Urban communities books

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Communicating for Development: Experience from the urban environment

Communicating for Development: Experience from the urban...

Author: Catalina Gandelsonas
ISBN: 9781853395420
Format: Paperback
$64.56

The book offers in-depth discussion about how the communication process works - or doesn't work. It questions and...  Read More >>

Planning in Cities: Sustainability and growth in the developing world

Planning in Cities: Sustainability and growth in the...

Author: Roger Zetter ,  Rodney White
ISBN: 9781853395437
Format: Paperback
$59.38

Planning in Cities is an innovative collection which bridges theory and practice to explore the conflicting challenges...  Read More >>

Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe

Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North...

Author: Neil Brenner (New York University) ,  Nik Theodore (University of Illinois at Chicago)
ISBN: 9781405101059
Format: Paperback
$20.95

* Includes contributions from leading scholars in the fields of critical urban studies, radical geography and state...  Read More >>

The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective

The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical...

Author: Anthony M. Orum (University of Illinois Chicago) ,  Xiangming Chen (University of Illinois Chicago)
ISBN: 9780631210269
Format: Paperback
$80.95

A theoretical and empirical introduction to urban sociology. In clear terms, the book surveys and critiques all...  Read More >>

The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective

The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical...

Author: Anthony M. Orum ,  Xiangming Chen
ISBN: 9780631210252
Format: Hardback
$321.95

A theoretical and empirical introduction to urban sociology. In clear terms, the book surveys and critiques all...  Read More >>

Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men: Living in Urban Mexico

Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men: Living in Urban...

Author: Valentina Napolitano
ISBN: 9780520233195
Format: Paperback
$52.95

An analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. It explores issues of migration, medicine,...  Read More >>

Cities and Climate Change

Cities and Climate Change

Author: Michelle Betsill ,  Harriet Bulkeley (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415273794
Format: Hardback
$294.00

An in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change and illustrates the...  Read More >>

Challenges of Urban Education and Efficacy of School Reform

Challenges of Urban Education and Efficacy of School...

Author: Dr. Richard C. Hunter ,  Frank Brown
ISBN: 9780762304264
Format: Hardback
$284.95

In an overview of the state of reform of the US education system a number of experts discuss issues ranging from...  Read More >>

In Gotham's Shadow: Globalization and Community Change in Central New York

In Gotham's Shadow: Globalization and Community Change...

Author: Alexander R. Thomas
ISBN: 9780791455968
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Examines the effects of globalization on three New York communities—Utica, Cooperstown, and Hartwick.  Read More >>

In Gotham's Shadow: Globalization and Community Change in Central New York

In Gotham's Shadow: Globalization and Community Change...

Author: Alexander R. Thomas
ISBN: 9780791455951
Format: Hardback
$130.68

Examines the effects of globalization on three New York communities—Utica, Cooperstown, and Hartwick.  Read More >>

Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education

Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science...

Author: Alan R. Berkowitz ,  Charles H. Nilon
ISBN: 9780387952376
Format: Paperback
$211.07

A challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human...  Read More >>

Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities

Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities...

Author: Tim Hall ,  Malcolm Miles
ISBN: 9780415266949
Format: Paperback
$78.00

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

The Disappearing Asian City: Protecting Asia's Urban Heritage in a Globalizing World

The Disappearing Asian City: Protecting Asia's Urban...

Author: William S. Logan
ISBN: 9780195921052
Format: Hardback
$118.80

The Disappearing Asian City is a comparative study of urban heritage attitudes, threats, planning policies, and...  Read More >>

Sodom Laurel Album

Sodom Laurel Album

Author: Rob Amberg
ISBN: 9780807827420
Format: Hardback
$131.87

When Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton, she was 76 years old and had lived most of her life in the mountain community...  Read More >>

Urban Affairs: Back on the Policy Agenda

Urban Affairs: Back on the Policy Agenda

Author: Caroline Andrew ,  Katherine A.H. Graham
ISBN: 9780773523531
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Something Better for Our Children: Black Organization in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963-1971

Something Better for Our Children: Black Organization...

Author: Dionne Danns
ISBN: 9780415935753
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This work examines the critical role the black community played in organising the Chicago school reform in the 1960s,...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity

Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity

Author: Mike Savage ,  A. Warde
ISBN: 9780333971604
Format: Paperback
$100.32

The long-awaited second edition of this highly successful text on urban sociology retains the distinctive character...  Read More >>

Urban Affairs: Back on the Policy Agenda

Urban Affairs: Back on the Policy Agenda

Author: Caroline Andrew ,  Katherine A.H. Graham
ISBN: 9780773523524
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy

Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community...

Author: Belinda Leach ,  Anthony Winson
ISBN: 9780802084262
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people's lives and ultimately...  Read More >>

Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan

Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan...

Author: Lecturer in Modern Japanese History Ann Waswo (Oxford University) ,  Yoshiaki Nishida
ISBN: 9781280071393
Format: Electronic book text
$469.92

Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature...  Read More >>

The Crisis of London

The Crisis of London

Author: Andy Thornley
ISBN: 9781280020476
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

London is in a mess. This is evident from the increasingly unpleasant experience of daily life in the capital, from...  Read More >>

The Apartheid City and Beyond: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa

The Apartheid City and Beyond: Urbanization and Social...

Author: David Smith (Lancaster University)
ISBN: 9781280067556
Format: Electronic book text
$538.56

Apartheid as legislated racial separation substantially changed the South African urban scene. Race group areas'...  Read More >>

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