Urban communities books

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Inner City Kids: Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community

Inner City Kids: Adolescents Confront Life and Violence...

Author: Alice Mcintyre
ISBN: 9780814756355
Format: Hardback
$193.00

This work explores how a group of African-American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican and Haitian adolescents respond to living...  Read More >>

Japanese Urban System

Japanese Urban System

Author: Yuji Murayama
ISBN: 9780792366003
Format: Hardback
$382.80

Explains Japanese regional structure and associated dynamism in terms of urban systems. By focusing on urban systems...  Read More >>

Water for Urban Areas: Challengers and Perspectives

Water for Urban Areas: Challengers and Perspectives...

Author: A Biswas ,  J Uitto
ISBN: 9789280810240
Format: Paperback
$38.95

In this text, experts from four continents discuss various issues of urban water management. Using case studies...  Read More >>

Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes

Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes

Author: Amy L. Young
ISBN: 9780817310301
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The essays in this volume explore urban archaeology and the impact of towns and cities on the US's southern landscape....  Read More >>

Everyday Lives in the Global City: The Delinking of Locale and Milieu

Everyday Lives in the Global City: The Delinking of...

Author: Jörg Dürrschmidt
ISBN: 9781841420110
Format: Hardback
$308.00

An investigation of the global city environment as a feature of everyday life. Rejecting notions of globalisation...  Read More >>

Re-Presenting the Metropolis: Architecture, Urban Experience and Social Life in London 1800–1840

Re-Presenting the Metropolis: Architecture, Urban Experience...

Author: Dana Arnold
ISBN: 9781840142327
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Women and the City: Visibility and Voice in Urban Space

Women and the City: Visibility and Voice in Urban Space...

Author: J. Darke ,  Sue Ledwith
ISBN: 9781349655724
Format: Paperback
$169.00

Using case-studies from Oxford to Beijing and Chicago, Women and the City shows women constructing their lives in...  Read More >>

Women and the City: Visibility and Voice in Urban Space

Women and the City: Visibility and Voice in Urban Space...

Author: J. Darke ,  Sue Ledwith
ISBN: 9780333774854
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Using case-studies from Oxford to Beijing and Chicago, Women and the City shows women constructing their lives in...  Read More >>

Honky

Honky

Author: Dalton Conley
ISBN: 9780520215863
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A memoir about coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American...  Read More >>

Urban Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town, 1700–1900

Urban Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town,...

Author: Jon Stobart ,  Alastair Owens
ISBN: 9780754600817
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Challenging Images: Housing Estates, Stigma and Regeneration

Challenging Images: Housing Estates, Stigma and Regeneration...

Author: Jo Dean ,  Annette Hastings
ISBN: 9781861342898
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Is area and community regeneration enough to challenge the negative perceptions of a stigmatized housing estate?...  Read More >>

Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings and Plans

Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings...

Author: Timothy Moss ,  Simon Guy
ISBN: 9781853836893
Format: Paperback
$69.95

This text examines the mounting pressures for change on the infrastructure of cities - in particular the utilities...  Read More >>

Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings and Plans

Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings...

Author: Timothy Moss ,  Simon Guy
ISBN: 9781853836947
Format: Hardback
$199.00

This text examines the mounting pressures for change on the infrastructure of cities - in particular the utilities...  Read More >>

A Companion to the City

A Companion to the City

Author: Gary Bridge (University of Bristol) ,  Sophie Watson (The Open University)
ISBN: 9780631210528
Format: Hardback
$308.95

A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates,...  Read More >>

Urban Sprawl: A Reference Handbook

Urban Sprawl: A Reference Handbook

Author: Donald C Williams, PH.D.
ISBN: 9781280725210
Format: Electronic book text
$174.24

Offers various perspectives on the causes and problems associated with urban sprawl, and describes the work of advocacy...  Read More >>

Nonprofits in Urban America

Nonprofits in Urban America

Author: Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore ,  Richard C. Hula
ISBN: 9781567203769
Format: Hardback
$140.00

They study the role of nonprofits in local governing coalitions, the potential of nonprofits to replace social welfare...  Read More >>

Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization

Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization

Author: Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780631184249
Format: Paperback
$80.95

* Brings a concrete, historically informed discussion of globalization and transnationalism applied to urban studies....  Read More >>

Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000

Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's...

Author: Joel Schwartz
ISBN: 9780253337719
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Urban Sprawl: A Reference Handbook

Urban Sprawl: A Reference Handbook

Author: Donald C Williams
ISBN: 9786610725212
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

Offers various perspectives on the causes and problems associated with urban sprawl, and describes the work of advocacy...  Read More >>

Advertising and the European City: Historical Perspectives

Advertising and the European City: Historical Perspectives...

Author: Clemens Wischermann ,  Elliott Shore
ISBN: 9781840142372
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Historians are only just beginning to replace outmoded theories of advertising manipulation with more sophisticated...  Read More >>

The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture

The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture...

Author: Howard P. Chudacoff
ISBN: 9780691070551
Format: Paperback
$89.99

Describes a certain world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a population...  Read More >>

Study Guide

Study Guide

Author: F. Philip Rice
ISBN: 9780130185693
Format: Paperback
$122.50

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