Urban communities books

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Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World

Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a...

Author: Jane Schneider ,  Ida Susser
ISBN: 9781859736838
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Urban World/Global City

Urban World/Global City

Author: David Clark
ISBN: 9780415320986
Format: Paperback
$62.00

Identifying and accounting for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society, this text analyses...  Read More >>

Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class

Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations:...

Author: Chowdhry Geeta (geeta.chowdhry@nau.edu Undeliverable Oct 20. Case 01680048) ,  Sheila Nair (Northern Arizona University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415329361
Format: Paperback
$70.00

This text uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring...  Read More >>

Dancing with Broken Bones: A Portrait of Death and Dying Among Inner-city Poor

Dancing with Broken Bones: A Portrait of Death and Dying...

Author: David Wendell Moller
ISBN: 9780195165265
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This book tells the stories of patients whose stories are typically not told: the urban dying poor. By illustrating...  Read More >>

Found Space: A Therapeutic Journey to Urban Resurrection

Found Space: A Therapeutic Journey to Urban Resurrection...

Author: Mi Tsung Chang
ISBN: 9780741417442
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Urban World/Global City

Urban World/Global City

Author: David Clark
ISBN: 9780415320979
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyzes...  Read More >>

Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See

Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never...

Author: Mike Davis ,  Kelly Mayhew
ISBN: 9781565848320
Format: Hardback
$47.00

This text deconstructs the mythology of San Diego, exposing its true undergirdings of militarism, racism and economic...  Read More >>

The City Cultures Reader

The City Cultures Reader

Author: Iain Borden ,  Tim Hall
ISBN: 9780415302449
Format: Hardback
$322.00

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American Paradox: Young Black Men

American Paradox: Young Black Men

Author: Renford Reese
ISBN: 9780890895689
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Urban Social Theory

Urban Social Theory

Author: Michael Bounds
ISBN: 9780195515459
Format: Paperback
$59.95

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of urban social theory within the history of social thought.  Read More >>

The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future

The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our...

Author: Marco d’Eramo ,  Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781859844984
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Describing the postmodern Babel, where the features and contradictions of American society are writ large and deep,...  Read More >>

Developing locally: An international comparison of local and regional economic development

Developing locally: An international comparison of local...

Author: Andrew Beer ,  Professor Graham Haughton
ISBN: 9781847425812
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

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The City Cultures Reader

The City Cultures Reader

Author: Iain Borden ,  Tim Hall
ISBN: 9780415302456
Format: Paperback
$98.00

From Simmel and Burgess, to Zukin, Fainstein and Soja this title presents classic and contemporary writing on the...  Read More >>

FACING THE SLUM CHALLENGE

FACING THE SLUM CHALLENGE

Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
ISBN: 9781844070374
Format: Book
$96.00

The 'Global Report on Human Settlements' demonstrates that to meet the UN Millennium Goals of significantly improving...  Read More >>

Cities Without Cities: An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt

Cities Without Cities: An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt...

Author: Thomas Sieverts
ISBN: 9780415272605
Format: Paperback
$90.00

This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment,...  Read More >>

Cities Without Cities: An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt

Cities Without Cities: An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt...

Author: Thomas Sieverts
ISBN: 9780415272599
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment,...  Read More >>

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience Encountering the City

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience Encountering the...

Author: Simon Parker (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9781280074516
Format: Electronic book text
$1288.32

For the first time Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to...  Read More >>

Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars

Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London Between...

Author: Jerry White
ISBN: 9780712636254
Format: Paperback
$49.99

From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation...  Read More >>

Schools and area regeneration

Schools and area regeneration

Author: Deanne Crowther ,  Colleen Cummings
ISBN: 9781861345172
Format: Paperback
$37.99

This report explores the ways in which schools serving two economically and socially disadvantaged urban areas have...  Read More >>

Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action

Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community...

Author: Mara S. Sidney
ISBN: 9780700612765
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Why do most neighbourhoods in the United States continue to be racially divided? In this work, author Mara Sidney...  Read More >>

Glasgow Directory: Containing a List of the Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders... 1827

Glasgow Directory: Containing a List of the Merchants,...

Author: Various
ISBN: 9780902664722
Format: Paperback
$58.22

Contents include the Magistrates and town council of Glasgow, banking houses, public offices, fire and insurance...  Read More >>

Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

Author: Elliot Liebow ,  William Julius Wilson
ISBN: 9780742528956
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities

Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities

Author: Alice M. O'Connor ,  Chris Tilly
ISBN: 9780871546517
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Despite today's booming economy, secure work and upward mobility remain out of reach for many central-city residents....  Read More >>

Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues and Processes

Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues and Processes...

Author: J. Barry Cullingworth ,  Roger Caves
ISBN: 9780415247894
Format: Paperback
$184.67

This work present a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning, outlining land...  Read More >>

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