Urban communities books

18366 books were found.

Early Urbanizations in the Levant: A Regional Narrative

Early Urbanizations in the Levant: A Regional Narrative...

Author: Raphael Greenberg
ISBN: 9786613192622
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

 Read More >>

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives...

Author: John Eade (University of Surrey Roehampton) ,  Christopher Mele
ISBN: 9780631224075
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take...  Read More >>

Near West Side Stories: Struggles for Community in Chicago's Maxwell Street Neighborhood

Near West Side Stories: Struggles for Community in Chicago's...

Author: Carolyn Eastwood, PH.D.
ISBN: 9781893121096
Format: Paperback
$47.39

A current and ongoing story of unequal power in Chicago. Four representatives of immigrant and migrant groups that...  Read More >>

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives...

Author: John Eade (University of Surrey Roehampton) ,  Christopher Mele
ISBN: 9780631224068
Format: Hardback
$135.95

This text aims to provide a contemporary, multi-disciplinary analysis of how the study of urban society is likely...  Read More >>

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific...

Author: Karl Popper
ISBN: 9780415285940
Format: Paperback
$32.95

One of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, it provides the clearest statement of the fundamental...  Read More >>

Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space

Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space...

Author: Peter Marcuse (, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University) ,  Ronald van Kempen (, Associate Professor, Urban Research Centre, Utrecht University)
ISBN: 9780198297192
Format: Hardback
$497.00

Globalization, the shape of cities, the future of cities, the increasing gap between rich and poor inhabitants,...  Read More >>

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific...

Author: Karl Popper
ISBN: 9780415285933
Format: Hardback
$189.00

As one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, Conjectures and Refutations provides the clearest statement...  Read More >>

Americans Lost

Americans Lost

Author: Linda Falkner
ISBN: 9781589392021
Format: Paperback
$36.83

In 1994, Linda Falkner began calling homeless shelters and mental health programs, trying to find help for her homeless,...  Read More >>

Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools

Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools

Author: William G Howell ,  Paul Peterson
ISBN: 9780815702146
Format: Hardback
$64.00

While the merits of vouchers have been the subject of intense public debate in recent years, there has been very...  Read More >>

Berlin Today

Berlin Today

Author: Christiane Kruse
ISBN: 9783791326467
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Focusing on 35 distinct areas of the city, this book presents the new face of the German capital, including the...  Read More >>

Urbanismus im Industriezeitalter: Von der klassizistischen Stadt zur Garden City

Urbanismus im Industriezeitalter: Von der klassizistischen...

Author: Walter Kiess
ISBN: 9783932565205
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Despite the wide variety of publications about urban development, there had been a lack of complete, coherent presentation...  Read More >>

In the City of Shy Hunters

In the City of Shy Hunters

Author: Tom Spanbauer
ISBN: 9780802138989
Format: Paperback
$36.96

"Tom Spanbauer is one of the most enchanting writers in America today, and In the City of Shy Hunters, his first...  Read More >>

American Indians and the Urban Experience

American Indians and the Urban Experience

Author: Susan Lobo ,  Kurt Peters
ISBN: 9780585386362
Format: Book
$147.49

Presents a collection of scholarship, poetry, prose, and art - from photography and graffiti to rap and songs -...  Read More >>

Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: Inner-City Youth and the New Global Frontier

Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: Inner-City...

Author: Charles W. Green
ISBN: 9780585386263
Format: Book
$147.49

Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban...  Read More >>

Global Networks, Linked Cities

Global Networks, Linked Cities

Author: Saskia Sassen
ISBN: 9780415931632
Format: Paperback
$64.00

A group of contributors look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks. They also investigate...  Read More >>

American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality

American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality

Author: Myron Orfield
ISBN: 9780815702481
Format: Hardback
$119.00

In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's...  Read More >>

Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems

Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition...

Author: Frederick M. Hess
ISBN: 9780815702085
Format: Hardback
$64.00

For more than a decade, school choice has been a flashpoint in debates about our nation's schooling. Perhaps the...  Read More >>

Smart and Sassy: The strengths of Inner City Black Girls

Smart and Sassy: The strengths of Inner City Black Girls...

Author: Joyce West Stevens (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Boston University)
ISBN: 9780195121650
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Empirically based, the daily experiences of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of...  Read More >>

Dominicans in New York City: Power From the Margins

Dominicans in New York City: Power From the Margins...

Author: Milagros Ricourt (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
ISBN: 9780415933308
Format: Hardback
$189.00

This study explores the diverse struggles of incorporation pursued by immigrants from the Dominican Republic to...  Read More >>

Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City

Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain...

Author: Michael B. Fabricant ,  Robert Fisher
ISBN: 9780231119313
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This book focuses on the externally driven difficulties of service workers and agencies in shaping services-such...  Read More >>

Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831

Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831...

Author: Thomas Philipp
ISBN: 9780231123273
Format: Paperback
$49.95

 Read More >>

American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality

American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality

Author: Myron Orfield
ISBN: 9780815702498
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List