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The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

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

Author: Mark Pelling
ISBN: 9781853838293
Format: Hardback
$204.00

When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. This title examines...  Read More >>

Air Pollution and Health in Rapidly Developing Countries

Air Pollution and Health in Rapidly Developing Countries...

Author: Gordon McGranahan ,  Frank Murray
ISBN: 9781853839665
Format: Hardback
$71.99

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

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis

Author: Robert E. Lang
ISBN: 9780815706120
Format: Hardback
$68.00

Edgeless cities are a sprawling form of development that accounts for the bulk of office space found outside of...  Read More >>

Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa

Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa...

Author: Garth Andrew Myers
ISBN: 9780815629726
Format: Hardback
$105.47

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa,...  Read More >>

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis

Author: Robert E. Lang
ISBN: 9780815706113
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Until now, edgeless cities have been the unstudied phenomena of the new metropolis. Lang's conceptual approach reframes...  Read More >>

A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism

A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism...

Author: Owen Fiss ,  Joshua Cohen
ISBN: 9780691088815
Format: Hardback
$79.99

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Better Class Streets of London 1918

Better Class Streets of London 1918

Author: Kelly's Directories
ISBN: 9780902664159
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Originally published as part of the Royal Blue Book, Court and Parliamentary Guide in May, 1918, which included...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Chris Wilson ,  Paul Groth
ISBN: 9780520229600
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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

Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany

Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial...

Author: Dorothy Rowe
ISBN: 9780754604518
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

Author: Stephen Lovell
ISBN: 9780801440717
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A fascinating work rich in detail, Summerfolk explores the ways in which Russia's turbulent past has shaped the...  Read More >>

Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meanings of Urban Sport Cultures

Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meanings of Urban...

Author: Ralph C. Wilcox ,  David L. Andrews
ISBN: 9780791456705
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the...  Read More >>

Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood

Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and...

Author: Maria Kefalas
ISBN: 9780520235434
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied...  Read More >>

The Urban Revolution

The Urban Revolution

Author: Henri Lefebvre ,  Robert Bononno
ISBN: 9780816641604
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society,...  Read More >>

The Urban Revolution

The Urban Revolution

Author: Henri Lefebvre ,  Robert Bononno
ISBN: 9780816641598
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society,...  Read More >>

Baltic Commerce and Urban Society, 1500-1700: Gdansk/Danzig and its Polish Context

Baltic Commerce and Urban Society, 1500-1700: Gdansk/Danzig...

Author: Maria Bogucka
ISBN: 9780860789093
Format: Hardback
$179.00

Through Danzig, now Gdansk, passed the greatest part of the trade that linked the West with Poland and the Baltic....  Read More >>

The Decline and Fall of the Roman City

The Decline and Fall of the Roman City

Author: J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz (, Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780199261093
Format: Paperback
$181.95

Professor Liebeschuetz examines what happened to the cities of the Roman world in the years when the Roman Empire...  Read More >>

Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities

Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities...

Author: Tim Hall ,  Malcolm Miles
ISBN: 9780415266932
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Bringing together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture,...  Read More >>

High Calvinists in Action: Calvinism and the City - Manchester and London, c. 1810-1860

High Calvinists in Action: Calvinism and the City -...

Author: Ian J. Shaw (, Lecturer in Church History at International Christian College, Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780199250776
Format: Hardback
$419.00

This contribution to the debate about the relation of religion to the modern city fills a gap in the historiography...  Read More >>

After-Images of the City

After-Images of the City

Author: Joan Ramon Resina ,  Dieter Ingenschay
ISBN: 9780801487897
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change...  Read More >>

After-Images of the City

After-Images of the City

Author: Joan Ramon Resina ,  Dieter Ingenschay
ISBN: 9780801440212
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change...  Read More >>

The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice

The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice...

Author: John Whitelegg ,  Gary Haq
ISBN: 9781853838514
Format: Paperback
$79.95

Contains 16 important contributions on how to improve transport globally, based on science, people-centred analysis,...  Read More >>

The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice

The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice...

Author: John Whitelegg ,  Gary Haq
ISBN: 9781853838507
Format: Hardback
$216.00

Transport is a critical problem throughout the world, and it is set to get worse. Whether it is traffic congestion,...  Read More >>

Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000

Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from...

Author: Bruce Katz ,  Robert E. Lang
ISBN: 9780815748595
Format: Paperback
$52.99

The early returns from Census 2000 data show that the United States continued to undergo dynamic changes in the...  Read More >>

Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment

Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations...

Author: Brenda S.A. Yeoh
ISBN: 9789971692681
Format: Paperback
$73.92

In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issues....  Read More >>

Forum of Cities and Regions of South-East Europe

Forum of Cities and Regions of South-East Europe

Author: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287150516
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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