Urban communities books

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Fragments of the European City

Fragments of the European City

Author: Stephen Barber
ISBN: 9780948462665
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Exploring the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, especially Berlin, this book examines the...  Read More >>

A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940

A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women...

Author: Elizabeth Roberts (University of Lancaster, UK)
ISBN: 9780631147541
Format: Paperback
$80.95

A Woman's Place is based upon Elizabeth Roberts's interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster...  Read More >>

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic

Author: A Torres
ISBN: 9781566392808
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Offers a political-economic reassessment of New York's African American and Puerto Rican communities.  Read More >>

Urban Society In Roman Italy

Urban Society In Roman Italy

Author: Tim J. Cornell ,  Kathryn Lomas
ISBN: 9781857280333
Format: Hardback
$168.00

A set of essay contributions, including theoretical studies of urban development and research on specific sites...  Read More >>

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic: African American and Puerto Ricans in the New York Political Economy

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic: African American and...

Author: Andres Torres
ISBN: 9781566392792
Format: Hardback
$199.32

Offers a political-economic reassessment of New York's African American and Puerto Rican communities.  Read More >>

Make a Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790-1965

Make a Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern...

Author: Kathryn Grover
ISBN: 9780815626275
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This work reconstructs, from their own writings, the lives of African Americans in the small community of Geneva,...  Read More >>

Emergency Doctor

Emergency Doctor

Author: Edward Ziegler ,  Dr. Lewis Goldfrank
ISBN: 9780345471635
Format: Paperback
$50.16

A collection of true-life emergency room tales is gathered from the experiences of the doctors at Bellevue Hospital...  Read More >>

Make a Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790-1965

Make a Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern...

Author: Kathryn Grover
ISBN: 9780815626268
Format: Hardback
$118.80

This work reconstructs, from their own writings, the lives of African Americans in the small community of Geneva,...  Read More >>

Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave

Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave...

Author: Min Zhou ,  Alejandro Portes
ISBN: 9781566393379
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Examines how an ethnic enclave works to direct its members into American society, while at the same time shielding...  Read More >>

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb and the Model Town of Pullman

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: Great Chicago...

Author: Carl Smith
ISBN: 9780226764160
Format: Hardback
$125.40

Exploring the imaginative dimensions of three events (the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb and the making...  Read More >>

The People's Home?: Social Rented Housing in Europe and America

The People's Home?: Social Rented Housing in Europe...

Author: Michael Harloe (Essex University)
ISBN: 9780631186427
Format: Paperback
$62.95

Examines the development of social rented housing over the years in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark...  Read More >>

On The Edge: A History Of Poor Black Children And Their American Dreams

On The Edge: A History Of Poor Black Children And Their...

Author: Carl H Nightingale
ISBN: 9780465052196
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Filled with fascinating insights into the collective emotional life of inner-city kids, this book is also a highly...  Read More >>

Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia

Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia

Author: Ira M. Robinson
ISBN: 9780774805483
Format: Paperback
$121.31

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Einführung in die Stadtplanung: Band 1: Definitionen und Bestimmungsfaktoren

Einführung in die Stadtplanung: Band 1: Definitionen...

Author: Klaus Müller-Ibold ,  Klaus Muller-Ibold
ISBN: 9783834816320
Format: Paperback
$118.77

In einer fächerübergreifenden Zusammenschau führt das dreibändige Werk in die Grundfragen und -themen der Stadtplanung...  Read More >>

The Stadium and the City

The Stadium and the City

Author: John Bale ,  Olof Moen
ISBN: 9781853311109
Format: Hardback
$388.12

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Public Participation in Urban Development, the European Experience

Public Participation in Urban Development, the European...

Author: James Barlow
ISBN: 9780853746447
Format: Paperback
$46.45

This book compares public participation in a selection of European counties. Using the UK, France, and Sweden as...  Read More >>

Modernity, Space, and Power: American City in Discourse and Practice

Modernity, Space, and Power: American City in Discourse...

Author: Katherine Kia Tehranian
ISBN: 9781881303831
Format: Paperback
$35.00

The central argument of this volume is that modernity, space, power and the urban discourse are intimately linked....  Read More >>

Modernity, Space, and Power: American City in Discourse and Practice

Modernity, Space, and Power: American City in Discourse...

Author: Katherine Kia Tehranian
ISBN: 9781881303824
Format: Hardback
$73.00

The central argument of this volume is that modernity, space, power and the urban discourse are intimately linked....  Read More >>

The Transformation of a Peasant Economy: Townspeople and Villagers in the Lutterworth Area, 1500–1700

The Transformation of a Peasant Economy: Townspeople...

Author: John Goodacre ,  John Goodacre
ISBN: 9781859280737
Format: Hardback
$79.99

"This text offers an evalution of the way in which the economy of the area around Lutterworth changed from its basically...  Read More >>

Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City

Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern...

Author: Susan Ossman
ISBN: 9780520084032
Format: Paperback
$55.95

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European Religion in the Age of Great Cities: 1830-1930

European Religion in the Age of Great Cities: 1830-1930...

Author: Hugh McLeod
ISBN: 9780415095228
Format: Hardback
$238.00

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Urban Policy in Practice

Urban Policy in Practice

Author: Tim Blackman
ISBN: 9780415093002
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Offers a practical and critical guide to urban policy in contemporary Britain, drawing on case studies from housing,...  Read More >>

A Scientist in the City

A Scientist in the City

Author: James Trefil
ISBN: 9780385261098
Format: Paperback
$31.99

Explores the ways in which science affects urban life, examines how the environment is shaped by human understanding...  Read More >>

New Visions for Metropolitan America

New Visions for Metropolitan America

Author: Anthony Downs
ISBN: 9780815719250
Format: Paperback
$42.99

In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to...  Read More >>

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