Urban communities books

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Citizen Responsive Government

Citizen Responsive Government

Author: Terry Nichols Clark ,  Keith Hoggart
ISBN: 9780762304998
Format: Hardback
$341.95

As policy choices grow more complicated, they are harder to present to citizens - which undermines citizen legitimacy...  Read More >>

Urban Girls: Empowerment in especially difficult circumstances

Urban Girls: Empowerment in especially difficult circumstances...

Author: Gary Barker ,  Felicia Knaul
ISBN: 9781853394751
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This book offers practical approaches to improve and empower the lives of at-risk, low-income, urban-based girls...  Read More >>

Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries

Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing...

Author: Rod Burgess ,  Mike Jenks
ISBN: 9780419251309
Format: Paperback
$210.00

This book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing...  Read More >>

Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill

Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill

Author: Derek Matravers ,  Jonathan Pike
ISBN: 9780415211970
Format: Paperback
$59.00

A clear an thorough introduction to political philosophy and political thought, inttroducing the reader to major...  Read More >>

Breaking Away From Broken Windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods And The Nationwide Fight Against Crime, Grime, Fear, And Decline

Breaking Away From Broken Windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods...

Author: Ralph Taylor
ISBN: 9780813397580
Format: Paperback
$129.36

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Heavy Matter: Urban Operations Density of Challenges

Heavy Matter: Urban Operations Density of Challenges...

Author: Russell W. Glenn
ISBN: 9780833029096
Format: Paperback
$52.80

This study proposes a new way of viewing urban operations. Following an overview of density's potential influence...  Read More >>

The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought

The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics...

Author: Kian Tajbakhsh
ISBN: 9780520222786
Format: Paperback
$55.95

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In the City

In the City

Author: Christine Figorito ,  Marcus Figorito
ISBN: 9780823982639
Format: Paperback
$18.61

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Soziologische Grundbegriffe: Eine Einfuhrung Fur Soziale Berufe

Soziologische Grundbegriffe: Eine Einfuhrung Fur Soziale...

Author: Alfred Bellebaum
ISBN: 9783170166233
Format: Paperback
$73.92

In dieser Einfuhrung werden wichtige Grundbegriffe der Soziologie einzeln und in ihrem sachlichen Zusammenhang behandelt...  Read More >>

Culture of Cities: ...Under Construction

Culture of Cities: ...Under Construction

Author: Paul Moore ,  Meredith Risk
ISBN: 9780889627734
Format: Paperback
$46.45

The Culture of Cities Project is an international interdisciplinary five-year research project studying the lived...  Read More >>

Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success

Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success...

Author: Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. ,  Thomas D. Cook
ISBN: 9780226273938
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Based on over 500 interviews/case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia, this text reveals how parents...  Read More >>

Im Spiegel ihrer Lebensgeschichten. Gewaltt�tiges Verhalten Jugendlicher und Geschlechtszugeh�rigkeit

Im Spiegel ihrer Lebensgeschichten. Gewaltt�tiges Verhalten...

Author: Mirja Silkenbeumer
ISBN: 9783932602498
Format: Paperback
$123.94

"Gewaltbereite M�dchen gibt es selten. Nimmt man von ihnen Notiz, so macht sich entweder Emp�rung �ber ihr Verhalten...  Read More >>

The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands Seventh Through the Tenth Centuries

The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic...

Author: Paul Wheatley
ISBN: 9780226894287
Format: Hardback
$257.40

This work draws on two decades of wide-ranging research to show that Islamic cities are defined by function rather...  Read More >>

Globalization and Urban Change

Globalization and Urban Change

Author: Kris Olds
ISBN: 9780198233619
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"An analysis of late 20th-century globalization and urban change. Drawing on field work around the world, the author...  Read More >>

Sensing the City through Television: Urban identities in fictional drama

Sensing the City through Television: Urban identities...

Author: Peter Billingham
ISBN: 9781841500188
Format: Hardback
$74.91

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Conflict and Decision Making in Close Relationships: Love, Money and Daily Routines

Conflict and Decision Making in Close Relationships:...

Author: Erich Kirchler ,  Christa Rodler
ISBN: 9780863778117
Format: Hardback
$119.00

Love and money are important aspects of the everyday lives of couples. This book focuses on the daily routines of...  Read More >>

The Messiah Comes Tomorrow: Tales from the American Shtetl

The Messiah Comes Tomorrow: Tales from the American...

Author: Alan Lupo
ISBN: 9781558492837
Format: Hardback
$66.00

The perception of American Jews has long been that of an upper-middle-class people engaged in the professions...  Read More >>

Combating Urban Inequalities: Challenges for Managing Cities in the Developing World

Combating Urban Inequalities: Challenges for Managing...

Author: Edmundo Werna
ISBN: 9781840643473
Format: Hardback
$241.35

This study analyzes the relationship between the management and the unequal pattern of provision of urban services...  Read More >>

Fin De Millenaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life

Fin De Millenaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life...

Author: Judit Bodnar
ISBN: 9780816635849
Format: Hardback
$56.95

Considers what this central European metropolis tells us about the changing nature of urban life. With the collapse...  Read More >>

Management of Historic Centres

Management of Historic Centres

Author: Robert Pickard
ISBN: 9780419232902
Format: Paperback
$154.00

This book examines key themes for the management of historic urban centres within a representative sample of centres...  Read More >>

In the City: Learning the Soft C Sound

In the City: Learning the Soft C Sound

Author: Christine Figorito
ISBN: 9780823992317
Format: Paperback
$111.67

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Hieroglyphics of Space, The: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis

Hieroglyphics of Space, The: Reading and Experiencing...

Author: Leach Neil
ISBN: 9781280139413
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the...  Read More >>

The Chosen City

The Chosen City

Author: Nicholas Schoon
ISBN: 9781280021237
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

The Chosen City is about making urban regeneration work. It describes what has gone wrong with Britain's cities...  Read More >>

Innovative Cities

Innovative Cities

Author: James Simmie (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9781280068553
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

Innovative Cities presents a unique international comparison of innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and...  Read More >>

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