Urban communities books

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Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York

Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway,...

Author: Lawrence Kaplan ,  Carol Kaplan
ISBN: 9780231128490
Format: Paperback
$82.95

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in southern Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after...  Read More >>

CITIES AND URBAN CULTURES

CITIES AND URBAN CULTURES

Author: Deborah Stevenson
ISBN: 9780335208449
Format: Paperback
$153.12

This is the first book to explore cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory....  Read More >>

Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York

Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway,...

Author: Lawrence Kaplan ,  Carol Kaplan
ISBN: 9780231128483
Format: Hardback
$257.95

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in southern Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after...  Read More >>

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950

Author: Robert M. Fogelson
ISBN: 9780300098273
Format: Paperback
$80.95

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Urban renaissance?: New Labour, community and urban policy

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

Author: Rob Imrie ,  Mike Raco
ISBN: 9781847425706
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

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

NGO Responses to Urban Poverty: Service Providers or Partners in Planning?

NGO Responses to Urban Poverty: Service Providers or...

Author: Caroline Sahley ,  Brian Pratt
ISBN: 9781897748473
Format: Paperback
$30.92

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Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body

Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and...

Author: Professor Iain Borden (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781859734933
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - estimated at 40 million worldwide and...  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 ,  Brenda S A Yeoh
ISBN: 9786611933821
Format: Electronic book text
$438.24

An examination of the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories...  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 ,  Brenda S A Yeoh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
ISBN: 9781281933829
Format: Electronic book text
$262.94

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

Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America

Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America...

Author: Curtis Stokes ,  Theresa Melendez
ISBN: 9780870136696
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This work examines the philosophical and political framework that informs public policy impacting racially and ethnically...  Read More >>

Here's the Deal: The Making and Breaking of a Great American City

Here's the Deal: The Making and Breaking of a Great...

Author: Ross Miller
ISBN: 9780810120372
Format: Paperback
$47.39

In this work, Ross Miller makes the historical and political connections necessary to understand how modern city...  Read More >>

The Idea and Ideal of the Town between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

The Idea and Ideal of the Town between Late Antiquity...

Author: Brogiolo ,  Ward-Perkins
ISBN: 9789004109018
Format: Hardback
$462.00

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Towns and their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Towns and their Territories Between Late Antiquity and...

Author: Brogiolo ,  N. Gauthier
ISBN: 9789004118690
Format: Hardback
$551.76

These papers focus on themes such as: the evolution of settlement patterns in the Byzantine Empire; the impact of...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes

Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global...

Author: Ryan Bishop ,  John Phillips
ISBN: 9780415932493
Format: Hardback
$232.00

A common assumption about cities throughout the world is that they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American...  Read More >>

The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition

The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition

Author: James Howard Kunstler
ISBN: 9780743227230
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Screening the City

Screening the City

Author: Mark Shiel ,  Tony Fitzmaurice
ISBN: 9781859844762
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A collection of essays on the role of the city as a location in film. Covers a diverse selection of films including,...  Read More >>

Screening the City

Screening the City

Author: Mark Shiel ,  Tony Fitzmaurice
ISBN: 9781859846902
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A collection of essays on the role of the city as a location in film. Covers a diverse selection of films including,...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes

Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global...

Author: Ryan Bishop ,  John Phillips
ISBN: 9780415932509
Format: Paperback
$67.00

This volume focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism...  Read More >>

Public and Private Spaces of the City

Public and Private Spaces of the City

Author: Ali Madanipour
ISBN: 9780415256292
Format: Paperback
$98.00

The subdivision of our social world and the spaces we inhabit into public and private spheres is a key feature of...  Read More >>

Public and Private Spaces of the City

Public and Private Spaces of the City

Author: Ali Madanipour
ISBN: 9780415256285
Format: Hardback
$308.00

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Main Street: Some Lessons in Revitalization

Main Street: Some Lessons in Revitalization

Author: Louis Lopilato, II
ISBN: 9780761824671
Format: Paperback
$101.64

This book demonstrates how communities can harness 'main street's' dynamic forces and make them work to their advantage....  Read More >>

Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J. B. Jackson

Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J....

Author: Chris Wilson ,  Paul Groth
ISBN: 9780520229617
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Surveying the widening conceptions and applications of cultural landscape writing in the United States, this text...  Read More >>

The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social...

Author: Mark Pelling
ISBN: 9781853838309
Format: Paperback
$59.95

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Air Pollution and Health in Rapidly Developing Countries

Air Pollution and Health in Rapidly Developing Countries...

Author: Gordon McGranahan ,  Frank Murray
ISBN: 9781853839856
Format: Paperback
$46.99

In developing countries the price of rapid growth is all too often noxious airborne pollution, which annually contributes...  Read More >>

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