Urban communities books

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The English Urban Landscape

The English Urban Landscape

Author: Philip Waller (Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Merton College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781280446276
Format: Electronic book text
$226.22

A volume on the history of the English urban environment that will appeal to both general readers and academic specialists....  Read More >>

Columbus, Ohio: A Personal Geography

Columbus, Ohio: A Personal Geography

Author: Henry L. Hunker
ISBN: 9780814208571
Format: Hardback
$102.83

An account of post-War Columbus, from the perspective of a professional geographer and long-term resident of the...  Read More >>

Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape

Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape...

Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick ,  Mark LaGory
ISBN: 9780415923712
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This book focuses on issues of health in today's cities. By arguing that `place matters' in relation to the population's...  Read More >>

Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe

Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe

Author: Christopher R. Friedrichs
ISBN: 9780415229852
Format: Hardback
$168.00

Takes a comparative approach to the nature of conflict and conflict resolution in early modern communities throughout...  Read More >>

Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XV: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge

Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XV: People of...

Author: Ezra Mendelsohn (Professor of Jewish History, Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
ISBN: 9780195134681
Format: Hardback
$145.95

Like others in the series, this book presents current scholarship in the form of a symposium, essays, and book reviews...  Read More >>

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-40

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-40

Author: Max Page
ISBN: 9780226644684
Format: Hardback
$100.32

Argues that early-20th-century cities were dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding that became the...  Read More >>

Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth-Century America

Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs: Social...

Author: M. Colvin ,  M Colvin
ISBN: 9780312221287
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The very definition of punishment in America has been subject to a variety of changes, and has served as the basis...  Read More >>

Open Moral Communities

Open Moral Communities

Author: Seymour J. Mandelbaum
ISBN: 9780262133654
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian...  Read More >>

City-Region 2020: Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Environment

City-Region 2020: Integrated Planning for a Sustainable...

Author: Joe Ravetz
ISBN: 9781853836060
Format: Paperback
$84.00

Offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the Manchester city-region....  Read More >>

The Public Place: Citizen Participation in the Neighbourhood and the City

The Public Place: Citizen Participation in the Neighbourhood...

Author: Dimitrios Roussopoulos
ISBN: 9781551641560
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"Community newspapers, community radio stations, citizen assemblies--all forums of public debate being re-vitalized...  Read More >>

City-Region 2020: Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Environment

City-Region 2020: Integrated Planning for a Sustainable...

Author: Joe Ravetz
ISBN: 9781853836077
Format: Hardback
$216.00

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Bleakness and Light: Inner City Transition in Hillbrow, Johannesburg

Bleakness and Light: Inner City Transition in Hillbrow,...

Author: Alan Morris
ISBN: 9781868143337
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles

Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles

Author: Lawrence D. Bobo ,  Melvin L. Oliver
ISBN: 9780871541291
Format: Paperback
$145.20

This book cuts through the powerful mythology surrounding Los Angeles to reveal the causes of inequality in a city...  Read More >>

The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis

The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change...

Author: Barry Bluestone ,  Mary Huff Stevenson
ISBN: 9780871541253
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s...  Read More >>

The Consumer Revolution in Urban China

The Consumer Revolution in Urban China

Author: Deborah S Davis
ISBN: 9780520216402
Format: Paperback
$60.95

In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture...  Read More >>

Africa's Urban Past

Africa's Urban Past

Author: David M. Anderson ,  R.J.A.R. Rathbone
ISBN: 9780852557617
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Urbanization has been an important feature of Africa's history for over 2000 years.  Read More >>

Gendering the City: Women, Boundaries, and Visions of Urban Life

Gendering the City: Women, Boundaries, and Visions of...

Author: Kristine B. Miranne ,  Alma H. Young
ISBN: 9780847694518
Format: Paperback
$60.95

This volume challenges the imagery of cities by looking through a gendered lens at how women utilise urban space....  Read More >>

Gendering the City: Women's Boundaries and Visions of Urban Life

Gendering the City: Women's Boundaries and Visions of...

Author: Kristine B. Miranne ,  A. Young
ISBN: 9780847694501
Format: Hardback
$282.48

This volume challenges the imagery of cities by looking through a gendered lens at how women utilise urban space....  Read More >>

Analyzing Crime Patterns: Frontiers of Practice

Analyzing Crime Patterns: Frontiers of Practice

Author: Victor Goldsmith ,  Philip G. McGuire
ISBN: 9780761919414
Format: Paperback
$198.00

This volume shows how state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS), used to display patterns of crime...  Read More >>

Analyzing Crime Patterns: Frontiers of Practice

Analyzing Crime Patterns: Frontiers of Practice

Author: Victor Goldsmith ,  Philip G. McGuire
ISBN: 9780761919407
Format: Hardback
$314.00

This volume shows how state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS), used to display patterns of crime...  Read More >>

The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges, 1950-2000

The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and...

Author: Lloyd Rodwin ,  Bishwapriya Sanyal
ISBN: 9780882851655
Format: Paperback
$90.99

In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment...  Read More >>

Readings in Urban Economics: Issues and Public Policy

Readings in Urban Economics: Issues and Public Policy...

Author: Robert W. Wassmer (California State University at Sacramento)
ISBN: 9780631215875
Format: Hardback
$278.95

* Uses popular press articles, reviews of applied economics literature, and regression-based empirical studies to...  Read More >>

The Cultures of Cities

The Cultures of Cities

Author: Sharon Zukin
ISBN: 9780631222484
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - reshape urban places and conflicts...  Read More >>

Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth-century Beirut

Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth-century Beirut...

Author: Leila Tarazi Fawaz
ISBN: 9781583485286
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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