Urban communities books

18366 books were found.

Promise of the City

Promise of the City

Author: Kian Tajbakhsh
ISBN: 9781282758827
Format: Electronic book text
$89.63

The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the...  Read More >>

Latino Metropolis

Latino Metropolis

Author: Victor M Valle
ISBN: 9781299920316
Format: Undefined
$139.92

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Sustainable Urban Growth in Peripheral Areas

Sustainable Urban Growth in Peripheral Areas

Author: Boris G Portnov ,  B. A. Portnov
ISBN: 9780080434261
Format: Paperback
$183.71

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Metro Futures: Economic Solutioins for Cities and Their Suburbs

Metro Futures: Economic Solutioins for Cities and Their...

Author: Daniel D. Luria ,  Joel Rogers
ISBN: 9780807006030
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A look at inner-city problems, focusing on solutions that recognise the link between urban and suburban well-being...  Read More >>

Las Vegas - the Social Production of an           All-american City

Las Vegas - the Social Production of an All-american...

Author: Mark Gottdiener ,  Claudia Collins
ISBN: 9781577181361
Format: Hardback
$343.07

It recognizes that in addition to being the capital of glitz, Las Vegas is home to over one million permanent residents...  Read More >>

Angewandte Landschaftsökologie: Grundlagen und Methoden

Angewandte Landschaftsökologie: Grundlagen und Methoden...

Author: R. Schneider-Sliwa ,  K. Töpfer
ISBN: 9783540659389
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Die Landschaftsökologie als Wissenschaft von der Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehung im weitesten Sinne ist als Fachbereich...  Read More >>

The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City

The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th...

Author: Robert A. Beauregard ,  Sophie Body-Gendrot
ISBN: 9780761914846
Format: Hardback
$343.20

#This text explores a variety of multidisciplinary discourses for representing the contemporary city. It considers...  Read More >>

Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader

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

Author: Setha M. Low
ISBN: 9780813527208
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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

Building Family Literacy in an Urban Community

Building Family Literacy in an Urban Community

Author: Ruth D. Handel
ISBN: 9780807738955
Format: Hardback
$124.07

In this volume, Ruth Handel offers educators and parents who work to forge authentic partnerships between home and...  Read More >>

Restoring America's Neighborhoods: How Local People Make a Difference

Restoring America's Neighborhoods: How Local People...

Author: Michael R Greenberg
ISBN: 9780813527116
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Profiles twenty-four people who live or work in blighted, crime-battered neighborhoods across the United States....  Read More >>

Las Vegas: The Social Production of an All-American City

Las Vegas: The Social Production of an All-American...

Author: Mark Gottdiener ,  Claudia Collins
ISBN: 9781577181378
Format: Paperback
$121.31

It recognizes that in addition to being the capital of glitz, Las Vegas is home to over one million permanent residents...  Read More >>

Cities in the Pacific Rim

Cities in the Pacific Rim

Author: James Berry ,  Stanley McGreal
ISBN: 9780419242802
Format: Hardback
$350.00

A review of the planning systems and property markets in these cities will appeal to academic researchers in planning,...  Read More >>

The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City

The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th...

Author: Robert A. Beauregard ,  Sophie Body-Gendrot
ISBN: 9780761914853
Format: Paperback
$268.00

Explores a variety of multidisciplinary discourses for representing the contemporary city.  Read More >>

Canadian Cities in Transition

Canadian Cities in Transition

Author: Trudi E. Bunting ,  Pierre Filion
ISBN: 9780195412888
Format: Paperback
$62.95

This volume brings together commissioned articles to provide a detailed overview of recent trends affecting Canadian...  Read More >>

Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis

Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century...

Author: Greg Hise (UNLV)
ISBN: 9780801862557
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This study explores how the professionalization of planning affected practice and how the idea of decentralization...  Read More >>

Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio

Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the Global...

Author: Ingemar Elander ,  Brendan Gleeson
ISBN: 9780415187695
Format: Paperback
$98.00

This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment. It examines these issues through...  Read More >>

Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio

Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the Global...

Author: Ingemar Elander ,  Brendan Gleeson
ISBN: 9780415187688
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment. It examines these issues through...  Read More >>

"Perspecta 30 ""Settlement Patterns""": The Yale Architectural Journal

"Perspecta 30 ""Settlement Patterns""": The Yale Architectural...

Author: Louise Harpman ,  Evan M. Supcoff
ISBN: 9780262581783
Format: Paperback
$55.44

The issue includes original documentation of notable housing projects from the 1920s and 1930s, when modernist ideas...  Read More >>

The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History

The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through...

Author: Spiro Kostof ,  Greg Castillo
ISBN: 9780500281727
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Presents a universal history of the elements of cities: streets, public spaces, urban divisions, and the borders...  Read More >>

The Global Ethnopolis: Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society

The Global Ethnopolis: Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown...

Author: M. Laguerre
ISBN: 9780333777893
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book focuses on three ethnic neighbourhoods in San Francisco: commoditized Chinatown, gentrified Japantown,...  Read More >>

Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America

Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America

Author: National Research Council ,  Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309065535
Format: Hardback
$159.59

America's cities have symbolized the nation's prosperity, dynamism, and innovation. This book addresses the condition...  Read More >>

Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context: The Potential of a Capacity Enhancement Perspective

Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context:...

Author: Melvin Delgado (Professor of Social Work and Chair of Macro Practice, Professor of Social Work and Chair of Macro Practice, Boston University School of Social Work)
ISBN: 9780195125474
Format: Paperback
$42.95

The future of social work rests on how well it can address urban issues, particularly the needs of urban communities...  Read More >>

City Works: Exploring Your Community: A Workbook

City Works: Exploring Your Community: A Workbook

Author: Adria Steinberg ,  David Stephen
ISBN: 9781565844162
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban...

Author: James Ferguson
ISBN: 9780520217027
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by...  Read More >>

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