Urban communities books

This volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant...  Read More >>

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

The papers in this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what...  Read More >>

This set collects the most significant writings on the city from 1898 to 1938. Dealing primarily with North America...  Read More >>

A study of teachers' work in urban schools in a period of intense school reform, as teachers and schools coped with...  Read More >>

A study of teachers' work in urban schools in a period of intense school reform, as teachers and schools coped with...  Read More >>

The authors assess the problems of American cities' shrinking economic base, rising minority populations and decreasing...  Read More >>

The process by which a group of small colonial settlements in an untamed wilderness grew into a highly industrialized...  Read More >>

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Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city only if it has been...  Read More >>

An historical analysis of how large social interventions, such as public housing programs, which were implemented...  Read More >>

An historical analysis of how large social interventions, such as public housing programs, which were implemented...  Read More >>

What is spirituality and how does it manifest itself in the lives of urban middle-class women? Does acceptance of...  Read More >>

A devastating account of inadequate attempts to provide economic equality for the urban poor.  Read More >>

Large cities in both North and South are caught in the contradictory logics of globalization and localization. This...  Read More >>

Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.Yet tourist brochures still play...  Read More >>

This volume deals with the city as a corporate entity and contains chapters on urban governmental structures, government...  Read More >>

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 contributors assess the state of the art of the urban economic development field. Commentaries on ea ch chapter...  Read More >>

A devastating account of inadequate attempts to provide economic equality for the urban poor.  Read More >>

Drawing upon surveys conducted in Rondonia, a predominately populist frontier, and Southern Para, a contested corporatist...  Read More >>

This dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the...  Read More >>

An introduction to current processes of urban restructuring, geographies of division and contemporary conditions...  Read More >>

Concerned with the degradation of environment and community, this book discusses the historical, cultural, social,...  Read More >>

Presents a selection of Nishiyama Matsunosuke's writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction...  Read More >>