Urban communities books

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Sustainable Development in Hong Kong

Sustainable Development in Hong Kong

Author: Terri Mottershead ,  Terri Mottershead
ISBN: 9781282707146
Format: Electronic book text
$132.00

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State of the World S Cities, The: 2004/2005 Globalization and Urban Culture. United Nations Human Settlements Programme

State of the World S Cities, The: 2004/2005 Globalization...

Author: Habitat Un
ISBN: 9781280475184
Format: Electronic book text
$358.64

Cities are facing enormous challenges, with rapidly growing urban populations, often worsening environmental conditions...  Read More >>

Making of a Nation in the Balkans, The: Historiography of the Bulgarian Revival

Making of a Nation in the Balkans, The: Historiography...

Author: Rumen Daskalov
ISBN: 9781281376787
Format: Electronic book text
$126.59

The nineteenth century was the epoch of nation building for the Bulgarians under Ottoman rule. In this book, comparisons...  Read More >>

Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of Twentieth Century Southeastern Europe

Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of Twentieth...

Author: John Lampe ,  Professor John R Lampe (University of Maryland, College Park)
ISBN: 9781281376640
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred...  Read More >>

Mapping Macedonia: Idea and Identity

Mapping Macedonia: Idea and Identity

Author: Cindy R Jebb
ISBN: 9781282404571
Format: Electronic book text
$256.08

Ever sinces its independence in 1991, Macedonia has made remarkable progress towards building a pluralistic, multi-ethnic...  Read More >>

Sustainable Cities

Sustainable Cities

Author: Graham Haughton (University of Manchester, UK) ,  Colin Hunter
ISBN: 9781282778900
Format: Electronic book text
$585.95

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Anxious City, The: English Urbanism in the Late Twentieth Century

Anxious City, The: English Urbanism in the Late Twentieth...

Author: Richard J Williams (CSIRO, Canberra) ,  Anthony Vidler
ISBN: 9781280062834
Format: Electronic book text
$528.00

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

Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China

Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China

Author: YA Ping Wang (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781280168796
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

Economic reform in China has resulted in a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and urban poverty has emerged...  Read More >>

Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire: Rival Paths to the Modern State. the Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, Volume 28

Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire: Rival Paths to the...

Author: Ariel Salzmann
ISBN: 9781280463990
Format: Electronic book text
$361.68

By rereading Tocqueville's classic, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, through an Ottoman prism this study...  Read More >>

The Urban Experience: A People-Environment Perspective

The Urban Experience: A People-Environment Perspective...

Author: S J Neary ,  M S Symes
ISBN: 9781280067358
Format: Electronic book text
$607.20

This book provides a representative selection of the highest quality papers submitted to the IAPS 13 conference...  Read More >>

Life 2.0

Life 2.0

Author: Rich Karlgaard
ISBN: 9781299103719
Format: Electronic book text
$110.48

A delightful, and surprisingly moving, tale -- Michael Lewis, bestselling author of Moneyball Karlgaard flies...  Read More >>

The Bronx

The Bronx

Author: Professor Evelyn Gonzalez
ISBN: 9781306187916
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

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Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering...

Author: Simon Parker (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9780415245913
Format: Hardback
$580.80

This volume brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual...  Read More >>

Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb

Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic...

Author: Nancy Duncan ,  Nancy Duncan
ISBN: 9780415946872
Format: Hardback
$232.00

"How do landscapes work as class codes? In ""Landscapes of Privilege"", James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics...  Read More >>

Urban Education: A Reference Handbook

Urban Education: A Reference Handbook

Author: Kathy L. Adams ,  Dale E. Adams
ISBN: 9781576073629
Format: Hardback
$80.00

A comprehensive look at urban schools, using history as a lens for coming to grips with present-day social, political,...  Read More >>

Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930

Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930

Author: Qin Shao
ISBN: 9780804746892
Format: Hardback
$113.95

This is a multidimensional study of a simulation of modernity that transformed Nantong, a provincial town, from...  Read More >>

Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb

Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic...

Author: Nancy Duncan ,  Nancy Duncan
ISBN: 9780415946889
Format: Paperback
$64.00

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Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering...

Author: Simon Parker (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9780415245920
Format: Paperback
$163.55

This volume brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual...  Read More >>

The Enterprising City Centre: Manchester's Development Challenge

The Enterprising City Centre: Manchester's Development...

Author: Gwyndaf Williams
ISBN: 9780415252621
Format: Paperback
$106.00

Focuses on urban development processes and the dynamics of changing city centres with the context of the emergence...  Read More >>

The Enterprising City Centre: Manchester's Development Challenge

The Enterprising City Centre: Manchester's Development...

Author: Gwyndaf Williams
ISBN: 9780415252614
Format: Hardback
$308.00

Focuses on urban development processes and the dynamics of changing city centres with the context of the emergence...  Read More >>

Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle over Building Sports Stadiums

Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle over Building...

Author: Kevin J. Delaney ,  Rick Eckstein
ISBN: 9780813533438
Format: Paperback
$71.15

An account of recent battles over publicly financed stadiums in some of America's largest cities. Interviews with...  Read More >>

Indus Ethnobiology: New Perspectives from the Field

Indus Ethnobiology: New Perspectives from the Field...

Author: Steven A. Weber ,  William R. Belcher
ISBN: 9780739106099
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This collection of interdisciplinary essays studies the Indus society of South Asia, one of the earliest urban civilizations....  Read More >>

Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World

Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a...

Author: Jane Schneider ,  Ida Susser
ISBN: 9781859736883
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Superbia!: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods

Superbia!: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods...

Author: Dan Chiras ,  Dave Wann
ISBN: 9780865714908
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The only book that shows how to transform existing suburbs to create environment- and people-friendly neighborhoods......  Read More >>

The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930

The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender,...

Author: Louis M. Kyriakoudes
ISBN: 9780807854846
Format: Paperback
$73.79

In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, thousands of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to...  Read More >>

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