Urban communities books

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Caring as Tenacity: Stories of Urban School Survival

Caring as Tenacity: Stories of Urban School Survival...

Author: Mary Anne Pitman (University of Plymouth) ,  Debbie Zorn
ISBN: 9781572732117
Format: Paperback
$29.00

Six stories describe tenacious relationships within various urban school support programs, including the related...  Read More >>

Housing: Who Decides?

Housing: Who Decides?

Author: P. King ,  M. Oxley
ISBN: 9781349413546
Format: Paperback
$169.00

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

The Essential William H. Whyte

The Essential William H. Whyte

Author: Albert LaFarge ,  William H. Whyte
ISBN: 9780823220267
Format: Paperback
$69.95

The Essential Wiliam H. Whyte offers the core writings of an observer of the postwar American scene. Included are...  Read More >>

Urban and Regional Governance in the Asia Pacific Region

Urban and Regional Governance in the Asia Pacific Region...

Author: John Friedmann (Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9780888651778
Format: Paperback
$116.03

This work explores the challenges to urban and regional governance posed by the emergence of mega-urban regions...  Read More >>

The New American City Faces Its Regional Future: A Cleveland Perspective

The New American City Faces Its Regional Future: A Cleveland...

Author: David C. Sweet ,  Kathryn Wertheim Hexter
ISBN: 9780821412787
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The New American City Faces Its Regional Future captures the dynamic thinking concerned with Cleveland and its surrounding...  Read More >>

The Essential William H. Whyte

The Essential William H. Whyte

Author: Albert LaFarge ,  William H. Whyte
ISBN: 9780823220250
Format: Hardback
$167.99

The Essential Wiliam H. Whyte offers the core writings of an observer of the postwar American scene. Included are...  Read More >>

Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader

Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader...

Author: Setha M. Low
ISBN: 9780813527192
Format: Hardback
$155.76

Theorizing the City presents twelve cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place.  Read More >>

City Against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American Metropolis

City Against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American...

Author: Joseph Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780275964061
Format: Hardback
$110.00

As suburbs draw more businesses and residents, they produce new forms of art and cultural events which longtime...  Read More >>

Africa's Urban Past

Africa's Urban Past

Author: David Anderson ,  R.J.A.R. Rathbone
ISBN: 9780325002217
Format: Hardback
$237.60

This survey reveals a remarkable depth of urbanization in African history.  Read More >>

Constructions of Urban Space

Constructions of Urban Space

Author: Ray Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780762305407
Format: Hardback
$273.95

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Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies

Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing...

Author: James O. Wheeler ,  Yuko Aoyama
ISBN: 9780415924429
Format: Paperback
$118.67

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

Teacher Education and Urban Education: The Move from the Traditional to the Pragmatic

Teacher Education and Urban Education: The Move from...

Author: Barry Kanpol
ISBN: 9781572732902
Format: Paperback
$74.91

Collectively, and across ideological variances, a Department of Education, located at Penn State-Harrisburg came...  Read More >>

Teacher Education and Urban Education: The Move from the Traditional to the Pragmatic

Teacher Education and Urban Education: The Move from...

Author: Barry Kanpol
ISBN: 9781572732896
Format: Hardback
$152.66

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Urban Space and Representation

Urban Space and Representation

Author: Maria Balshaw ,  Liam Kennedy
ISBN: 9780745313443
Format: Paperback
$71.28

An innovative and interdisciplinary collection of new work on the forms and meanings of the modern city in literary,...  Read More >>

Urban Space and Representation

Urban Space and Representation

Author: Maria Balshaw ,  Liam Kennedy
ISBN: 9780745313498
Format: Hardback
$179.52

An innovative and interdisciplinary collection of new work on the forms and meanings of the modern city in literary,...  Read More >>

Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?

Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?

Author: Peter Marcuse (Columbia University) ,  Ronald Van Kempen (University of Utrecht)
ISBN: 9780631212904
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This text provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global...  Read More >>

Environmental Planning for Site Development: A Manual for Sustainable Local Planning and Design

Environmental Planning for Site Development: A Manual...

Author: Anne Beer ,  Cathy Higgins
ISBN: 9780419244608
Format: Paperback
$123.00

The book emphasises the man/nature interface and explains how nature limits and controls what can happen on every...  Read More >>

Performance Monitoring of Micro-Contracts for the Procurement of Urban Infrastructure

Performance Monitoring of Micro-Contracts for the Procurement...

Author: M Sohail
ISBN: 9780906055700
Format: Paperback
$12.81

This document presents the findings from Project R6857 Performance Monitoring of Infrastructure Procurement for...  Read More >>

The New Urban Sociology

The New Urban Sociology

Author: Mark Gottdiener ,  Ray Hutchison
ISBN: 9780072891805
Format: Hardback
$298.66

Presents urban sociology and urban studies programs, including discussions of related topics and case study material....  Read More >>

Urban Poverty in Africa: From understanding to alleviation

Urban Poverty in Africa: From understanding to alleviation...

Author: Sue Jones ,  Nici Nelson
ISBN: 9781853394744
Format: Paperback
$46.45

This book looks at the urban poverty debate and brings together contributions from academics, practitioners and...  Read More >>

Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille

Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in...

Author: Daniel Lord Smail
ISBN: 9780801436260
Format: Hardback
$151.80

How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities?...  Read More >>

Migrants and Health in Urban China

Migrants and Health in Urban China

Author: Bettina Gransow ,  Zhou Daming
ISBN: 9783643109125
Format: Paperback
$131.87

The double-edged policy pursued by the Chinese government of allowing rural-to-urban migrants to contribute economically...  Read More >>

Policing Urban Poverty

Policing Urban Poverty

Author: C. Crowther ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9781349411436
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Policing Urban Poverty demonstrates that, since the nineteenth century, a core task of the police has been crime...  Read More >>

Policing Urban Poverty

Policing Urban Poverty

Author: Chris Crowther ,  Jo Campling
ISBN: 9780333748589
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Policing Urban Poverty demonstrates that, since the nineteenth century, a core task of the police has been crime...  Read More >>

Kids at the Door Revisited

Kids at the Door Revisited

Author: Bob Holman
ISBN: 9781898924586
Format: Paperback
$68.51

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