Urban communities books

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St. Louis: Evolution Of American Urban Landscape

St. Louis: Evolution Of American Urban Landscape

Author: ERIC SANDWEISS
ISBN: 9781566398855
Format: Hardback
$220.44

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Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture and Community Life in Urban America

Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture...

Author: Robert B. Fairbanks ,  Patricia Mooney-Melvin
ISBN: 9780814208816
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Explores the way in which urbanites have attempted to confront the challenges of urban life during the 19th and...  Read More >>

St. Louis: Evolution Of American Urban Landscape

St. Louis: Evolution Of American Urban Landscape

Author: ERIC SANDWEISS
ISBN: 9781566398862
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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Migration, Transnationalization and Race in a Changing New York

Migration, Transnationalization and Race in a Changing...

Author: Hector R. Cordero-Guzman ,  Robert C. Smith
ISBN: 9781566398886
Format: Paperback
$76.43

A collection of essays which explore the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic...  Read More >>

Where Is My Town?: First Step Where Am I?

Where Is My Town?: First Step Where Am I?

Author: Robin Nelson
ISBN: 9780822519799
Format: Paperback
$15.71

A basic introduction to the concept of towns. Color photographs reflect the short, easy-to-understand sentences...  Read More >>

Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America

Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities...

Author: Peter Wolf
ISBN: 9780813530437
Format: Paperback
$63.36

This text focuses on the growth of American towns - boom towns that grow in jobs and population at two or three...  Read More >>

Understanding Amsterdam: Essays in Economic Vitality, City Life and Urban Form

Understanding Amsterdam: Essays in Economic Vitality,...

Author: Leon Deben (Associate Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Amsterdam) ,  Willem Heinemeijer (formerly Professor of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9789055891481
Format: Paperback
$60.59

These essays on Amsterdam present views on the economy, the cultural and spatial layout, and new ways of thinking...  Read More >>

Landscapes Of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India’s High-Tech City

Landscapes Of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic...

Author: Smriti Srinivas
ISBN: 9780816636167
Format: Paperback
$43.95

A rich analysis of religion, civic life, and global transformation in India. Established in the middle of the sixteenth...  Read More >>

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2001

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2001

Author: William G. Gale ,  Janet Rothenberg Pack
ISBN: 9780815730767
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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

City and Country: An Interdisciplinary Collection

City and Country: An Interdisciplinary Collection

Author: Laurence S. Moss (Babson College)
ISBN: 9780631228844
Format: Hardback
$164.95

The papers in this volume examine the processes by which cities grow and how current public policy, both in the...  Read More >>

Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany

Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early...

Author: B.Ann Tlusty
ISBN: 9780813920450
Format: Paperback
$77.88

Augsberg's taverns and drinking rooms ranged from poorly lit rooms to elaborate marble halls. This volume examines...  Read More >>

Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany

Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early...

Author: B.Ann Tlusty
ISBN: 9780813920443
Format: Hardback
$157.08

Augsberg's taverns and drinking rooms ranged from poorly lit rooms to elaborate marble halls. This volume examines...  Read More >>

New York Night: The Mystique and Its History

New York Night: The Mystique and Its History

Author: Mark Caldwell
ISBN: 9780743242776
Format: Paperback
$71.15

A critic and historian presents more than 350 years in the night life of America's most vital and fascinating city--featuring...  Read More >>

American Dreamscape

American Dreamscape

Author: Tom Martinson
ISBN: 9780786707713
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Filmmakers, novelists, social critics, environmentalists - they all decry suburbia, and the myths of mindless conformity...  Read More >>

Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment

Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment

Author: Kevin Fox Gotham ,  Ray Hutchison
ISBN: 9780762305414
Format: Hardback
$320.95

Studies research in urban sociology. This work presents an analysis of race and ethnicity in urban areas.  Read More >>

The Inner City: A Handbook for Renewal

The Inner City: A Handbook for Renewal

Author: Roger L. Kemp
ISBN: 9780786410156
Format: Hardback
$171.60

This handbook provides an overview of the rebuilding of America's urban areas. It examines the condition of contemporary...  Read More >>

Celebrating City Teachers: How to Make a Difference in Urban Schools

Celebrating City Teachers: How to Make a Difference...

Author: Jill Bartoli
ISBN: 9780325003795
Format: Paperback
$72.60

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Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment

Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the...

Author: Martin Melosi
ISBN: 9780822957669
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity in London and New York

The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity...

Author: N. Macdonald
ISBN: 9780333781913
Format: Paperback
$56.00

This book is a contribution to our understanding of the graffiti subculture. Using insights from ethnographic research...  Read More >>

The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity in London and New York

The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity...

Author: N. Macdonald
ISBN: 9780333781906
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This book is explores graffiti subculture. Using insights from ethnographic research conducted in London and New...  Read More >>

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and...

Author: Peter Carstens
ISBN: 9780821413784
Format: Paperback
$79.07

After the 1925 discovery of diamonds in the semi-desert of the northwest coast of South Africa, De Beers Consolidated...  Read More >>

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and...

Author: Peter Carstens
ISBN: 9780821413777
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Community, Crime and Disorder: Safety and Regeneration in Urban Neighbourhoods

Community, Crime and Disorder: Safety and Regeneration...

Author: L. Hancock
ISBN: 9780333761496
Format: Hardback
$196.00

This book fills a number of gaps in the 'community and crime' literature, makes important theoretical contributions,...  Read More >>

In the City: Learning the Soft

In the City: Learning the Soft

Author: C. Figorito
ISBN: 9780823959181
Format: Hardback
$52.67

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