Urban communities books

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Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield

Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield

Author: Larry Bennett
ISBN: 9780815321132
Format: Paperback
$224.00

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Race In The Hood: Conflict and Violence among Urban Youth

Race In The Hood: Conflict and Violence among Urban...

Author: Howard Pinderhughes
ISBN: 9780816629190
Format: Paperback
$44.95

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Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo

Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and...

Author: Homa Hoodfar
ISBN: 9780520208254
Format: Paperback
$55.95

An ethnography that provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of Arab Muslim families. Focusing on the impact...  Read More >>

She Say, He Say: Urban Girls Write Their Lives

She Say, He Say: Urban Girls Write Their Lives

Author: Brett Elizabeth Blake ,  William Ayers
ISBN: 9780791434802
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Examines public and private writings of low-income, urban, pre-adolescent girls, illuminating ways that girls' voices...  Read More >>

Paper or Plastic?: Energy, Environment, and Consumerism in Sweden and America

Paper or Plastic?: Energy, Environment, and Consumerism...

Author: Rita J. Erickson
ISBN: 9780275957667
Format: Hardback
$110.00

This study compares household energy use, environmental awareness, and consumerism among residents of small towns...  Read More >>

The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy

The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy...

Author: Alejandro Portes (The Johns Hopkins University) ,  Carlos Dore-Cabral (Respaldo Rafael Augusto Sanchez No. 8)
ISBN: 9780801855191
Format: Paperback
$64.99

However, the differences in political structure and in the nature of citizenship mean that social and economic policy...  Read More >>

An African Niche Economy: Farming to Feed Ibadan

An African Niche Economy: Farming to Feed Ibadan

Author: Jane I. Guyer
ISBN: 9780748610334
Format: Paperback
$80.21

This book studies a Yoruba community in the hinterland of Ibadan over twenty years.  Read More >>

Environment and Community Empowerment

Environment and Community Empowerment

Author: Dan A. Chekki
ISBN: 9780762302727
Format: Hardback
$248.95

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Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World: The Shanty Towns of Buenos Aires

Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World: The...

Author: P. Lloyd-Sherlock
ISBN: 9781349400317
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This book takes a more comprehensive approach, combining analysis of social security issues in all developing countries...  Read More >>

Cities and Towns

Cities and Towns

Author: Fran Sammis
ISBN: 9780761405405
Format: Hardback
$60.17

Text, maps, and activities help the reader explore various aspects of cities and towns.  Read More >>

The Ancient Mesopotamian City

The Ancient Mesopotamian City

Author: Marc van de Mieroop
ISBN: 9780198150626
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Urban history starts in Mesopotamia. In this volume Marc Van De Mieroop examines the evolution of the very earliest...  Read More >>

Politics and Preservation: A policy history of the built heritage 1882-1996

Politics and Preservation: A policy history of the built...

Author: John Delafons ,  J. Delafons
ISBN: 9780419224006
Format: Paperback
$134.00

This book traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process, and...  Read More >>

Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon

Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization...

Author: John Browder ,  Brian Godfrey
ISBN: 9780231106559
Format: Paperback
$82.95

"This is the first comprehensive analysis of urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on comparative household...  Read More >>

Politics and Preservation: A policy history of the built heritage 1882-1996

Politics and Preservation: A policy history of the built...

Author: John Delafons ,  J. Delafons
ISBN: 9780419223900
Format: Hardback
$350.00

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Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation

Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social...

Author: Nick Jewson ,  Susanne MacGregor
ISBN: 9780415146043
Format: Paperback
$78.00

This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist...  Read More >>

Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation

Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social...

Author: Nick Jewson ,  Susanne MacGregor
ISBN: 9780415146036
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist...  Read More >>

Urban Amazons: Lesbian Feminism and Beyond in the Gender, Sexuality and Identity Battles of London

Urban Amazons: Lesbian Feminism and Beyond in the Gender,...

Author: Sarah F. Green
ISBN: 9780333669747
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This study is about lesbian feminists in London in the late 1980s. The book goes through their public and personal...  Read More >>

Towns and Cities: Competing for survival

Towns and Cities: Competing for survival

Author: Angus McIntosh ,  Angus Mcintosh
ISBN: 9780419227403
Format: Paperback
$168.00

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Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century

Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and...

Author: Kevin Mumford (Professor of History, University of Illinois)
ISBN: 9780231104937
Format: Paperback
$52.95

From black female prostitution to homosexual brothels, from taxi dance halls to speakeasies, Mumford reconstructs...  Read More >>

Contested communities: Experiences, struggles, policies

Contested communities: Experiences, struggles, policies...

Author: Paul Hoggett (Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Languages)
ISBN: 9781861340368
Format: Paperback
$57.99

'Community' is a much used yet little understood term. Through a set of detailed case studies of communities in...  Read More >>

Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield

Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield

Author: Larry Bennett
ISBN: 9780815321125
Format: Hardback
$232.00

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Farewell to Peasant China: Rural Urbanization and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century

Farewell to Peasant China: Rural Urbanization and Social...

Author: Gregory Eliyu Guldin
ISBN: 9780765600899
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This first broad-scale anthropological investigation of Chinese urbanization captures both the dynamic essence of...  Read More >>

Farewell to Peasant China: Rural Urbanization and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century

Farewell to Peasant China: Rural Urbanization and Social...

Author: Gregory Eliyu Guldin
ISBN: 9780765601834
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Chinese urbanization, including the daily life, migration strategies, and life choices of villagers and townspeople,...  Read More >>

Population, Poverty and Politics in Middle East Cities

Population, Poverty and Politics in Middle East Cities...

Author: Michael E. Bonine
ISBN: 9780813014746
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Contributors present case studies of cities in Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Yemen, Sudan, and Iran, in...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Affordable Housing

The Architecture of Affordable Housing

Author: Sam Davis
ISBN: 9780520208858
Format: Paperback
$64.95

This text is about the design of dignified, affordable housing for those not served by the private sector, and how...  Read More >>

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