Urban communities books

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Roissy Express: A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs

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

Author: François Maspero ,  Paul Jones
ISBN: 9780860913733
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Accompanied by photographer Anaik Frantz, Francois Maspero embarked on a journey along the RER, the express subway...  Read More >>

Dismantling Apartheid: A South African Town in Transition

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

Author: Walton Johnson
ISBN: 9780801427015
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Providing an informed account of change and continuity in one town, Dismantling Apartheid is a compelling preview...  Read More >>

Migration and Urbanization in China

Migration and Urbanization in China

Author: Lincoln H. Day ,  Ma Xia
ISBN: 9781563243387
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Based upon an analysis of a national survey of migration conducted in late 1986 by the Chinese Academy of Social...  Read More >>

The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America

The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial...

Author: Kathryn Marie Dudley
ISBN: 9780226169088
Format: Hardback
$163.95

The End of the Line tells the story of the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kathryn...  Read More >>

Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas

Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas

Author: Daniel Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780700606672
Format: Hardback
$68.57

This work takes the reader on a journey round the state of Kansas, visiting 106 towns, such as Palermo, Fostoria,...  Read More >>

Teacher Research and Urban Literacy Education: Lessons and Conversations in a Feminist Key

Teacher Research and Urban Literacy Education: Lessons...

Author: Sandra Hollingsworth
ISBN: 9780807733646
Format: Hardback
$126.72

The collective accounts of student teachers featured in this text suggest an alternative approach to learning how...  Read More >>

Urbanization in Africa: A Handbook

Urbanization in Africa: A Handbook

Author: James D. Tarver ,  Akin Mabogunje
ISBN: 9780313277603
Format: Hardback
$120.00

This reference work provides a summary of historical and contemporary aspects of urbanization in Africa. The second...  Read More >>

A Class Act?: Class Analysis in the Study of Gentrification

A Class Act?: Class Analysis in the Study of Gentrification...

Author: Gary Bridge
ISBN: 9781873575697
Format: Spiral bound
$10.95

This report is a theoretical complement to work undertaken by the author in Fulham, West London. It applies class...  Read More >>

People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems

People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism,...

Author: Herbert J. Gans
ISBN: 9780231074032
Format: Paperback
$69.95

A collection of essays which explores the problems of crime and racism in urban America. The author believes that...  Read More >>

Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School

Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban...

Author: Anne Haas Dyson ,  Celia Genishi
ISBN: 9780807732960
Format: Hardback
$113.52

Presents the results of a two-year ethnographic study of K-3 children who do not tell stories in the written language...  Read More >>

Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century

Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century...

Author: Diane Davis
ISBN: 9781566391511
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School

Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban...

Author: Anne Haas Dyson ,  Celia Genishi
ISBN: 9780807732953
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Presents the results of a two-year ethnographic study of K-3 children who do not tell stories in the written language...  Read More >>

Cities, Classes, and the Social Order

Cities, Classes, and the Social Order

Author: Anthony Lee ,  Roger Sanjek
ISBN: 9780801481680
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This volume brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the influential anthropologist, Anthony Leeds...  Read More >>

The Sociolinguistics of Urbanization: The Case of the Nordic Countries

The Sociolinguistics of Urbanization: The Case of the...

Author: Bengt Nordberg
ISBN: 9783110111842
Format: Hardback
$353.19

"No detailed description available for ""The Sociolinguistics of Urbanization""."  Read More >>

Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs

Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs...

Author: Larry R. Ford (San Diego State University)
ISBN: 9780801846472
Format: Paperback
$75.99

In offering an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and...  Read More >>

Chartering Urban School Reform: Reflections on Public High Schools in the Midst of Change

Chartering Urban School Reform: Reflections on Public...

Author: Michelle Fine
ISBN: 9780807733172
Format: Paperback
$30.80

"This set of essays presents the development of a reform movement in a major urban school district. Throughout the...  Read More >>

Chartering Urban School Reform: Reflections on Public High Schools in the Midst of Change

Chartering Urban School Reform: Reflections on Public...

Author: Michelle Fine
ISBN: 9780807733189
Format: Hardback
$100.78

"This set of essays presents the development of a reform movement in a major urban school district. Throughout the...  Read More >>

Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas

Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas

Author: Daniel Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780700606689
Format: Paperback
$39.47

This work takes the reader on a journey round the state of Kansas, visiting 106 towns, such as Palermo, Fostoria,...  Read More >>

Reshaping Ethnic Relations: Immigrants in a Divided City

Reshaping Ethnic Relations: Immigrants in a Divided...

Author: Judith G. Goode ,  Jo Anne Schneider
ISBN: 9781566391405
Format: Hardback
$158.27

What happens when people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds come together to live and work in the same neighborhood?...  Read More >>

A Parish for the Federal City: St. Patrick's in Washington, 1794-1944

A Parish for the Federal City: St. Patrick's in Washington,...

Author: Morris J. MacGregor
ISBN: 9780813208015
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Washington DC's mother church has often assumed a role in church-state relations - this look at its history describes...  Read More >>

Planning And Urban Change

Planning And Urban Change

Author: Stephen Ward
ISBN: 9781853962189
Format: Paperback
$116.03

Providing an account of British urban planning, this book demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through...  Read More >>

Sex, Death and God in L.A.

Sex, Death and God in L.A.

Author: David Reid
ISBN: 9780520086401
Format: Paperback
$55.95

A collection of essays by novelists, journalists and cultural critics which addresses the myths and interprets the...  Read More >>

Ostdeutsche Wohnmilieus Im Wandel: Eine Untersuchung Ausgewaehlter Stadtgebiete Als Sozialplanerischer Beitrag Zur Stadterneuerung

Ostdeutsche Wohnmilieus Im Wandel: Eine Untersuchung...

Author: U. Herlyn (University of Hanover, Germany) ,  B. Hunger (Bundesforschungsanstalt fur Landeskunde und Raumordnung, Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9783764350499
Format: Paperback
$75.24

This text is concerned with town planning in the former East Germany. Programs are being carried out there to improve...  Read More >>

Suburban Communities: Change and Policy Responses

Suburban Communities: Change and Policy Responses

Author: Dan A. Chekki
ISBN: 9781559387736
Format: Hardback
$151.99

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