Urban communities books

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Solar Air Systems - Built Examples

Solar Air Systems - Built Examples

Author: Robert Hastings
ISBN: 9781873936856
Format: Paperback
$116.00

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British Planning: 50 Years of Urban and Regional Planning

British Planning: 50 Years of Urban and Regional Planning...

Author: J. Barry Cullingworth
ISBN: 9780485006049
Format: Paperback
$89.95

The post-war planning acts heralded a new planning era in which land use became to comprehensive control. Fifty...  Read More >>

Neighborhood Recovery: Reinvestment Policy for the New Hometown

Neighborhood Recovery: Reinvestment Policy for the New...

Author: John Kromer
ISBN: 9780813527178
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930

Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space...

Author: Peter C. Baldwin
ISBN: 9780814250266
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Examines the change in America's city streets from chaotic places with pedestrians, peddlers and vehicles, to modern...  Read More >>

The Collaborative City: Opportunities and Struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities

The Collaborative City: Opportunities and Struggles...

Author: John Betancur ,  Douglas Gills
ISBN: 9780815335603
Format: Hardback
$232.00

This text examines joint efforts by Latinos and African-Americans to confront problems faced by populations of both...  Read More >>

Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods: Achievements, Opportunities, and Limits

Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods: Achievements, Opportunities,...

Author: W. (William) Dennis Keating ,  Norman Krumholz
ISBN: 9780761906926
Format: Paperback
$198.00

This book reports on progress in the fight against the ingrained poverty and social problems of many of the USA′s...  Read More >>

Hot Twins: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America

Hot Twins: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities...

Author: Peter M. Wolf
ISBN: 9780813526966
Format: Hardback
$63.36

Is about the national relocation of one million Americans a year.  Read More >>

Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction...

Author: Iain Borden ,  Barbara Penner
ISBN: 9780415172530
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This text brings together essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.  Read More >>

Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction...

Author: Iain Borden ,  Barbara Penner
ISBN: 9780415172523
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This text brings together essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.  Read More >>

Geo-Informationssysteme: Ein Studien- und Arbeitsbuch

Geo-Informationssysteme: Ein Studien- und Arbeitsbuch...

Author: W. Linder
ISBN: 9783540652762
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Der Titel bietet in seiner Kombination aus Text, Software und Übungsbeispielen eine ideale Grundlage für das (Selbst)studium....  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Michael R. Greenberg
ISBN: 9780813527123
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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

Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930–1945

Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture...

Author: Leo Ou-fan Lee
ISBN: 9780674805514
Format: Paperback
$120.95

Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban...  Read More >>

New Paths to Urbanisation in China: Seeking More Balanced Patterns

New Paths to Urbanisation in China: Seeking More Balanced...

Author: Yu Zhu
ISBN: 9781560726814
Format: Hardback
$155.76

The accelerating pace of world urbanisation has been one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930

Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space...

Author: Peter C. Baldwin
ISBN: 9780814208243
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan’s Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, Second Edition

Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan’s Waterfront from the...

Author: Ann L. Buttenwieser
ISBN: 9780815628019
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A history of Manhattan from the 17th century to the present. The second edition of this text includes two additional...  Read More >>

The Transition of China's Urban Development: From Plan-Controlled to Market-Led

The Transition of China's Urban Development: From Plan-Controlled...

Author: Jieming Zhu
ISBN: 9780275964276
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Examines urban development in China and the fledgling property market that has sprung from China's economy in transition....  Read More >>

The American City: Civic Culture in Sociohistorical Perspective

The American City: Civic Culture in Sociohistorical...

Author: Daniel Monti (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781557869180
Format: Paperback
$105.95

Does America have a sense of community and a vital civic culture? Are disparate groups capable of uniting as a single...  Read More >>

Building Family Literacy in an Urban Community

Building Family Literacy in an Urban Community

Author: Ruth D. Handel
ISBN: 9780807738948
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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

Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago

Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago...

Author: Lealan Jones
ISBN: 9780613084994
Format: Undefined
$74.45

The award-winning creators of National Public Radio's Ghetto Life 101 and Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse...  Read More >>

Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of New Urban Culture in China, 1930-45

Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of New Urban Culture...

Author: Leo Ou-fan Lee
ISBN: 9780674805507
Format: Hardback
$188.76

"This text explores the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity which was once intrinsically Chinese and...  Read More >>

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores,...

Author: Ray Oldenburg
ISBN: 9781569246818
Format: Paperback
$46.20

The Great Good Place argues that third places - where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home,...  Read More >>

The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood

The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American...

Author: Louis Rosen
ISBN: 9781566632744
Format: Paperback
$30.95

A powerful and moving story of the racial transformation of an American neighborhood, told in memoir and oral narrative....  Read More >>

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