Urban communities books

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Community Organization and Social Administration: Advances, Trends, and Emerging Principles

Community Organization and Social Administration: Advances,...

Author: Simon Slavin ,  Terry Mizrahi, Phd
ISBN: 9781560242772
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Drawing upon the experiences of social workers and community-based professionals, this book provides a cross-section...  Read More >>

The Twentieth-century American City

The Twentieth-century American City

Author: Jon C. Teaford
ISBN: 9780801845512
Format: Paperback
$66.00

The second edition of this highly acclaimed book brings the story of urban America upto date through the early 1990s,...  Read More >>

The Rebirth of Urban Democracy

The Rebirth of Urban Democracy

Author: Jeffrey M. Berry ,  Kent E. Portney
ISBN: 9780815709275
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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

The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality

The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place...

Author: Daniel D. Arreola ,  James R. Curtis
ISBN: 9780816512874
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Draws on extensive field research to examine eighteen settlements along the 2,000-mile Mexican border, ranging from...  Read More >>

Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological Account

Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological...

Author: William Jankowiak
ISBN: 9780231079617
Format: Paperback
$69.95

An ethnographic study of Chinese urban life in the Mongolian city of Huhhot. The text is organized around specific...  Read More >>

Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological Account

Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological...

Author: William Jankowiak
ISBN: 9780231079600
Format: Hardback
$223.95

An ethnographic study of Chinese urban life in the Mongolian city of Huhhot. The text is organized around specific...  Read More >>

Sustainable Development and Urban Form

Sustainable Development and Urban Form

Author: Michael J. Breheny
ISBN: 9780850861600
Format: Paperback
$74.99

There is widespread consensus that progress towards sustainable development is desirable. However, a particularly...  Read More >>

Third World Cities: Problems, Policies and Prospects

Third World Cities: Problems, Policies and Prospects...

Author: John Kasarda ,  Allan M. Parnell
ISBN: 9780803944855
Format: Paperback
$268.00

Gathering an internationally renowned group of scholars in urbanization and development studies, this work explores...  Read More >>

The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life

The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life...

Author: Richard Sennett (New York University)
ISBN: 9780393309096
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"""[Sennett] has ended up writing the best available contemporary defense of anarchism. . . . The issues [he] raises...  Read More >>

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Author: Jane Jacobs
ISBN: 9780679600473
Format: Hardback
$60.72

Penetrating analysis of the functions and organization of city neighborhoods, the forces of deterioration and regeneration,...  Read More >>

Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements

Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of...

Author: Abner Cohen
ISBN: 9780854967988
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Explores the dynamic relations between cultural forms and political formations in some urban cultural movements....  Read More >>

Front Yard America the Evolution: The Evolution and Meanings of a Vernacular Domestic Landscape

Front Yard America the Evolution: The Evolution and...

Author: Schroeder
ISBN: 9780879726355
Format: Hardback
$110.75

Throughout Front Yard America, Schroeder inquires into the functions, values, and meanings that Americans have found...  Read More >>

Life at Four Corners: Religion, Gender and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945

Life at Four Corners: Religion, Gender and Education...

Author: Carol K. Coburn
ISBN: 9780700605576
Format: Hardback
$81.51

Examines the institutions and experiences that kept a small ethnic community unassimilated in Kansas for 80 years...  Read More >>

Community Organization and Social Administration: Advances, Trends, and Emerging Principles

Community Organization and Social Administration: Advances,...

Author: Simon Slavin ,  Terry Mizrahi, Phd
ISBN: 9781560242574
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Drawing upon the experiences of social workers and community-based professionals, this book provides a cross-section...  Read More >>

The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age

The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early...

Author: John S. Garner (Professor, School of Architecture, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
ISBN: 9780195070279
Format: Hardback
$215.95

A survey of those towns traditionally associated with textiles, mining or tool manufacturing, particularly those...  Read More >>

Religion and Ethnicity: Minorities and Social Change in the Metropolis

Religion and Ethnicity: Minorities and Social Change...

Author: R. Barot
ISBN: 9789039000618
Format: Paperback
$113.52

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Redlining To Reinvestment

Redlining To Reinvestment

Author: Gregory Squires
ISBN: 9780877229858
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Examines how formerly redlined communities have generated billions of dollars in reinvestment.  Read More >>

Planning for a Sustainable Environment

Planning for a Sustainable Environment

Author: Andrew Blowers
ISBN: 9781853831454
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Focusing on the pressures of urban development, this study explains how planners and policy-makers can achieve a...  Read More >>

From Redlining to Reinvestment: Community Responses to Urban Disinvestment

From Redlining to Reinvestment: Community Responses...

Author: Gregory D. Squires ,  Gregory D. Squires
ISBN: 9780877229841
Format: Hardback
$180.84

Community activists examine how formerly redlined communities have generated billions of dollars in reinvestment...  Read More >>

The Battle for Berlin, Ontario: An Historical Drama

The Battle for Berlin, Ontario: An Historical Drama...

Author: W.R. Chadwick
ISBN: 9780889202269
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Racism, the City and the State

Racism, the City and the State

Author: Malcolm Cross ,  Michael Keith
ISBN: 9780415084321
Format: Paperback
$41.99

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Urban Landscapes: International Perspectives

Urban Landscapes: International Perspectives

Author: P. J. Larkham ,  J. W. R. Whitehand
ISBN: 9780415070744
Format: Hardback
$308.00

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Racism, the City and the State

Racism, the City and the State

Author: Malcolm Cross ,  Michael Keith
ISBN: 9780415084314
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities After World War II

In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities...

Author: Jeffry M Diefendorf (University of New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9781280600128
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

This is the first comprehensive study of the rebuilding of West Germany's cities following the Second World War....  Read More >>

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