Urban communities books

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Sustainable Housing: Principles and Practice

Sustainable Housing: Principles and Practice

Author: Brian Edwards (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark) ,  David Turrent
ISBN: 9780419246206
Format: Paperback
$140.00

Sustainable Housing seeks to bring new perspectives on residential sustainability.  Read More >>

Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States

Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in...

Author: Fred R. Harris ,  Lynn A. Curtis
ISBN: 9780742509047
Format: Paperback
$76.43

An update of the original Kerner Commission report. The authors examine how to solve the problems of minority in...  Read More >>

Municipalities and Community Participation: A Sourcebook for Capacity Building

Municipalities and Community Participation: A Sourcebook...

Author: Janelle Plummer
ISBN: 9781853837449
Format: Paperback
$96.00

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Race and Urban Space in American Culture

Race and Urban Space in American Culture

Author: Liam Kennedy
ISBN: 9781579582807
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Urban Texas: Politics and Development

Urban Texas: Politics and Development

Author: Char Miller ,  Heywood T. Sanders
ISBN: 9780890963975
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The major cities of Texas have developed through a complex web of politics, society, and economics. To describe...  Read More >>

The Chinese City in Space and Time: The Development of Urban Form in Sozhou

The Chinese City in Space and Time: The Development...

Author: Yinong Xu
ISBN: 9780824820763
Format: Hardback
$129.36

The city of Suzhou was a leading force in the development of an urban China for nearly a millennium. Suzhou lay...  Read More >>

Community Associations: The Emergence and Acceptance of a Quiet Innovation in Housing

Community Associations: The Emergence and Acceptance...

Author: Donald R. Stabile
ISBN: 9780313315718
Format: Hardback
$131.00

This book explores the issues surrounding this housing innovation and provides a history of community associations...  Read More >>

City A-Z: Urban Fragments

City A-Z: Urban Fragments

Author: Steve Pile ,  Nigel Thrift
ISBN: 9780415207287
Format: Paperback
$98.00

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City A-Z: Urban Fragments

City A-Z: Urban Fragments

Author: Steve Pile ,  Nigel Thrift
ISBN: 9780415207270
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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The City after Patrick Geddes

The City after Patrick Geddes

Author: Volker M. Welter ,  James Lawson
ISBN: 9780820446424
Format: Paperback
$155.63

The City after Patrick Geddes traces the influences of the Scottish biologist, sociologist and city designer, Sir...  Read More >>

Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies

Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing...

Author: James O. Wheeler ,  Yuko Aoyama
ISBN: 9780415924412
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Case studies of cities such as Atlanta, Phoenix, and Sunderland provide an insight into urban cyberspace and the...  Read More >>

The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy

The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy...

Author: Robert Fishman
ISBN: 9780943875965
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Martin and Sam Bass Warner, Jr, and Anne Whiston Spirn.  Read More >>

Consumption of Kuala Lumpur

Consumption of Kuala Lumpur

Author: Ziauddin Sardar (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9781282263840
Format: Electronic book text
$107.55

Kuala Lumpur is the postmodern city writ large, a city that, within the short span of a decade, has been transformed...  Read More >>

Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region

Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for...

Author: Greg Hise ,  William F. Deverell
ISBN: 9780520224155
Format: Paperback
$57.95

"""Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches"": in this book, Greg Hise and William Deverell examine the reasons it was called...  Read More >>

Towns in Decline, AD100–1600

Towns in Decline, AD100–1600

Author: Terry Slater
ISBN: 9780754600848
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Many European towns have experienced loss of population, degradation of physical structure and profound economic...  Read More >>

Race and Urban Space in Contemporary American Culture

Race and Urban Space in Contemporary American Culture...

Author: Liam Kennedy
ISBN: 9780748609529
Format: Paperback
$80.21

This innovative book looks at representations of ethnic and racial identities in relation to the development of...  Read More >>

Race and Urban Space in American Culture

Race and Urban Space in American Culture

Author: Liam Kennedy
ISBN: 9780748609697
Format: Hardback
$336.38

This innovative book looks at representations of ethnic and racial identities in relation to the development of...  Read More >>

Tourists in Historic Towns: Urban Conservation and Heritage Management

Tourists in Historic Towns: Urban Conservation and Heritage...

Author: Aylin Orbasli
ISBN: 9780419259305
Format: Paperback
$154.00

The book examines the relationship of culture, heritage, conservation and tourism development in historic towns...  Read More >>

Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life

Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management...

Author: Michael Bull
ISBN: 9781859733424
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book opens up an area of urban studies, the auditory experience of self and place.  Read More >>

Mothering Inner-City Children: The Early School Years

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

Author: Katherine Brown Rosier
ISBN: 9780813527970
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream

Author: Nabeel Abraham ,  Andrew Shryock
ISBN: 9780814328118
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000

Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000

Author: Eugene P. Moehring
ISBN: 9780874173567
Format: Paperback
$57.95

2005 is Las Vegas' centennial year. This book, updated to take account of the dramatic changes that have taken place...  Read More >>

Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life

Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management...

Author: Michael Bull
ISBN: 9781859733370
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book opens up an area of urban studies, the auditory experience of self and place.  Read More >>

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