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Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education

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

Author: A R Berkowitz ,  C H Nilon
ISBN: 9781280009815
Format: Undefined
$393.36

Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts...  Read More >>

Fractured Cities: Capitalism, Community and Empowerment in Britain and America

Fractured Cities: Capitalism, Community and Empowerment...

Author: Brian D Jacobs
ISBN: 9781280020599
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict. Their fate is increasingly...  Read More >>

Urban World/Global City

Urban World/Global City

Author: David Clark
ISBN: 9781280051999
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

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

Envisioning Telecity: Towards the Urbanisation of Ict

Envisioning Telecity: Towards the Urbanisation of Ict...

Author: Bernd Fischer (Institute of Mathematics Medical University of L?beck Germany) ,  Frank Helten
ISBN: 9780820464534
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Contents: Florian Rotzer: Restructuring Cities - Stephen Graham/Simon Marvin: Planning Cyber-Cities? Integrating...  Read More >>

Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities

Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development,...

Author: Kent E. Portney (Department of Political Science)
ISBN: 9780262661324
Format: Paperback
$84.48

A theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in U.S. cities.  Read More >>

The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire

The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in...

Author: Jens Hanssen (University of Toronto) ,  Thomas Philipp (Institut Fur Politische Wissenschaft Erlangen Germany)
ISBN: 9783935556897
Format: Paperback
$282.48

The book is about the Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire  Read More >>

Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment and Quality of Life in American Cities

Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development,...

Author: Kent E. Portney (Department of Political Science)
ISBN: 9780262162135
Format: Hardback
$184.80

A theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in U.S. cities.  Read More >>

Old Seoul

Old Seoul

Author: Keith Pratt
ISBN: 9780195930870
Format: Hardback
$28.95

"IOA Seoul reconstructs for the reader the city as it was in the last decades of the nineteenth century, when it...  Read More >>

Clinical Assessment and Substance Abuse Treatment: The Target Cities Experience

Clinical Assessment and Substance Abuse Treatment: The...

Author: Richard C. Stephens ,  Christy K Scott
ISBN: 9780791455937
Format: Hardback
$180.84

Evaluates drug and alcohol abuse treatment systems and their effects on individual alcohol and drug abusers.  Read More >>

Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society

Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New...

Author: Mark Liechty
ISBN: 9780691095936
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society

Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New...

Author: Mark Liechty
ISBN: 9780691095929
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This study traces the growth of a new middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources...  Read More >>

Dead Cities: And Other Tales

Dead Cities: And Other Tales

Author: Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781565847651
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone of modern urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged...  Read More >>

Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social...

Author: Jos Gamble
ISBN: 9780700715718
Format: Hardback
$294.00

China's largest metropolis, Shanghai, has undergone a decade of far-reaching economic and social transformation....  Read More >>

State/Space: A Reader

State/Space: A Reader

Author: Neil Brenner ,  Bob Jessop
ISBN: 9786611323042
Format: Electronic book text
$686.14

* The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power...  Read More >>

Cities and Urban Cultures

Cities and Urban Cultures

Author: Deborah Stevenson ,  Stevenson, JR., James William William William William Graham
ISBN: 9786610948130
Format: Electronic book text
$232.21

Explores cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods

House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's...

Author: Professor Alexander Von Hoffman
ISBN: 9786610531592
Format: Electronic book text
$46.91

Based on years of research, this is the inspiring story of the dramatic revitalization of urban wastelands from...  Read More >>

Imaginative Structure of the City

Imaginative Structure of the City

Author: Alan Blum
ISBN: 9781282861138
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

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Crime in the City: A Political and Economic Analysis of Urban Crime

Crime in the City: A Political and Economic Analysis...

Author: Lesley Williams Reid
ISBN: 9781280361340
Format: Electronic book text
$171.60

By exploring the political and economic histories of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and New Orleans, Reid documents how...  Read More >>

Hope and Danger in the New South City

Hope and Danger in the New South City

Author: Georgina Hickey
ISBN: 9781282799882
Format: Electronic book text
$105.47

For Atlanta, the early decades of the twentieth century brought chaotic economic and demographic growth. Women--black...  Read More >>

Urban Renaissance?

Urban Renaissance?

Author:
ISBN: 9781282318991
Format: Undefined
$290.40

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Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women

Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women...

Author: Rae Bridgman
ISBN: 9781282025905
Format: Electronic book text
$152.06

Based on many hours of participant observation as well as interviews and staff records, Safe Haven presents a distinct...  Read More >>

Frontiers and Ghettos

Frontiers and Ghettos

Author: James Ron
ISBN: 9781282359628
Format: Electronic book text
$81.71

James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence....  Read More >>

Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City: An Analysis of Diasporic Temporalities

Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York...

Author: Michel S Laguerre (University of California, USA)
ISBN: 9781280425820
Format: Electronic book text
$308.88

This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation...  Read More >>

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