Urban communities books

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

The study of Roman towns and cities has long been dominated by the consumer city model set out by Moses Finley...  Read More >>

Concerned with a housing estate and some of its inhabitants.  Read More >>

This study examines the RPAA, a loosely organized association of ambitious planners who hoped to guide the new urban...  Read More >>

Exploring the lessons that can be drawn from the United States' experience in providing affordable, low-cost housing,...  Read More >>

"""A visionary theme is implicitly and explicitly evoked in this book. There are many insights to be mined.""--""Imprint""""A...  Read More >>

This is a comprehensive introduction to current processes of urban restructuring, geographies of division and contemporary...  Read More >>

This book brings together some of the most recent and exciting work from within sociology and cultural studies....  Read More >>

This book brings together some of the most recent and exciting work from within sociology and cultural studies....  Read More >>

This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan...  Read More >>

The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects...  Read More >>

There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them, acknowledges Michael...  Read More >>

Nathanael West has been hailed as an apocalyptic writer, a writer on the left, and a precursor to postmodernism....  Read More >>

In this book, David L Imbroscio urges that urban political economy must move forward beyond the question of what...  Read More >>

Opens a window on the experiences of urban people living through one of Africa's most dramatic economic declines...  Read More >>

An examination of the history of town planning in the British Empire, from 1600. Looks at the transfer of British...  Read More >>

This study looks at microsimulation, a methdology aimed at building large-scale data sets on the attributes of individuals...  Read More >>

Opens a window on the experiences of urban people living through one of Africa's most dramatic economic declines...  Read More >>

This work aims to produce a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian culture in multi-racist societies....  Read More >>

This analysis of urban neighbourhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents 15 original essays by scholars...  Read More >>

The Los Angeles region is increasingly being held up as a prototype for the collective urban future of the United...  Read More >>

Discusses such topics as re-thinking city economic development, the high price of high costs, the changing industrial...  Read More >>

This ethnography, based on a five-year field study, presents a holistic view of a nearly invisible ethnic minority...  Read More >>

This analysis of urban neighbourhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents 15 original essays by scholars...  Read More >>