Urban communities books

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Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893

Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893

Author: James Gilbert
ISBN: 9780226293189
Format: Paperback
$56.95

"In this elegant and sensitive look at the milieu of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, James Gilbert examines...  Read More >>

Urban Social Movements in Jerusalem: The Protest of the Second Generation

Urban Social Movements in Jerusalem: The Protest of...

Author: Shlomo Hasson
ISBN: 9780791414279
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Hasson explores the development of eight urban protest organizations in Israel, revealing how social deprivation...  Read More >>

Dolor y Alegria: Women and Social Change in Urban Mexico

Dolor y Alegria: Women and Social Change in Urban Mexico...

Author: Sarah Le Vine ,  Clara Sunderland Correa
ISBN: 9780299137946
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"In """"Dolor y Alegria"""", 15 mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers in the Mexican City of Cuernavaca speak...  Read More >>

Mirrors of Violence

Mirrors of Violence

Author: Veena Das
ISBN: 9780195632217
Format: Paperback
$31.95

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The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City

The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City

Author: Nicholas Deakin ,  John Edwards
ISBN: 9780415035491
Format: Paperback
$87.00

Offers a vigorous and critical investigation of government policy for inner city regeneration during the 1980s and...  Read More >>

The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City

The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City

Author: Nicholas Deakin ,  John Edwards
ISBN: 9780415035484
Format: Hardback
$246.00

Offers a vigorous and critical investigation of government policy for inner city regeneration during the 1980s and...  Read More >>

Urbanities: Visions of the Metropolis

Urbanities: Visions of the Metropolis

Author: Rosen Publishing Group ,  Roger Rosen
ISBN: 9780780744264
Format: Undefined
$45.14

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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through...

Author: Spiro Kostof (University of California at Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780821220160
Format: Paperback
$105.60

"Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a ""repository of cultural meaning"" and an...  Read More >>

The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space

The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space

Author: Gary McDonogh ,  Robert Rotenberg
ISBN: 9780897893206
Format: Paperback
$62.00

A cross-cultural approach to urban space. This is a collection of essays providing a range of case studies which...  Read More >>

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

Author: Robert Gooding-Williams
ISBN: 9780415907354
Format: Paperback
$56.00

Philosophers, legal scholars and social scientists amongst others explore the issues provoked by the Rodney King...  Read More >>

The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space

The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space

Author: Gary McDonogh ,  Robert Rotenberg
ISBN: 9780897893190
Format: Hardback
$131.00

A cross-cultural approach to urban space. This is a collection of essays providing a range of case studies which...  Read More >>

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

Author: Robert Gooding-Williams
ISBN: 9780415907347
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Philosophers, legal scholars and social scientists amongst others explore the issues provoked by the Rodney King...  Read More >>

The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities

The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities

Author: Larry S. Bourne ,  David F. Ley
ISBN: 9780773509269
Format: Hardback
$264.00

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The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities

The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities

Author: Larry S. Bourne ,  David F. Ley
ISBN: 9780773509726
Format: Paperback
$93.15

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Villages Astir: Community Development, Tradition, and Change in Korea

Villages Astir: Community Development, Tradition, and...

Author: John E. Turner ,  Vicki L. Hesli
ISBN: 9780275943721
Format: Hardback
$140.00

As a point of comparison, the authors also examine differences between the villagers and rural migrants living in...  Read More >>

Urban Management: Policies and Innovations in Developing Countries

Urban Management: Policies and Innovations in Developing...

Author: Shabbir Cheema ,  Sandra E. Ward
ISBN: 9780275940850
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The relentless growth of cities in developing countries is inevitable - and irreversible. This work reviews innovative...  Read More >>

Doing the Business: Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London

Doing the Business: Entrepreneurship, the Working Class,...

Author: Dick Hobbs (Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780198258322
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This is a colourful and lively - but scholarly - examination of the relationship between the cultures of the East...  Read More >>

Victorian Cities

Victorian Cities

Author: Asa Briggs ,  Andrew Lees
ISBN: 9780520079229
Format: Paperback
$76.43

A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities...  Read More >>

Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World

Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World

Author: Sharon Zukin
ISBN: 9780520082885
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The momentous changes which are transforming American life call for a new exploration of the economic and cultural...  Read More >>

The Exploding Metropolis

The Exploding Metropolis

Author: William H. Whyte ,  Sam Bass Warner
ISBN: 9780520080904
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Addresses the problems of urban decline and suburban sprawl, transportation, city politics, open space, and the...  Read More >>

Urban Symbolism

Urban Symbolism

Author: Peter J.M. Nas
ISBN: 9789004098558
Format: Paperback
$543.84

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The Rebirth of Urban Democracy

The Rebirth of Urban Democracy

Author: Jeffrey M. Berry ,  Kent E. Portney
ISBN: 9780815709282
Format: Hardback
$118.67

In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly...  Read More >>

Urban Anthropology in China

Urban Anthropology in China

Author: Gregory Eliyu Guldin ,  Aidan Southall
ISBN: 9789004096202
Format: Paperback
$543.84

This volume is based on the papers that were presented at the First International Urban Anthropology Conference....  Read More >>

People, Places and Networks

People, Places and Networks

Author: Gary Bridge
ISBN: 9781873575482
Format: Spiral bound
$9.95

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Gentrification, Class and Residence: A Reappraisal

Gentrification, Class and Residence: A Reappraisal

Author: Gary Bridge
ISBN: 9781873575383
Format: Spiral bound
$9.95

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