Urban communities books

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Pickup Artists: Street Basketball in America

Pickup Artists: Street Basketball in America

Author: Chad Millman ,  Lars Anderson
ISBN: 9781859842430
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A historiography of basketball.  Read More >>

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities...

Author: Janet L. Abu-Lughod
ISBN: 9780816633357
Format: Hardback
$217.80

"New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- for all their differences, they are quintessentially American cities. They...  Read More >>

Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943

Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism...

Author: Jared Day
ISBN: 9780231114035
Format: Paperback
$62.95

In the first comprehensive investigation of the role tenement landlords played in shaping the urban landscapes of...  Read More >>

Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth beyond the Metropolis

Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth beyond the Metropolis...

Author: Ann Markusen ,  Yong-Sook Lee
ISBN: 9780816633746
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Analyzes and compares the rapid growth of medium-sized cities. Over the past thirty years, transnational investment,...  Read More >>

Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle...

Author: Vanessa R. Schwartz
ISBN: 9780520221680
Format: Paperback
$52.95

"Drawing on a range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the...  Read More >>

The Rise of the City, 1878-98

The Rise of the City, 1878-98

Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. ,  Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh (Associate Professor of History, Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati, USA)
ISBN: 9780814250389
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Beginning in the rural South and West, and concluding with the triumph of urban civilization, Schlesinger chronicles...  Read More >>

Cincinnati in 1840: The Social and Functional Organization of an Urban Community During the Pre-Civil War Period

Cincinnati in 1840: The Social and Functional Organization...

Author: Walter Stix Glazer ,  Carl Abbott (Professor of History, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780814250303
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This study focuses on the community of Cincinnati in 1840 to explain the city's success but also to suggest some...  Read More >>

Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States

Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States...

Author: Edward J. Blakely ,  Mary Gail Snyder
ISBN: 9780815710035
Format: Paperback
$45.99

"Gated communities are a new """"hot button"""" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from...  Read More >>

Newark's Little Italy: The Vanished First Ward

Newark's Little Italy: The Vanished First Ward

Author: Michael Immerso
ISBN: 9780813527574
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Traces the history of the First Ward from the arrival of the first Italian in the 1870s until 1953 when the district...  Read More >>

The Rise of the City, 1878-98

The Rise of the City, 1878-98

Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. ,  Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh (Associate Professor of History, Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati, USA)
ISBN: 9780814208359
Format: Hardback
$176.75

Beginning in the rural South and West, and concluding with the triumph of urban civilization, Schlesinger chronicles...  Read More >>

Community Design: A Team Approach to Dynamic Community Systems

Community Design: A Team Approach to Dynamic Community...

Author: W . Arthur Mehrhoff
ISBN: 9780761905974
Format: Paperback
$198.00

This book focuses on the author′s experience in Minnesota where a design team of architects, planners, economic...  Read More >>

Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism

Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism

Author: Alan Kidd ,  David Nicholls
ISBN: 9780719056765
Format: Paperback
$71.15

These essays have implications for the future of social and cultural history. The construction of cultural meaning...  Read More >>

Community Design: A Team Approach to Dynamic Community Systems

Community Design: A Team Approach to Dynamic Community...

Author: W . Arthur Mehrhoff
ISBN: 9780761905967
Format: Hardback
$314.00

This book focuses on the author′s experience in Minnesota where a design team of architects, planners, economic...  Read More >>

Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs, and Gender

Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs, and...

Author: John M. M. Hagedorn ,  Meda Chesney-Lind
ISBN: 9780941702485
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Female Gangs in America begins by reprinting classic, and hard to find, essays that chronicle the earliest research...  Read More >>

Metropolitan Government and Governance

Metropolitan Government and Governance

Author: Stephens ,  Wikstrom
ISBN: 9780195112986
Format: Paperback
$99.95

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Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890-1943

Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism...

Author: Jared Day
ISBN: 9780231114028
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth beyond the Metropolis

Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth beyond the Metropolis...

Author: Ann Markusen ,  Yong-Sook Lee
ISBN: 9780816633739
Format: Hardback
$197.87

"Over the past thirty years, transnational investment, trade, and government policies have encouraged the decentralization...  Read More >>

Signs of Hope in the City: Ministries of Community Renewal

Signs of Hope in the City: Ministries of Community Renewal...

Author: Robert D Carle ,  Contributor Louis A DeCaro, Jr
ISBN: 9780817013240
Format: Paperback
$47.52

This newly revised and updated edition provides additional resources and essays from some of New York's most effective...  Read More >>

Cities for Children: Children's Rights, Poverty and Urban Management

Cities for Children: Children's Rights, Poverty and...

Author: Sheridan Bartlett ,  Roger Hart
ISBN: 9781853834707
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban...  Read More >>

Cities for Children: Children's Rights, Poverty and Urban Management

Cities for Children: Children's Rights, Poverty and...

Author: Sheridan Bartlett ,  Roger Hart
ISBN: 9781853834714
Format: Hardback
$438.24

Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban...  Read More >>

Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta

Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta...

Author: Harvey K. Newman
ISBN: 9780817309619
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Newman shows how the cultural tradition of hospitality has encouraged the growth of Atlanta's convention and tourist...  Read More >>

Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function

Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function

Author: Richard Harris ,  Peter Larkham
ISBN: 9780419220503
Format: Hardback
$266.00

The subject of suburbanization is attracting growing interest across several disciplines. The book lists historical...  Read More >>

American Cities and Technology: Wilderness to Wired city

American Cities and Technology: Wilderness to Wired...

Author: Gerrylynn K. Roberts ,  Philip Steadman
ISBN: 9780415200837
Format: Hardback
$322.00

Provides a study of technological advances in relation to cities, ranging from 1790, when the first US census reported...  Read More >>

Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona

Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New...

Author: Donald McNeill
ISBN: 9780415170628
Format: Hardback
$389.00

This work journeys through the cityscapes of one of the favourite holiday destinations of the contemporary European...  Read More >>

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