Urban communities books

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Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective Community Control

Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective...

Author: Robert J. Bursik, Jr ,  Harold G. Grasmick
ISBN: 9780669246322
Format: Hardback
$139.95

This book is an excellent resource in examining the influence that community control can have on crime.  Read More >>

The Emerging City: Myth and Reality

The Emerging City: Myth and Reality

Author: Scott Greer ,  Janet Abu-Lughod
ISBN: 9780765804327
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland

An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain...

Author: David Turnock
ISBN: 9781859284506
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Real Places: Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape

Real Places: Unconventional Guide to America's Generic...

Author: Grady Clay
ISBN: 9780226109497
Format: Paperback
$72.60

"A study of the American landscape in constructed, imaginative sites. Clay explores the fascination of ""Fall Color...  Read More >>

October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature

October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature...

Author: Carlo Rotella
ISBN: 9780520211445
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. Chicago was becoming...  Read More >>

Cities of Difference

Cities of Difference

Author: Ruth Fincher ,  Jane M. Jacobs
ISBN: 9781572303102
Format: Paperback
$107.00

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Cities of Difference

Cities of Difference

Author: Ruth Fincher ,  Jane M. Jacobs
ISBN: 9781572303119
Format: Hardback
$184.80

A new urban geography text that reflects both the current state of the field and our cities.  Read More >>

Changing Gender Relations in Southern Africa: Issues of Urban Life

Changing Gender Relations in Southern Africa: Issues...

Author: Anita Larsson
ISBN: 9789991131214
Format: Paperback
$113.39

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Urban Affairs and Urban Policy: The Selected Essays of Anthony Downs Volume Two

Urban Affairs and Urban Policy: The Selected Essays...

Author: Anthony Downs
ISBN: 9781858987347
Format: Hardback
$275.50

This volume contains articles on urban economics, metropolitan and regional planning, real-estate economics and...  Read More >>

City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens

City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens...

Author: J.W. Roberts
ISBN: 9780415167789
Format: Paperback
$64.00

In this second edition, including an updated index and bibliography, J W Roberts explores the main features of Athenian...  Read More >>

City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens

City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens...

Author: J.W. Roberts
ISBN: 9780415167772
Format: Hardback
$196.00

In this second edition, including an updated index and bibliography, J W Roberts explores the main features of Athenian...  Read More >>

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago...

Author: Arnold R. Hirsch
ISBN: 9780226342443
Format: Paperback
$59.40

"This text argues that, in the post-depression years, Chicago was a ""pioneer in developing concepts and devices""...  Read More >>

Urban Europe 1500-1700

Urban Europe 1500-1700

Author: Alexander Cowan
ISBN: 9780340719817
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Examining the nature and diversity of urban life during the 16th and 17th centuries, a period of considerable economic,...  Read More >>

The Latin American City 2nd Edition

The Latin American City 2nd Edition

Author: Alan Gilbert
ISBN: 9781899365227
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries: An International Approach to Local Problems

Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries: An International...

Author: Edmundo Werna ,  Trudy Harpham
ISBN: 9781853834554
Format: Paperback
$69.95

With the growth of cities and towns throughout the developing world have come significant health problems. The Healthy...  Read More >>

Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas

Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas

Author: Paul Chevigny
ISBN: 9781565841833
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A study of the use of violence by police forces in Latin America and the United States as well as in the Caribbean....  Read More >>

The Church in the Medieval Town

The Church in the Medieval Town

Author: T.R. Slater ,  Gervase Rosser
ISBN: 9781840142136
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The church permeated the life of medieval towns, and was the inspiration for the towns most important building....  Read More >>

Town Origins and Development in Early England, c.400-950 A.D.

Town Origins and Development in Early England, c.400-950...

Author: Daniel Russo
ISBN: 9780313300790
Format: Hardback
$131.00

This study sheds new light on the development of towns in early England from late Roman to late Anglo-Saxon times....  Read More >>

Urban Segregation and the Welfare State: Inequality and Exclusion in Western Cities

Urban Segregation and the Welfare State: Inequality...

Author: Sako Musterd ,  Wim Ostendorf
ISBN: 9780415170598
Format: Hardback
$389.00

This book offers a uniquely international perspective on the central debates concerning the social composition of...  Read More >>

Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids

Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids

Author: Donna Gaines
ISBN: 9780226278728
Format: Paperback
$46.95

"A collection of portraits of ""rock and roll kids"", and analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism....  Read More >>

Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions

Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental...

Author: Sarah Creighton ,  Robert Gottlieb
ISBN: 9780262531511
Format: Paperback
$89.76

The author was project manager of Tufts CLEAN!, a programme whose mission was to reduce Tufts University's environmental...  Read More >>

Metropolitan Planning in Britain: A Comparative Study

Metropolitan Planning in Britain: A Comparative Study...

Author: Peter Roberts ,  Kevin Thomas
ISBN: 9780117023611
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This book is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for...  Read More >>

Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, Experiences and Responses

Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, Experiences...

Author: Judith Allen ,  Goran Cars
ISBN: 9780117023727
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York and Boston

Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Mona Domosh
ISBN: 9780300074918
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Why do cities look the way they do? In this new book, Mona Domosh seeks to answer this question by comparing the...  Read More >>

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