Urban communities books

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Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures Set: Cities and Cultures Around the World

Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures Set: Cities and Cultures...

Author: Grolier
ISBN: 9780717256983
Format: Hardback
$1053.36

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Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865

Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865

Author: Edward K. Spann
ISBN: 9780842050562
Format: Hardback
$159.95

Gives an account of America's biggest and most powerful urban center during the Civil War.  Read More >>

Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems

Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems...

Author: Pietro S. Nivola
ISBN: 9780815760948
Format: Paperback
$42.99

During the past decade, dozens of large cities lost population as jobs and people kept moving to the suburbs. Despite...  Read More >>

Urban Communities in Early Spanish America 1493-1700

Urban Communities in Early Spanish America 1493-1700...

Author: Felix Jay
ISBN: 9780773471689
Format: Hardback
$316.67

This study demonstrates that the Spanish conquest produced an undeniable urban pattern, not simply a large plantation...  Read More >>

Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City

Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City

Author: Andrew Merrifield
ISBN: 9780415933490
Format: Paperback
$64.00

This accessible account of Marxism and the city covers their relationship from the 1850s to the present through...  Read More >>

Towns and Material Culture in the Medieval Middle East

Towns and Material Culture in the Medieval Middle East...

Author: Yaacov Lev
ISBN: 9789004125438
Format: Hardback
$438.24

An examination of the interplay between urban society and material culture in the mediaeval and Ottoman Middle East....  Read More >>

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities,...

Author: Steven Johnson
ISBN: 9780684868769
Format: Paperback
$47.49

"In the groundbreaking tradition of ""Complexity"" and ""The Society of Mind, "" visionary guru Johnson makes sense...  Read More >>

Community and Quality of Life: Data Needs for Informed Decision Making

Community and Quality of Life: Data Needs for Informed...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Earth and Life Studies
ISBN: 9780309082600
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Discusses concepts that undergird community life and offers recommendations for collaborative planning across space...  Read More >>

The Human Tradition in Urban America

The Human Tradition in Urban America

Author: Roger Biles
ISBN: 9780842029933
Format: Paperback
$54.95

This text offers an intimate telling of America's evolution into an urban nation through the experiences of individuals....  Read More >>

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice...

Author: David N Pellow
ISBN: 9780262162128
Format: Hardback
$79.20

A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago....  Read More >>

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban...

Author: Peter Hall
ISBN: 9780631232520
Format: Paperback
$145.07

This volume is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the 20th century, as well as of the social...  Read More >>

The Human Tradition in California

The Human Tradition in California

Author: Clark Davis ,  David Igler
ISBN: 9780842050272
Format: Paperback
$54.95

With a land mass one and half times larger than the United Kingdom, the history of the state of California demands...  Read More >>

Cali, Colombia: Toward a City Development Strategy

Cali, Colombia: Toward a City Development Strategy

Author: World Bank
ISBN: 9780821351741
Format: Paperback
$58.08

In order to help the city of Cali, the World Bank, along with Cali, collaborated on a city development strategy...  Read More >>

Cali, Colombia: Hacia una Estrategia de Desarrollo de Ciudad

Cali, Colombia: Hacia una Estrategia de Desarrollo de...

Author: World Bank
ISBN: 9780821351758
Format: Paperback
$49.03

In order to help the city of Cali, the World Bank, along with Cali, collaborated on a city development strategy...  Read More >>

Building Philanthropic and Social Capital: The Work of Community Foundations

Building Philanthropic and Social Capital: The Work...

Author: Peter Walkenhorst
ISBN: 9783892045632
Format: Paperback
$39.60

This volume explores the work of community foundations within the framework of the goals of the Philanthropy and...  Read More >>

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2002

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2002

Author: William G. Gale ,  Janet Rothenberg Pack
ISBN: 9780815730774
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, this new series contains studies on urban sprawl,...  Read More >>

Suburban Sprawl: Private Decisions and Public Policy

Suburban Sprawl: Private Decisions and Public Policy...

Author: Wim Wiewel ,  Joseph J. Persky
ISBN: 9780765609670
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This work combines historical, political, economic, geographical and urban planning analysis to provide a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Work on the West Side: Urban Neighborhoods and the Cultural Exclusion of Youths

Work on the West Side: Urban Neighborhoods and the Cultural...

Author: Harald Bauder
ISBN: 9780739104132
Format: Hardback
$166.32

This text addresses the role of geographical processes in shaping the employment situation of urban minority youths....  Read More >>

Innovation and the Growth of Cities

Innovation and the Growth of Cities

Author: Zoltán J. Ács ,  Richard Florida
ISBN: 9781840649369
Format: Hardback
$254.75

This new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth...  Read More >>

Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change Since 1800

Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change Since 1800...

Author: Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading, UK)
ISBN: 9781860645143
Format: Hardback
$118.00

"In this work Jeremy Burchardt argues that the present ""town versus country"" debate lies at the root of modern...  Read More >>

Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture

Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban...

Author: Diane Winston ,  Diane Winston
ISBN: 9780813530987
Format: Hardback
$158.40

The essays in this volume challenge the notion of the ""secular city"" and examine how members of urban houses of...  Read More >>

The Transformation of Cities: Urban Theory and Urban Life

The Transformation of Cities: Urban Theory and Urban...

Author: David C. Thorns
ISBN: 9780333745977
Format: Paperback
$116.16

This book examines the transformation of the city in the late 20th century and explores the ways in which city life...  Read More >>

Tenement: Immigrant Life

Tenement: Immigrant Life

Author: Bial
ISBN: 9780618138494
Format: Audio
$44.88

Life on the Lower East Side was bustling. Immigrants from many European countries had come to make a better life...  Read More >>

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