Urban communities books

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Sozialhilfebezug und soziale Ungleichheit. Dimensionen neuer Armut?

Sozialhilfebezug und soziale Ungleichheit. Dimensionen...

Author: Thorsten Sommer
ISBN: 9783898210300
Format: Paperback
$123.94

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School Leadership in Times of Urban Reform

School Leadership in Times of Urban Reform

Author: Marilyn Bizar ,  Rebecca Barr
ISBN: 9780805824513
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Examines schools in Chicago, where the largest experiment in site-based management & accountability is being enacted....  Read More >>

When Corporations Leave Town: The Costs and Benefits of Metropolitan Job Sprawl

When Corporations Leave Town: The Costs and Benefits...

Author: Joseph J. Persky ,  Wim Wiewel
ISBN: 9780814329085
Format: Paperback
$60.59

An examination of the benefits and consequences to cities when companies relocate to the suburbs. Theoretic models...  Read More >>

When Corporations Leave Town: The Costs and Benefits of Metropolian Job Sprawl

When Corporations Leave Town: The Costs and Benefits...

Author: Joseph J. Persky ,  Wim Wiewel
ISBN: 9780814329078
Format: Hardback
$118.67

An examination of the benefits and consequences to cities when companies relocate to the suburbs. Theoretic models...  Read More >>

Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico

Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico...

Author: Bill Weinberg
ISBN: 9781859847190
Format: Hardback
$76.56

The new Zapatistas in Chiapas has served as a catalyst for revolutionary indigenous movements across Mexico. Pioneering...  Read More >>

From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an...

Author: John F. Bauman (Univ. of Southern Maine) ,  Roger Biles (Professor Emeritus, Illinois State University)
ISBN: 9780271020136
Format: Paperback
$67.99

The twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded...  Read More >>

The Cultural Economy of Cities: Essays on the Geography of Image-Producing Industries

The Cultural Economy of Cities: Essays on the Geography...

Author: Allen J. Scott
ISBN: 9780761954552
Format: Paperback
$139.79

Culture is big business. It is at the root of many urban regeneration schemes throughout the world. It is also one...  Read More >>

Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor

Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor

Author: Eli Ginzberg
ISBN: 9780300082326
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Academic health centres (AHCs) played a key role in the USA's advances in medicine, but they have largely ignored...  Read More >>

The Cultural Economy of Cities: Essays on the Geography of Image-Producing Industries

The Cultural Economy of Cities: Essays on the Geography...

Author: Allen J. Scott
ISBN: 9780761954545
Format: Hardback
$467.00

Culture is big business. It is at the root of many urban regeneration schemes throughout the world, yet the economy...  Read More >>

A City Reframed: Managing Warsaw in the 1990's

A City Reframed: Managing Warsaw in the 1990's

Author: Barbara Czarniawska
ISBN: 9789058230652
Format: Hardback
$106.00

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Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta

Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta...

Author: Robert Bullard ,  Glenn S. Johnson
ISBN: 9781559637909
Format: Paperback
$73.92

"A serious but often overlooked impact of the random, unplanned growth commonly known as sprawl is its effect on...  Read More >>

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream

Author: Nabeel Abraham ,  Andrew Shryock
ISBN: 9780814328125
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Detroit is home to one of the largest and most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East. This collection...  Read More >>

Mothering Inner-city Children: The Early School Years

Mothering Inner-city Children: The Early School Years...

Author: Katherine Brown Rosier
ISBN: 9780813527963
Format: Paperback
$155.76

Most research has treated indigent African American families as a homogenous group and has ignored the routing practices...  Read More >>

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs

Author: Janet Rothenberg Pack ,  Janet Rothenberg Pack
ISBN: 9780815730750
Format: Paperback
$51.65

Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2000...  Read More >>

Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban-regional Change in Pacific Asia

Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban-regional...

Author: Yue-man Yeung
ISBN: 9780824823269
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Globalization, along with globalism, continues its unrelenting and accelerating march as it draws more countries,...  Read More >>

Learning, Innovation and Urban Evolution

Learning, Innovation and Urban Evolution

Author: David F. Batten ,  Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia
ISBN: 9780792385776
Format: Hardback
$509.52

In the global information society, innovation is a highly pervasive process that influences all facets of human...  Read More >>

Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban-regional Change in Pacific Asia

Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban-regional...

Author: Yue-man Yeung
ISBN: 9780824822378
Format: Hardback
$161.04

Globalization, along with globalism, continues its march as it draws more countries, cities, and people closer into...  Read More >>

Death and Disease in the Ancient City

Death and Disease in the Ancient City

Author: Valerie M. Hope ,  Eireann Marshall
ISBN: 9780415214278
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This innovative volume draws on recent research in archaeology, ancient history and the history of medicine to discuss...  Read More >>

Housing: Who Decides?

Housing: Who Decides?

Author: P. King ,  M. Oxley
ISBN: 9780333760079
Format: Hardback
$224.00

Housing: Who Decides ? consists of a debate between a political theorist and an economist on decision-making in...  Read More >>

Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City

Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability:...

Author: Keith Pezzoli ,  John Friedman
ISBN: 9780262661140
Format: Paperback
$105.60

The heart of the book is the story of what happened when residents of Mexico City's Ajusco settlements fought relocation...  Read More >>

Main Street Renewal: A Handbook for Public Officials and Citizens

Main Street Renewal: A Handbook for Public Officials...

Author: Roger L. Kemp
ISBN: 9780786408122
Format: Hardback
$171.60

During the 1990s many people have come to regard degraded town centres as a blight. This handbook addresses the...  Read More >>

Reflecting realities: Participants' perspectives on integrated communities and sustainable development

Reflecting realities: Participants' perspectives on...

Author: Jean Anastacio (Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London) ,  Lorraine Hart (The Environment Trust)
ISBN: 9781861342706
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Reflecting realities explores participants' perspectives on participation structures; capacity building and the...  Read More >>

Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia

Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and...

Author: Abidin Kusno
ISBN: 9780415236157
Format: Paperback
$98.00

This book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations...  Read More >>

Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia

Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and...

Author: Abidin Kusno
ISBN: 9780415236140
Format: Hardback
$435.60

This book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations...  Read More >>

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