Urban communities books

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Looking for a City in America: Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go

Looking for a City in America: Down These Mean Streets...

Author: Andre Corboz ,  Dennis Keeley
ISBN: 9780879239350
Format: Paperback
$47.39

In his richly perceptive essay, Corboz takes to task previous European analyses of the American city which, he suggests,...  Read More >>

Gender in Urban Research

Gender in Urban Research

Author: Judith A. Garber ,  Robyne S. Turner
ISBN: 9780803957251
Format: Paperback
$179.39

Gendered analysis of familiar urban topics provides new insights for our understanding of urban studies, not only...  Read More >>

Urban America in Transformation: Perspectives on Urban Policy and Development

Urban America in Transformation: Perspectives on Urban...

Author: Benjamin S. Kleinberg
ISBN: 9780803952966
Format: Paperback
$198.00

The urban landscape in the United States has changed drastically over the past 50 years, and along with massive...  Read More >>

Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem

Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem...

Author: Peter Preston ,  Paul Simpson-Housley
ISBN: 9780415106672
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Arguing that classic geographical descriptions of the city fail to accommodate the crucial aspect of human life,...  Read More >>

Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism

Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status...

Author: James Jennings ,  James Jennings
ISBN: 9780275949341
Format: Paperback
$48.00

This volume of essays by scholars and activists focuses on the political and social relations between blacks, Latinos,...  Read More >>

The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring

The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global...

Author: Paul Ong ,  Edna Bonacich
ISBN: 9781566392181
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Focuses on Los Angeles as a critical 'world city' in the developing global economy and also as the center of new...  Read More >>

Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism

Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status...

Author: James Jennings ,  Luis Fuentes
ISBN: 9780275947460
Format: Hardback
$120.00

This volume of essays by scholars and activists focuses on the political and social relations between blacks, Latinos,...  Read More >>

The Urban Experience: A People-Environment Perspective

The Urban Experience: A People-Environment Perspective...

Author: F.E. Brown ,  S.J. Neary
ISBN: 9780419201601
Format: Hardback
$406.00

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The Informal City

The Informal City

Author: Michel S. Laguerre
ISBN: 9780333617670
Format: Hardback
$224.00

In this book, Michel S.Laguerre argues that there exists an informal city located just beneath and in the interstices...  Read More >>

Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America

Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America...

Author: James Jennings
ISBN: 9780275949846
Format: Paperback
$66.99

This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban...  Read More >>

Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America

Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America...

Author: James Jennings
ISBN: 9780275949532
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban...  Read More >>

The Informal City

The Informal City

Author: Michel S. Laguerre ,  Michel S Laguerre (University of California, USA)
ISBN: 9780312122096
Format: Hardback
$199.00

In this book, Michel S.Laguerre argues that there exists an informal city located just beneath and in the interstices...  Read More >>

Urban Process and Power

Urban Process and Power

Author: Peter Ambrose
ISBN: 9780415008518
Format: Paperback
$90.00

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Venice and Amsterdam

Venice and Amsterdam

Author: Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780745613246
Format: Paperback
$36.95

A work of comparative history which examines the elites or ruling groups of two major cities in early modern Europe....  Read More >>

Dismantling Apartheid: A South African Town in Transition

Dismantling Apartheid: A South African Town in Transition...

Author: Walton Johnson
ISBN: 9780801499920
Format: Paperback
$72.42

As a result of Pretoria's 1976 imposition of independence on the ""black homeland"" of Transkei, its capital city,...  Read More >>

Urban Innovation: Creative Strategies for Turbulent Times

Urban Innovation: Creative Strategies for Turbulent...

Author: Terry Nichols Clark
ISBN: 9780803938014
Format: Paperback
$268.00

How do cities innovate in the face of fiscal austerity? Based on survey data from the Fiscal Austerity and Innovation...  Read More >>

The Social Production of Urban Space

The Social Production of Urban Space

Author: M. Gottdiener
ISBN: 9780292727724
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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Rebuilding Low Income Housing

Rebuilding Low Income Housing

Author: Rachel Bratt
ISBN: 9781566392631
Format: Paperback
$94.91

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The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California

The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey...

Author: Timothy Fong
ISBN: 9781566392624
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Monterey Park, California, was dubbed by the media as the ""First Suburban Chinatown."" This book reports on how...  Read More >>

Public Archaeology in Annapolis: "A Critical Approach to History in Maryland's ""Ancient City"""

Public Archaeology in Annapolis: "A Critical Approach...

Author: Parker B. Potter ,  Jr.
ISBN: 9781560983187
Format: Hardback
$110.00

In one of the first books to gauge the success of public history projects, Potter examines the goals and specific...  Read More >>

Modelling the City: Performance, Policy and Planning

Modelling the City: Performance, Policy and Planning...

Author: C. S. Bertuglia ,  G. P. Clarke
ISBN: 9780415099448
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Examines the changing role of urban models in relation to urban well-being and planning problems and offers a `new...  Read More >>

Roissy Express: A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs

Roissy Express: A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs...

Author: François Maspero ,  Paul Jones
ISBN: 9780860916987
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Urban Innovation: Creative Strategies for Turbulent Times

Urban Innovation: Creative Strategies for Turbulent...

Author: Terry Nichols Clark
ISBN: 9780803938007
Format: Hardback
$371.00

How do cities innovate in the face of fiscal austerity? Based on survey data from the Fiscal Austerity and Innovation...  Read More >>

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