Urban communities books

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North American Cities and the Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

North American Cities and the Global Economy: Challenges...

Author: Peter Karl Kresl ,  Gary Gappert
ISBN: 9780803970953
Format: Paperback
$268.00

Throughout North America cities are strategically planning their own economic development activities and establishing...  Read More >>

North American Cities and the Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

North American Cities and the Global Economy: Challenges...

Author: Peter Karl Kresl ,  Gary Gappert
ISBN: 9780803970946
Format: Hardback
$371.00

Throughout North America cities are strategically planning their own economic development activities and establishing...  Read More >>

Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990

Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990...

Author: David R. Contosta
ISBN: 9780814205815
Format: Paperback
$89.63

This text tells the story of Chestnut Hill, an area that has undergone considerable change over the years. It describes...  Read More >>

Urban Poverty in Affluent Nations

Urban Poverty in Affluent Nations

Author: Dan A. Chekki
ISBN: 9781559388849
Format: Hardback
$151.99

Part of the series on research in community sociology that deals with such topics as theoretical and global perspectives...  Read More >>

Social Complexity and the Development of Towns in Iberia: From the Copper Age to the Second Century AD

Social Complexity and the Development of Towns in Iberia:...

Author: Barry Cunliffe ,  S.J. Keay
ISBN: 9780197261576
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This collection of essays presents a first survey of the archaeological and historical evidence for the development...  Read More >>

History and Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town

History and Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town

Author: Abdul Sheriff ,  Abdul Sheriff
ISBN: 9780821411193
Format: Hardback
$89.63

Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms. Should it be fossilized for the...  Read More >>

Urban Survival: The World of Working-class Women

Urban Survival: The World of Working-class Women

Author: Ruth Sidel
ISBN: 9780803292390
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Features eight working-class women of different ages and races who speak with pride and independence about their...  Read More >>

Politics and Culture in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case of Industrial Architecture

Politics and Culture in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case...

Author: Matthew Jefferies (University of Manchester, Manchester)
ISBN: 9780854969456
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Explores the relationship between politics and culture in turn-of-the-century Germany through the unusual medium...  Read More >>

Bread, Bricks and Belief: Communities in Charge of Their Future

Bread, Bricks and Belief: Communities in Charge of Their...

Author: Mary Lean
ISBN: 9781565490468
Format: Paperback
$22.95

Mary Lean shows how ethics and spirituality have made a significant impact on community development in post-industrial...  Read More >>

Round My Way: Authority and Double-consciousness in Three Urban High School Writers (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture)

Round My Way: Authority and Double-consciousness in...

Author: Goldblatt
ISBN: 9780822938798
Format: Hardback
$138.43

Aimed at a wide range of educators and general readers concerned with urban education and writing instruction, this...  Read More >>

Australian Cities

Australian Cities

Author: Clive Forster
ISBN: 9780195535655
Format: Paperback
$29.50

An examination of the changing nature of Australia's major cities from a geographical perspective. It explains how...  Read More >>

Contested Terrain: Power, Politics, and Participation in Suburbia

Contested Terrain: Power, Politics, and Participation...

Author: Mark L. Silver ,  Martin Melkonian
ISBN: 9780313296000
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The suburban political sphere is truly a contested terrain, and this volume effectively shows the links between...  Read More >>

Bhubaneswar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City

Bhubaneswar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City

Author: Ravi Kalia
ISBN: 9780809318766
Format: Hardback
$118.80

When Orissa was constituted as the eleventh province of British India in 1936, the need for a new capital was immediately...  Read More >>

Partnership Agencies In British Urban Policy

Partnership Agencies In British Urban Policy

Author: Nichola Bailey ,  Kelvin MacDonald
ISBN: 9781857280708
Format: Paperback
$98.00

An introduction to the many and varied partnership schemes - local and central government, private and public sectors,...  Read More >>

The Little Platoons: Sub-Local Governments in Modern History

The Little Platoons: Sub-Local Governments in Modern...

Author: George Liebmann
ISBN: 9780275951788
Format: Hardback
$110.00

The Little Platoons examines sub-local government—the small-scale structures of civil society that lie between the...  Read More >>

A Shrinking World?

A Shrinking World?

Author: John Allen ,  Chris Hamnett
ISBN: 9780198741862
Format: Hardback
$100.00

This text explores different aspects of the spatial upheavals that lie behind the latest wave of globalization based...  Read More >>

Urbanization in History

Urbanization in History

Author: A.M. Van Der Woude ,  Jan de Vries
ISBN: 9780198289586
Format: Paperback
$110.00

A contribution to the history of urbanization covering four principal areas of contemporary research: urban hierarchies...  Read More >>

Race, Culture, and the City: A Pedagogy for Black Urban Struggle

Race, Culture, and the City: A Pedagogy for Black Urban...

Author: Stephen Nathan Haymes
ISBN: 9780791423844
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This book proposes a pedagogy of black urban struggle and solidarity.  Read More >>

Urban Health in Developing Countries: Progress and Prospects

Urban Health in Developing Countries: Progress and Prospects...

Author: Marcel Tanner ,  Trudy Harpham
ISBN: 9781853832819
Format: Paperback
$69.95

The impact of urbanization on the health of citizens in developing countries has received increasing attention recently....  Read More >>

Listen for a Lonesome Drum: A York State Chronicle

Listen for a Lonesome Drum: A York State Chronicle

Author: Carl Carmer
ISBN: 9780815602613
Format: Paperback
$52.67

In this work, noted New York State author Carl Carmer describes the social life and customs of his native New York....  Read More >>

Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County since World War II

Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange...

Author: Rob Kling ,  Spencer C. Olin
ISBN: 9780520201606
Format: Paperback
$55.95

"Neither a city nor a traditional suburb, Orange County, California represents a striking example of a new kind...  Read More >>

We Lived with Dignity: Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam, 1900-40

We Lived with Dignity: Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam,...

Author: Selma Leydesdorff ,  Frank Heny
ISBN: 9780814323380
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Based on oral history, this book explores people's experiences in daily life in the Jewish proletariat of Amsterdam....  Read More >>

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