Urban communities books

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Educational Resilience in inner-city America: Challenges and Prospects

Educational Resilience in inner-city America: Challenges...

Author: Margaret C Wang ,  Edmund W. Gordon
ISBN: 9780805813258
Format: Paperback
$56.00

This text looks beyond poverty and unemployment, street-fights and drug deals in American inner-cities to examine...  Read More >>

Methodology For Land And Housing Market Analysis

Methodology For Land And Housing Market Analysis

Author: Gareth Jones ,  Peter M. Ward
ISBN: 9781857280920
Format: Hardback
$126.00

Aims to bring methods of land-market and land-price analysis to the foreground. It relates substantive research...  Read More >>

Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside

Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment...

Author: Randy Stoecker
ISBN: 9781566391276
Format: Hardback
$238.92

Tells a biography of Cedar-Riverside, nationally known for a period as the Haight-Ashbury of the Mid-West, contains...  Read More >>

Irish Urban Cultures

Irish Urban Cultures

Author: Chris Curtin ,  Hastings Donnan
ISBN: 9780853895022
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities

Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of...

Author: Gerald Greenfield
ISBN: 9780313259371
Format: Hardback
$120.00

This volume provides extensive information on the urban experience in Latin America. Each chapter begins with an...  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: 9780807733639
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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

Cities with Invisible Walls

Cities with Invisible Walls

Author: Kam Wing Chan
ISBN: 9780195857641
Format: Hardback
$100.00

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

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

Author: Timothy P. Fong
ISBN: 9781566391238
Format: Hardback
$220.44

Monterey Park, California, only eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, was dubbed by the media as the First...  Read More >>

Facadism

Facadism

Author: Jonathan Richards
ISBN: 9780415083164
Format: Hardback
$350.00

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The Politics of Redistributing Urban Aid

The Politics of Redistributing Urban Aid

Author: John G. Heilman ,  Robert Montjoy
ISBN: 9780275947163
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Targeted federal aid to needy city areas is difficult to maintain because of political pressure to broaden geographical...  Read More >>

The Latin American City

The Latin American City

Author: Alan Gilbert ,  James Ferguson
ISBN: 9780906156827
Format: Paperback
$46.45

The Latin American City looks at the region's urban explosion from the perspective of the poor. It asks why people...  Read More >>

Beyond Urban Bias in Africa: Urbanization in an Era of Structural Adjustment

Beyond Urban Bias in Africa: Urbanization in an Era...

Author: Charles M. Becker ,  Andrew M. Hamer
ISBN: 9780852551479
Format: Paperback
$41.95

This text focuses on whether African development has historically been weighted in favour of the urban areas.  Read More >>

The Informal City

The Informal City

Author: Michel S. Laguerre
ISBN: 9781349235421
Format: Paperback
$169.00

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

Urban Development in the Muslim World

Urban Development in the Muslim World

Author: Hooshang Amirahmadi ,  Salah S. El-Shakhs
ISBN: 9780882851419
Format: Hardback
$151.37

War and revolution have focused the world's attention on the Middle East  Read More >>

Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945

Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the...

Author: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
ISBN: 9780807821145
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945  Read More >>

Education in Urban Areas: Cross-National Dimensions

Education in Urban Areas: Cross-National Dimensions...

Author: Nelly P Stromquist
ISBN: 9780275946586
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Dimensions peculiar to urban life, such as high population density, proximity to power centers, heterogeneity of...  Read More >>

Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio De Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas

Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio De Janeiro:...

Author: Robert Gay
ISBN: 9781566391207
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Presents an urban tale of survival, which illustrates two versions of active, organized, aggressive participation...  Read More >>

Research in Urban Economics: Structuring Direct Aid - People Versus Places

Research in Urban Economics: Structuring Direct Aid...

Author: Robert Ebel
ISBN: 9781559382823
Format: Hardback
$217.80

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PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES: The Market Provision of Social Services

PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES: The Market Provision...

Author: Fred E. Foldvary
ISBN: 9781852789510
Format: Hardback
$294.98

In Public Goods and Private Communities, Fred Foldvary’s innovative application of public choice and spatial theory...  Read More >>

Services for the Urban Poor: A select bibliography

Services for the Urban Poor: A select bibliography

Author: Richard Franceys ,  Andrew Cotton
ISBN: 9781853391880
Format: Paperback
$33.51

The result of a review of the literature on infrastructure design for urban low-income housing. Covers infrastructure...  Read More >>

Jobs from Housing: Employment, building materials, and enabling strategies for urban development

Jobs from Housing: Employment, building materials, and...

Author: Robin Spence ,  Jill Wells
ISBN: 9781853392122
Format: Paperback
$38.68

Based on evidence from throughout the developing world this book takes a fresh look at the processes and the problems...  Read More >>

Saint John: The Making of a Colonial Urban Community

Saint John: The Making of a Colonial Urban Community...

Author: Thomas Acheson
ISBN: 9780802073808
Format: Paperback
$89.63

T.W. Acheson traces the events that led to Saint John, New Brunswick's character change and analyses their impact...  Read More >>

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