Urban communities books

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Cities After Socialism: Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies

Cities After Socialism: Urban and Regional Change and...

Author: Gregory Andrusz (Middlesex University)
ISBN: 9786611840594
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

The dramatic collapse of state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the emergence of new political,...  Read More >>

New Urban Frontier, The: Gentrification and the Revanchist City

New Urban Frontier, The: Gentrification and the Revanchist...

Author: Neil Smith (University College London)
ISBN: 9781280236747
Format: Electronic book text
$644.16

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the...  Read More >>

Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City

Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City

Author: Jane M Jacobs, PhD
ISBN: 9781280320811
Format: Electronic book text
$670.56

Edge of Empire forms the basis for understanding imperialism over space and time, and is a recognition of the unruly...  Read More >>

City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism

City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian...

Author: Jon Caulfield ,  Linda Peake (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781282002944
Format: Electronic book text
$205.92

Focusing on a series of pivotal issues confronting Canadian cities and city-dwellers today, this volume address...  Read More >>

Compact City, The: A Sustainable Urban Form?

Compact City, The: A Sustainable Urban Form?

Author: M Jenks ,  E Burton
ISBN: 9781280048821
Format: Electronic book text
$688.91

There is a widespread consensus that progress towards sustainable development is essential. Human activity cannot...  Read More >>

Cities and Structural Adjustment

Cities and Structural Adjustment

Author: Harris Nigel
ISBN: 9781280144776
Format: Electronic book text
$462.00

This work addresses the challenge faced in the management of major cities throughout the world as they adjust to...  Read More >>

Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in the City

Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in the...

Author: Iain Borden ,  Joe Kerr
ISBN: 9781280256462
Format: Electronic book text
$253.28

This text explores the vitality and complexity of cities and architecture, presenting intriguingly unexpected perspectives...  Read More >>

Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City

Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American...

Author: Clay McShane
ISBN: 9780231083911
Format: Paperback
$59.95

McShane examines the uniquely American relation between auto-mobility and urbanization. Deftly combining urban and...  Read More >>

Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS-risk Denial Among Disadvantaged Women

Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS-risk Denial Among Disadvantaged...

Author: E. J. Sobo
ISBN: 9780812215533
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In an effort to explain why AIDS education efforts failed to stop clients from practicing unsafe sex, E.J. Sobo...  Read More >>

Oxcart Catholicism on Fifth Avenue: The Impact of the Puerto Rican Migration Upon the Archdiocese of New York

Oxcart Catholicism on Fifth Avenue: The Impact of the...

Author: Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens
ISBN: 9780268015107
Format: Paperback
$66.00

This is a study of the popular religiosity of the Puerto Rican people who have moved into the highly organised and...  Read More >>

The Naturalistic Inner-city Novel in America: Encounters with the Fat Man

The Naturalistic Inner-city Novel in America: Encounters...

Author: James R. Giles
ISBN: 9781570030468
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Giles (English, Northern Illinois U.) surveys the early examples of inner-city naturalism, then examines in detail...  Read More >>

Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities  in Shanghai, 1853–1937

Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and...

Author: Bryna Goodman
ISBN: 9780520089174
Format: Hardback
$104.95

This text explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and...  Read More >>

The Making of Citizens: Cities of Peasants Revisited

The Making of Citizens: Cities of Peasants Revisited...

Author: Bryan Roberts
ISBN: 9780340604786
Format: Paperback
$79.99

"Originally published as ""Cities of Peasants"", this account of urbanization in the developing world has been updated....  Read More >>

Before the Deluge

Before the Deluge

Author: Otto Friedrich
ISBN: 9780060926793
Format: Paperback
$35.95

A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s....  Read More >>

The European City

The European City

Author: Leonardo Benevolo (Universities of Florence, Venice and Palermo)
ISBN: 9780631198932
Format: Paperback
$80.95

A history of the European city from the early Middle Ages until the present, this book is also an account of the...  Read More >>

Treating Anger, Anxiety, And Depression In Children And Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective

Treating Anger, Anxiety, And Depression In Children...

Author: Jerry Wilde
ISBN: 9781560324829
Format: Paperback
$56.00

Applies a cognitive-behavioural perspective to anger, anxiety and depression when working with young people in both...  Read More >>

Profits and Politics in Paradise: Development of Hilton Head Island

Profits and Politics in Paradise: Development of Hilton...

Author: Michael N. Danielson ,  Patricia R. F Danielson
ISBN: 9781570030390
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Danielson's case study illustrates the impact of growth on th economic and political fortunes of a geographic area,...  Read More >>

Treating Anger, Anxiety, And Depression In Children And Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective

Treating Anger, Anxiety, And Depression In Children...

Author: Jerry Wilde
ISBN: 9781560324812
Format: Hardback
$119.00

Applies a cognitive-behavioural perspective to anger, anxiety and depression when working with young people in both...  Read More >>

If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass

If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of...

Author: Peter T. Davis
ISBN: 9780471110743
Format: Hardback
$85.80

When the acclaimed author of Where Is Nicaragua? went in search of America's growing underclass--the persistent...  Read More >>

Bombay

Bombay

Author: Sujata Patel ,  Alice Thorner
ISBN: 9780195636888
Format: Hardback
$67.50

This book identifies the key characteristics of the city of Bombay and explores the processes which have led to...  Read More >>

Bombay

Bombay

Author: Sujata Patel ,  Alice Thorner
ISBN: 9780195636895
Format: Hardback
$67.50

This book focuses on Bombay's cultural life, the essence of which is constituted by Bombay's openness to winds blowing...  Read More >>

Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the Struggle for Democracy in Chile

Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the...

Author: Philip D. Oxhorn
ISBN: 9780271014364
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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The English Town: A History of Urban Life

The English Town: A History of Urban Life

Author: Mark Girouard
ISBN: 9780300063219
Format: Paperback
$118.80

By looking at England's cathedral towns, Regency spas and industrial cities, and at their market squares, docks,...  Read More >>

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