Urban communities books

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Leadville

Leadville

Author: Edward Platt
ISBN: 9780330392631
Format: Paperback
$31.02

A journey from White City to the Hanger Lane Gyratory along Western Avenue - the A40.  Read More >>

Uncertain Lives: Children of Hope, Teachers of Promise

Uncertain Lives: Children of Hope, Teachers of Promise...

Author: Robert V. Bullough
ISBN: 9780807740453
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Written for those who are concerned about the plight of children in America, especially future school teachers,...  Read More >>

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940

Author: Max Page
ISBN: 9780226644691
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Offering a vision of the creation of the American city, Max Page looks at the infamously transitory nature of New...  Read More >>

The King's Towns: Identity and Survival in Late Medieval English Boroughs

The King's Towns: Identity and Survival in Late Medieval...

Author: Lorraine C. Attreed
ISBN: 9780820451633
Format: Hardback
$295.42

The King's Towns is the first book to study the relationship between England's central government and four royally...  Read More >>

Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological...

Author: Stephen Graham (University of Durham) ,  Simon Marvin (University of Salford, UK)
ISBN: 9781280319044
Format: Electronic book text
$772.99

Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between...  Read More >>

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2001

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2001

Author: William G. Gale (Joseph A. Pechman Fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution, USA) ,  Janet Rothenberg Pack
ISBN: 9780815701156
Format: Paperback
$46.58

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

Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest

Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific...

Author: Carl Abbott
ISBN: 9780812236125
Format: Hardback
$125.40

Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning.  Read More >>

To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963

To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in...

Author: Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
ISBN: 9780520229204
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Traces the development of the African American community in Richmond, California, a city on the San Francisco Bay....  Read More >>

Boss Cox's Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era

Boss Cox's Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive...

Author: Zane L. Miller ,  Howard P. Chudacoff
ISBN: 9780814208618
Format: Hardback
$189.95

In the late-19th century, a new era began in American urban history characterized by an explosion of both the populations...  Read More >>

Visions of Place: The City, Neighborhoods, Suburbs and Cincinnati's Clifton, 1850-2000

Visions of Place: The City, Neighborhoods, Suburbs and...

Author: Zane L. Miller
ISBN: 9780814208595
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Clifton in Cincinnati has a reputation as an above-average place in which to live. This book treats ideas about...  Read More >>

Intercities

Intercities

Author: Stefan Hertmans ,  Paul Vincent
ISBN: 9781861890931
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Hertmans considers the issue of global identity. Looking at people and cities from the periphery, he tries to discover...  Read More >>

City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo

City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in...

Author: Teresa P. R. Caldeira
ISBN: 9780520221437
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in Sao Paulo poses essential questions about...  Read More >>

Growing Up Fast: Transitions To Early Adulthood of Inner-city Adolescent Mothers

Growing Up Fast: Transitions To Early Adulthood of Inner-city...

Author: Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater ,  Niobe Way
ISBN: 9780805837360
Format: Hardback
$120.00

At once a scholarly research monograph and an accessible glimpse into the lives of inner-city adolescents mothers,...  Read More >>

City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity

City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity

Author: Michael Peter Smith ,  Thomas Bender
ISBN: 9780765808714
Format: Paperback
$113.82

"This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or ""place"",...  Read More >>

Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body

Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and...

Author: Professor Iain Borden (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781859734889
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Presents a detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. This book looks at skateboarding history from...  Read More >>

Socially Sustainable Cities: Principles and Practices

Socially Sustainable Cities: Principles and Practices...

Author: Antoine S. Bailly ,  Philippe Brun
ISBN: 9781902282091
Format: Paperback
$26.00

Examines the components of socially sustainable urban development, considering the theoretical basis for social...  Read More >>

Urban Planning and Cultural Inclusion: Lessons from Belfast and Berlin

Urban Planning and Cultural Inclusion: Lessons from...

Author: W. Neill ,  H. Schwedler
ISBN: 9780333793688
Format: Hardback
$169.00

Cities divided by ethnic and cultural conflict need to identify, create and maintain some kind of shared identity...  Read More >>

Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment

Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built...

Author: Nezar AlSayyad
ISBN: 9780275966126
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Urban Geography: A Global Perspective

Urban Geography: A Global Perspective

Author: Michael Pacione
ISBN: 9780415191951
Format: Hardback
$712.80

A stimulating introduction to the study of towns and cities. Views urban geography from global, historical, economic,...  Read More >>

Urban Communication Systems: Neighborhoods and the Search for Community

Urban Communication Systems: Neighborhoods and the Search...

Author: Leo W. Jeffres
ISBN: 9781572734128
Format: Paperback
$65.98

This is a call for more research into urban systems in general and communication patterns in particular within geographically...  Read More >>

Suburban Nation

Suburban Nation

Author: Andres Duany ,  Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
ISBN: 9780865476066
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the New Urbanism movement, and in Suburban Nation they...  Read More >>

Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context

Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global...

Author: Mark Shiel (Sheffield Hallam University) ,  Tony Fitzmaurice (University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9780631222446
Format: Paperback
$53.95

Integrates urban sociology and film studies literature to show what can be learnt about cities from film. Provides...  Read More >>

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