Urban communities books

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Seeking Community In Global City: Guatemalans & Salvadorans In Los Angeles

Seeking Community In Global City: Guatemalans & Salvadorans...

Author: Nora Hamilton ,  Norma Stoltz Chinchilla
ISBN: 9781566398671
Format: Hardback
$191.40

Driven by the pressures of poverty and civil strife at home, large numbers of Central Americans came to the Los...  Read More >>

The Urban West: The American West

The Urban West: The American West

Author: Gordon Morris Bakken ,  Brenda Farrington
ISBN: 9780815334606
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The essays in this volume display the vast variety of urban experiences in the West. The authors examine the role...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain 3 Volume Hardback Set

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain 3 Volume Hardback...

Author: D. M. Palliser (University of Leicester) ,  Peter Clark (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780521801553
Format: Mixed media product
$1317.04

Mobilising the combined expertise of nearly ninety historians, archaeologists and geographers from Britain, continental...  Read More >>

City Fights: Debates on Urban Sustainability

City Fights: Debates on Urban Sustainability

Author: Susannah Hagan ,  Mark Hewitt
ISBN: 9781902916170
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Within the concept of the 'sustainable city' nothing is fixed, mapped or agreed upon. To some, the term encompasses...  Read More >>

Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives

Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives

Author: Roger Webster
ISBN: 9781571817914
Format: Paperback
$36.99

During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars...  Read More >>

Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Ghana

Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial...

Author: John Parker
ISBN: 9780852556436
Format: Paperback
$39.95

A social history of a West African urban community during colonialism.  Read More >>

Rebuilding Community: Policy and Practice in Urban Regeneration

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

Author: J. Pierson ,  Joan Smith
ISBN: 9781349411115
Format: Paperback
$169.00

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

How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not...

Author: Alex Marshall
ISBN: 9780292752405
Format: Paperback
$43.95

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New York Glory: Religions in the City

New York Glory: Religions in the City

Author: Tony Carnes ,  Anna Karpathakis
ISBN: 9780814716014
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Gathers together for the first time the best research on religion in contemporary New York City  Read More >>

The Regional City

The Regional City

Author: Peter Calthorpe ,  William Fulton
ISBN: 9781559637848
Format: Paperback
$145.00

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Central Park East and Its Graduates: ""Learning by Heart""

Central Park East and Its Graduates: ""Learning by Heart""...

Author: David Bensman ,  Patricia A. Wasley
ISBN: 9780807739921
Format: Paperback
$57.95

In 1974, Central Park East Elementary School in East Harlem opened its doors with a mission to provide inner-city...  Read More >>

Solarstadt: Konzepte - Technologien - Projekte

Solarstadt: Konzepte - Technologien - Projekte

Author: Norbert Fisch ,  Bruno Möws
ISBN: 9783834816665
Format: Hardback
$158.37

Das Buch beschreibt Entwicklung, Bau und Erprobung der ersten größeren Solaranlagen für Wohngebäude und der solaren...  Read More >>

New York Glory: Religions in the City

New York Glory: Religions in the City

Author: Tony Carnes ,  Anna Karpathakis
ISBN: 9780814716007
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Is New York a post-secular city? From Italian Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, and Russian Jews to Zen Buddhists, Rastafarians,...  Read More >>

The Regional City

The Regional City

Author: Peter Calthorpe ,  William Fulton
ISBN: 9781559637831
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Body and City: Histories of Urban Public Health

Body and City: Histories of Urban Public Health

Author: Sally Sheard ,  Helen Power
ISBN: 9781840146752
Format: Hardback
$284.00

A survey of research in the cultural history of urban public health, this study links the approaches of demographic...  Read More >>

Contemporary British Poetry and the City

Contemporary British Poetry and the City

Author: Peter Barry ,  Kim Latham
ISBN: 9780719055942
Format: Paperback
$38.99

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Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities

Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities

Author: Alice M. O'Connor ,  Chris Tilly
ISBN: 9780871546500
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Despite today's booming economy, secure work and upward mobility remain out of reach for many central-city residents....  Read More >>

Communication and Social Action Research

Communication and Social Action Research

Author: Joseph J. Pilotta
ISBN: 9781572733060
Format: Paperback
$38.00

This volume details a methodology and strategies and skills for teaching community organizations and developing...  Read More >>

Handbook of Urban Studies

Handbook of Urban Studies

Author: Ronan Paddison ,  Bill Lever
ISBN: 9780803976955
Format: Hardback
$390.00

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Global City Regions: Their Emerging Forms

Global City Regions: Their Emerging Forms

Author: Gary Hack ,  Roger Simmonds
ISBN: 9780419232407
Format: Hardback
$308.00

A comparative study, based on funded research of 13 city regions across three continents, this text looks at changes...  Read More >>

Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapter in Organizational Ethnography

Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapter in Organizational...

Author: Michael Rosen
ISBN: 9789058231017
Format: Hardback
$210.00

This collection represents Michael Rosen's encounter with an 'ethnography of the center'-the study of cultural orders...  Read More >>

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