Urban communities books

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Divided Cities

Divided Cities

Author: Susan S. Fainstein (Harvard University) ,  Ian Gordon (London School of Economics)
ISBN: 9780631183020
Format: Paperback
$73.74

Divided Cities is the comparative analysis of New York and London which many have been waiting for. Wider in scope...  Read More >>

Serving the Urban Poor

Serving the Urban Poor

Author: David Fanshel ,  Stephen J. Finch
ISBN: 9780275940751
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This volume, based on the authors' close and extensive collaboration with New York's Lower East Family Union, affords...  Read More >>

Cities and Churches: An International Bibliography

Cities and Churches: An International Bibliography

Author: Loyde H. Hartley
ISBN: 9780810825833
Format: Hardback
$464.95

Organized by author, subject and year of publication, Hartley present 18,500 apt and engaging citations of urban...  Read More >>

Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915–1945

Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community...

Author: Richard W. Thomas
ISBN: 9780253359902
Format: Hardback
$106.95

Black community building was not a smooth or conflict-free process. This study focuses on how industrial workers,...  Read More >>

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Author: William Cronon
ISBN: 9780393308730
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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Dual City: Restructuring of New York

Dual City: Restructuring of New York

Author: John H. Mollenkopf ,  Manuel Castells
ISBN: 9780871546081
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"Have the last two decades produced a New York composed of two separate and unequal cities? As the contributors...  Read More >>

Our Town

Our Town

Author: Dorothy Norman
ISBN: 9780893815035
Format: Paperback
$48.84

Looks at the idea of community in America today, focusing on everything from the proverbial white picket fence and...  Read More >>

Politics of Policy Innovation in Chicago

Politics of Policy Innovation in Chicago

Author: Terry Nichols Clark
ISBN: 9781559380577
Format: Hardback
$248.95

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Local Government and Community in Java

Local Government and Community in Java

Author: John Sullivan
ISBN: 9780195885590
Format: Hardback
$69.95

This study argues that the small local communities embracing most of Java's population are basically political constructions...  Read More >>

The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States

The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning...

Author: John William Reps
ISBN: 9780691006185
Format: Paperback
$184.67

From the early colonial period to the First World War, this title explores to what extent city planning has been...  Read More >>

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9781417616343
Format: Hardback
$71.15

USA National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his account of the American educational system in...  Read More >>

Born To Die in Medellin

Born To Die in Medellin

Author: Alonso Salazar ,  Colin Harding
ISBN: 9780906156667
Format: Paperback
$33.51

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Beyond 911: A New Era For Policing

Beyond 911: A New Era For Policing

Author: Malcolm K Sparrow ,  Mark H. Moore
ISBN: 9780465006762
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Drawing on the experiences of innovative police departments that have tried new approaches to policing in cities...  Read More >>

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life...

Author: Richard Sennett (New York University)
ISBN: 9780393308785
Format: Paperback
$42.11

"""Visionary, often brilliant."" —Los Angeles Times"  Read More >>

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9780780731639
Format: Undefined
$60.98

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Fractured Cities: Capitalism, Community and Empowerment in Britain and America

Fractured Cities: Capitalism, Community and Empowerment...

Author: Brian D. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780415078535
Format: Paperback
$90.00

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The Reform of Housing in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

The Reform of Housing in Eastern Europe and the Soviet...

Author: Jozsef Hegedus ,  Ivan Tosics
ISBN: 9780415070683
Format: Hardback
$308.00

This collection of studies, both Eastern and Western in perspective, outlines the most recent housing reforms in...  Read More >>

The Emergence of Technopolis: Knowledge-Intensive Technologies and Regional Development

The Emergence of Technopolis: Knowledge-Intensive Technologies...

Author: Robert Preer
ISBN: 9780275940904
Format: Hardback
$110.00

It also develops a theoretical framework for understanding why regional high-technology development occurs and the...  Read More >>

Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Neighborhoods

Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay...

Author: Wesley G. Skogan
ISBN: 9780520076938
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"By highlighting the relationship between disorder and neighbourhood life, this title attempts to expand the scope...  Read More >>

Cities, Poverty and Development

Cities, Poverty and Development

Author: Alan Gilbert ,  Josef Gugler
ISBN: 9780198741619
Format: Paperback
$80.00

An interdisciplinary, polemic, account of Third World urbanization. The text reviews and criticizes the principal...  Read More >>

Cities, Poverty and Development

Cities, Poverty and Development

Author: Alan Gilbert ,  Josef Gugler
ISBN: 9780198741602
Format: Hardback
$100.00

An interdisciplinary, polemic, account of Third World urbanization. The text reviews and criticizes the principal...  Read More >>

Urbanism and Industrial Culture: Industry and Urban Culture

Urbanism and Industrial Culture: Industry and Urban...

Author: Ulrike Zophoniasson ,  Claire Bonney
ISBN: 9783764327248
Format: Hardback
$55.65

A study of urbanism and industrial culture, from an international workshop sponsored by Vitra and the city of Weil...  Read More >>

A History of Housing in New York City

A History of Housing in New York City

Author: Richard Plunz ,  Kenneth Jackson
ISBN: 9780231062978
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Traces New York's housing development from 1850 onward. This book explores the housing of various classes, with...  Read More >>

Urbanizing China

Urbanizing China

Author: Gregory Guldin
ISBN: 9780313268137
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This text focuses on the question of whether China is already urbanized. Each of the contributors considers the...  Read More >>

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