Urban communities books

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Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning Theory

Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning Theory...

Author: Philip Allmendinger ,  Mark Tewdwr-Jones
ISBN: 9780415270038
Format: Hardback
$252.00

"""Planning Futures"" is an up-to-date reader on planning theory, but seeks to add something more to the subject...  Read More >>

Urban Life in the Middle Ages: 1000-1450

Urban Life in the Middle Ages: 1000-1450

Author: Keith Lilley
ISBN: 9780333712498
Format: Paperback
$102.96

What was life like in the towns and cities of medieval Europe? How did people live, and why did some towns grow...  Read More >>

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual...

Author: David Driskell
ISBN: 9781853838538
Format: Paperback
$69.95

A manual that shows how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community...  Read More >>

Growing Up in an Urbanizing World

Growing Up in an Urbanizing World

Author: Louise Chawla
ISBN: 9781853838286
Format: Paperback
$79.95

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Growing Up in an Urbanizing World

Growing Up in an Urbanizing World

Author: Louise Chawla
ISBN: 9781853838279
Format: Hardback
$216.00

This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the...  Read More >>

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern...

Author: Amy Bingaman ,  Lise Sanders
ISBN: 9780415248136
Format: Hardback
$266.00

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Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950

Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity,...

Author: Joseph W. Esherick
ISBN: 9780824825188
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Focusing on the experience of Chinese cities in the early 20th century, this work brings together research by a...  Read More >>

The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language

The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language...

Author: Deborah Cameron ,  Thomas A. Markus
ISBN: 9780415143462
Format: Paperback
$112.00

The authors of this work, one a linguist, the other an architect and historian, examine how texts which concern...  Read More >>

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern...

Author: Amy Bingaman ,  Lise Sanders
ISBN: 9780415248143
Format: Paperback
$98.00

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The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language

The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language...

Author: Deborah Cameron ,  Thomas A. Markus
ISBN: 9780415143455
Format: Hardback
$266.00

The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new parliament, and Auschwitz concentration...  Read More >>

The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt

The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt

Author: Richard Alston
ISBN: 9780415237017
Format: Hardback
$252.00

After Egypt became part of the Roman Empire in 30 BC, Classical and then Christian influences both made their mark...  Read More >>

From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory

From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory

Author: Michael Dear
ISBN: 9780761920953
Format: Paperback
$268.00

Examines some of the major precepts of what some refer to as the 'Los Angeles School' of urban theory.  Read More >>

Policing the Poor: From Slave Plantation to Public Housing

Policing the Poor: From Slave Plantation to Public Housing...

Author: Neil Websdale
ISBN: 9781555534974
Format: Hardback
$112.56

Neil Websdale contends that community and saturation policing, and other such law enforcement initiatives, oppress...  Read More >>

The Wandering Jews

The Wandering Jews

Author: Joseph Roth ,  Michael Hofmann
ISBN: 9781862074705
Format: Paperback
$31.02

In the last years of Weimar Germany, Roth set out to explore the Jewish communities scattered across Europe. He...  Read More >>

The City: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

The City: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

Author: Michael Pacione (University of Strathclyde, Scotland, U.K.)
ISBN: 9780415252690
Format: Mixed media product
$2070.00

This anthology synthesizes a wealth of published research to provide students of the city with a comprehensive and...  Read More >>

Villages in the Future: Crops, Jobs and Livelihood

Villages in the Future: Crops, Jobs and Livelihood

Author: Detlef Virchow ,  Joachim von Braun
ISBN: 9783540424673
Format: Hardback
$419.76

Life in rural communities is bound to change with historically unprecedented speed in the coming decades. How will...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology: Images and Structure

Urban Sociology: Images and Structure

Author: William G. Flanagan
ISBN: 9780205335329
Format: Paperback
$370.13

Urban Sociology provides a balanced framework for the study of the field by evaluating and integrating both ecological...  Read More >>

The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java

The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West...

Author: Sean Williams
ISBN: 9780195141559
Format: Mixed media product
$158.40

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Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images

Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images

Author: Howard Rock ,  Deborah Dash Moore
ISBN: 9780231106245
Format: Hardback
$212.52

Through almost 800 images, this book tells the story of the city from its origins in the early seventeenth century...  Read More >>

Rebuilding Community: Policy and Practice in Urban Regeneration

Rebuilding Community: Policy and Practice in Urban Regeneration...

Author: J. Pierson ,  Joan Smith
ISBN: 9780333747650
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those...  Read More >>

American Cities: A Bibliography - Volume 2

American Cities: A Bibliography - Volume 2

Author: Nicholas O Kura ,  Tatiana Shohov
ISBN: 9781560729617
Format: Hardback
$215.16

The focus of this book is on history, guide books, directories, politics and government, race relations, social...  Read More >>

Innovatory Social Policies in the City: Proceedings, Oslo Conference, 22 to 24 June 2000

Innovatory Social Policies in the City: Proceedings,...

Author: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287145772
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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