metro Series.

Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic...

Author: Anthony Downs
ISBN: 9786610812974
Format: Electronic book text
$152.86

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Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics

Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics...

Author: Stephen Graham
ISBN: 9786611322793
Format: Electronic book text
$580.54

Cities, War, and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism, and counter-terrorism...  Read More >>

I Live in the City

I Live in the City

Author: Gini Holland ,  Susan Nations
ISBN: 9780836840858
Format: Undefined
$15.71

<p>- Everyday life in different geographical areas, from a child's...  Read More >>

City Matters

City Matters

Author:
ISBN: 9781282318250
Format: Undefined
$290.40

This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research...  Read More >>

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