Urban communities books

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Community Builders

Community Builders

Author: Gordana Rabrenovic
ISBN: 9781566394109
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Reading Berlin, 1900

Reading Berlin, 1900

Author: Peter Fritzsche
ISBN: 9780674748811
Format: Hardback
$180.84

This work looks at the ways in which the newspapers dramatized Imperial Berlin. It argues that accounts of Berlin...  Read More >>

THE SOCIOLOGY OF URBAN COMMUNITIES

THE SOCIOLOGY OF URBAN COMMUNITIES

Author: Michael Harloe
ISBN: 9781852789909
Format: Hardback
$1700.50

The Sociology of Urban Communities provides an authoritative collection of over 60 key articles by leading international...  Read More >>

The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?

The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?

Author: Elizabeth Burton ,  Mike Jenks
ISBN: 9780419213000
Format: Paperback
$210.00

This book examines the benefits and dangers of higher density urban living.  Read More >>

Restructuring Urban Schools: A Chicago Perspective

Restructuring Urban Schools: A Chicago Perspective

Author: G.Alfred Hess
ISBN: 9780807734759
Format: Paperback
$38.50

From an insider perspective, the author of this text integrates his findings with observations and conclusions....  Read More >>

Immigration and its Impact on American Cities

Immigration and its Impact on American Cities

Author: Clifford McCue ,  Raymond B. Surette
ISBN: 9780275945008
Format: Hardback
$110.00

This study extends the literature analyzing the financial impact of immigration on local governments by developing...  Read More >>

Youth, Policing and Democracy

Youth, Policing and Democracy

Author: I. Loader
ISBN: 9780333636619
Format: Paperback
$106.00

This book is concerned with the place of communication in the relations between the police and young people. Ian...  Read More >>

The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban Animal

The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban...

Author: Desmond Morris
ISBN: 9781568361048
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in...  Read More >>

The Black Churches of Brooklyn

The Black Churches of Brooklyn

Author: Clarence Taylor (CUNY)
ISBN: 9780231099813
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The black church has always played a vital role in urban US settings. This study examines the impact of the church...  Read More >>

A Tale Of Two Cities: Global Change, Local Feeling and Everday Life in the North of England

A Tale Of Two Cities: Global Change, Local Feeling and...

Author: Karen Evans ,  Penny Fraser
ISBN: 9780415138284
Format: Hardback
$252.00

In this book the authors examine the city of the future. However, instead of looking at the postmodern metropole...  Read More >>

A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization

A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization...

Author: Steven P. Dandaneau
ISBN: 9780791428788
Format: Paperback
$84.35

A cultural study of the Flint community's response to its own deindustrialization, within the framework of the state,...  Read More >>

A Space on the Side of the Road: "Cultural Poetics in an ""Other"" America"

A Space on the Side of the Road: "Cultural Poetics in...

Author: Kathleen Stewart
ISBN: 9780691011035
Format: Paperback
$82.99

In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women track a dense social imaginary...  Read More >>

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization...

Author: Richard Sennett (New York University)
ISBN: 9780393313918
Format: Paperback
$51.35

This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience....  Read More >>

Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil's Religious Arena

Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic...

Author: John Burdick
ISBN: 9780520205031
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"This study offers an explanation of why the radical Catholic church is losing, and Pentecostalism and ""umbanda""...  Read More >>

National Urban Policy: Problems and Prospects

National Urban Policy: Problems and Prospects

Author: Harold Wolman ,  Elizabeth J. Agius
ISBN: 9780814325438
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This work examines urban problems, issues and policy approaches in the United States. It questions whether President...  Read More >>

Family and Human Development Across Cultures: A View From the Other Side

Family and Human Development Across Cultures: A View...

Author: Cigdem Kagitibasi
ISBN: 9780805820775
Format: Paperback
$68.00

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Beyond the Great Wall

Beyond the Great Wall

Author: P Gaubatz
ISBN: 9780804723992
Format: Hardback
$184.80

A study of cities on China's inland frontiers from ancient times to the present day. The author explores how the...  Read More >>

Community Impact Evaluation: Principles And Practice

Community Impact Evaluation: Principles And Practice...

Author: Nathaniel Lichfield
ISBN: 9781857282382
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Family and Human Development Across Cultures: A View From the Other Side

Family and Human Development Across Cultures: A View...

Author: Cigdem Kagitibasi
ISBN: 9780805820768
Format: Hardback
$136.00

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Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America 1765-1910

Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban...

Author: Servando Ortoll ,  Silvia M. Arrom
ISBN: 9780842025805
Format: Hardback
$159.95

Intends to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era.  Read More >>

Community Impact Evaluation: Principles And Practice

Community Impact Evaluation: Principles And Practice...

Author: Nathaniel Lichfield
ISBN: 9781857282375
Format: Hardback
$294.00

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The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments

The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery...

Author: M. Christine Boyer (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780262522113
Format: Paperback
$124.08

"Describes the visual and mental models by which urban environment has been recognized, depicted and planned. This...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel...

Author: Roy Lubove
ISBN: 9780822955665
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh...  Read More >>

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

Author: John Brinckerhoff Jackson
ISBN: 9780300063974
Format: Paperback
$41.95

This work takes readers on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how surroundings reflect important...  Read More >>

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