Urban communities books

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Poverty and Vulnerability in Dhaka Slums: The Urban Livelihoods Study

Poverty and Vulnerability in Dhaka Slums: The Urban...

Author: Jane A. Pryer
ISBN: 9780754618645
Format: Hardback
$183.00

"Based upon the ""Dhaka Urban Livelihood Study"", Jane Pryer shows that the connections between socio-economic status...  Read More >>

Slum Upgrading and Participation: Lessons from Latin America

Slum Upgrading and Participation: Lessons from Latin...

Author: Oscar Arias
ISBN: 9780821353707
Format: Hardback
$92.40

This work explores the link between community participation and project impact in slum upgrading and housing initiatives....  Read More >>

Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power

Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and...

Author: Paul Chatterton ,  Robert Hollands
ISBN: 9780415283465
Format: Paperback
$84.00

Explores how urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking over large...  Read More >>

Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power

Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and...

Author: Paul Chatterton ,  Robert Hollands
ISBN: 9780415283458
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Explores how urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking over large...  Read More >>

Urban renaissance?: New Labour, community and urban policy

Urban renaissance?: New Labour, community and urban...

Author: Rob Imrie ,  Mike Raco
ISBN: 9781861343802
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This book documents and assesses the core of New Labour's approach to the revitalisation of cities.  Read More >>

Urban Renaissance?: New Labour, Community and Urban Policy

Urban Renaissance?: New Labour, Community and Urban...

Author: Robert Imrie ,  Mike Raco
ISBN: 9781861343819
Format: Hardback
$261.36

This book documents and assesses the core of New Labour's approach to the revitalisation of cities.  Read More >>

Theorizing The Southeast Asian City As Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, And Interpretative Experiences

Theorizing The Southeast Asian City As Text: Urban Landscapes,...

Author: Robbie B H Goh (Nus, S'pore) ,  Brenda S A Yeoh (Nus, S'pore)
ISBN: 9789812382832
Format: Hardback
$240.24

An examination of the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories...  Read More >>

Asphalt Gods: An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament

Asphalt Gods: An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament...

Author: Vincent M. Mallozzi
ISBN: 9780385520997
Format: Paperback
$50.16

The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who...  Read More >>

Cities without Suburbs: a Census 2000 Update

Cities without Suburbs: a Census 2000 Update

Author: David Rusk
ISBN: 9781930365131
Format: Hardback
$92.40

An analysis of America's cities, first published in 1993. Extending from 1950 to data drawn from the 2000 US census,...  Read More >>

East Enders: Family and community in East London

East Enders: Family and community in East London

Author: Katharine Mumford (no current affiliation) ,  Anne Power (London School of Economics and Political Science)
ISBN: 9781861344977
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This moving book about the lives of families in London's East End gives important new insights into neighbourhood...  Read More >>

East Enders: Family and community in East London

East Enders: Family and community in East London

Author: Katharine Mumford (no current affiliation) ,  Anne Power (London School of Economics and Political Science)
ISBN: 9781861344960
Format: Hardback
$174.99

This moving book about the lives of families in London's East End gives important new insights into neighbourhood...  Read More >>

Urban Encounters

Urban Encounters

Author: Helen Liggett
ISBN: 9780816641277
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Urban Encounters

Urban Encounters

Author: Helen Liggett
ISBN: 9780816641260
Format: Hardback
$148.00

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The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space

The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight...

Author: Don Mitchell (Syracuse University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781572308473
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Blending historical and geographical analysis, this is a study of the vital relationship between struggles over...  Read More >>

Welfare Reform and the Revitalization of Inner City Neighborhoods: Black American and Diasporic Studies

Welfare Reform and the Revitalization of Inner City...

Author: James Jennings
ISBN: 9780870136610
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Examines the institutional impact of welfare reform on community-based organizations. Rather than treating children...  Read More >>

Civic Culture and Urban Change: Governing Dallas

Civic Culture and Urban Change: Governing Dallas

Author: Royce Hanson
ISBN: 9780814330807
Format: Hardback
$110.75

Analysing Dallas government's adaptation to shifts in the city's demography and economic structure after Kennedy's...  Read More >>

Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America

Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of...

Author: Setha Low
ISBN: 9780415944380
Format: Hardback
$80.00

In the last twenty years, thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. What...  Read More >>

Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization

Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization...

Author: Fritz Wagner ,  Timothy Joder
ISBN: 9780815332121
Format: Hardback
$232.00

Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this...  Read More >>

Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

Author: David B Clarke
ISBN: 9780415205146
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Drawing on the work of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this...  Read More >>

Haddingtonshire (East Lothian): A Register and Almanac, 1921

Haddingtonshire (East Lothian): A Register and Almanac,...

Author: Oliver Boyd
ISBN: 9780902664593
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Originally published as part of Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, a bold attempt by Haddingtonshire ( East Lothian)...  Read More >>

Radical Space: Building the House of the People

Radical Space: Building the House of the People

Author: Margaret Kohn
ISBN: 9780801488603
Format: Paperback
$68.51

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Radical Space: Building the House of the People

Radical Space: Building the House of the People

Author: Margaret Kohn
ISBN: 9780801439926
Format: Hardback
$176.75

Epoch-making political events are often remembered for their spatial markers: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the storming...  Read More >>

Urban Renaissance: Berlin - Towards an Integrated Strategy for Social Cohesion and Economic Development

Urban Renaissance: Berlin - Towards an Integrated Strategy...

Author: Oecd
ISBN: 9781280170041
Format: Electronic book text
$375.20

Berlin has benefited significantly from German reunification.However, some persistent problems have accompanied...  Read More >>

Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

Author: David B Clarke
ISBN: 9780415205153
Format: Paperback
$76.00

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