Urban communities books

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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: 9780231119306
Format: Hardback
$215.95

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: 9780231123266
Format: Hardback
$173.95

An important contribution to the discussion of the Arab lands before European hegemony and a detailed study of a...  Read More >>

Cities: Reimagining the Urban

Cities: Reimagining the Urban

Author: Ash Amin (University of Durham) ,  Nigel Thrift (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780745624143
Format: Paperback
$32.95

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional...  Read More >>

Cities: Reimagining the Urban

Cities: Reimagining the Urban

Author: Ash Amin (University of Durham) ,  Nigel Thrift (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780745624136
Format: Hardback
$103.95

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material...  Read More >>

Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives from Philosophy, Geography, and Architecture

Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives...

Author: Gary Backhaus ,  John Murungi
ISBN: 9780739103364
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This is a collection of essays, selected from presentations at the first annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy...  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: 9780815702092
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives. Studies in Urban and Social Change.

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives....

Author: John Eade ,  Christopher Mele
ISBN: 9786611309589
Format: Electronic book text
$686.40

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Young Citizens: Children as Active Citizens Around the World - A Teaching Pack for Key Stage 2

Young Citizens: Children as Active Citizens Around the...

Author: Teresa Garlake
ISBN: 9781841870571
Format: Mixed media product
$38.81

Young Citizens looks at children taking action in their communities. Through the lives of five young citizens from...  Read More >>

Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America

Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America...

Author: Hasia R. Diner
ISBN: 9780691095455
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945

Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity...

Author: Laura Fair (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9780852557952
Format: Paperback
$47.49

In post-abolition Zanzibar ex-slaves re-created their individual and collective class, gender and ethnic identities...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism

Author: Carol A Breckenridge ,  Sheldon Pollock (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781283063197
Format: Electronic book text
$269.12

Fourth volume of the Millennial Quartet.  Read More >>

Focusing Partnerships: A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-private Partnerships

Focusing Partnerships: A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity...

Author: Janelle Plummer
ISBN: 9781853838385
Format: Paperback
$96.95

With illustrative material from Africa, Asia and Latin America, this book sets out a strategic framework for building...  Read More >>

Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries

Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for the Urban...

Author: Alain Durand-Lasserve ,  Lauren Royston
ISBN: 9781853838910
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Security of land tenure for the urban poor is a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America....  Read More >>

Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries

Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for the Urban...

Author: Alain Durand-Lasserve ,  Lauren Royston
ISBN: 9781853838903
Format: Hardback
$204.00

Security of land tenure for the urban poor is a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America....  Read More >>

Towards an Urban Nation: Germany since 1780

Towards an Urban Nation: Germany since 1780

Author: Friedrich Lenger
ISBN: 9781859735862
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Explores the impact of Germany's urbanization during the 19th and 20th centuries. It reveals what the new cities...  Read More >>

Urban competitiveness: Policies for dynamic cities

Urban competitiveness: Policies for dynamic cities

Author: Iain Begg
ISBN: 9781861343574
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The factors that make some cities more successful has become an increasingly important policy issue. This book is...  Read More >>

Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class

Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations:...

Author: Chowdhry Geeta (geeta.chowdhry@nau.edu Undeliverable Oct 20. Case 01680048) ,  Sheila Nair (Northern Arizona University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415271608
Format: Hardback
$422.40

This volume uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring...  Read More >>

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First...

Author: Hal Rothman
ISBN: 9780415926126
Format: Hardback
$208.00

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Urbanisation in the Island Pacific: Towards Sustainable Development

Urbanisation in the Island Pacific: Towards Sustainable...

Author: John Connell ,  John Lea
ISBN: 9780415246705
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This is the first overview of urbanisation in eleven independent island states of the Pacific. It examines recent...  Read More >>

The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities

The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities...

Author: Joseph Rykwert ,  Rykwert
ISBN: 9780375700446
Format: Paperback
$47.52

No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting....  Read More >>

Diners, Bowling Alleys, And Trailer Parks: Chasing The American Dream In The Postwar Consumer Culture

Diners, Bowling Alleys, And Trailer Parks: Chasing The...

Author: Andrew Hurley
ISBN: 9780465031870
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An entertaining and revealing history that charts the hopes, dreams, fears, and frustrations of Americans as they...  Read More >>

Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community

Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York...

Author: Paul H. Mattingly (New York University)
ISBN: 9780801866807
Format: Hardback
$109.00

Oral histories, census records, and the extensive work of Leonia's many artists and writers come together to trace...  Read More >>

Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability

Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and...

Author: Peter Evans
ISBN: 9780520230255
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The cities of the developing world are hubs of economic growth, but they are increasingly ecologically unsustainable...  Read More >>

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