Urban communities books

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Moscow Under Stalinist Rule, 1931-34

Moscow Under Stalinist Rule, 1931-34

Author: Nobuo Shimotomai
ISBN: 9780333458112
Format: Hardback
$280.00

The difficult years of Moscow in 1931-34 witnessed enormous social change in the city and the region. Industrialisation...  Read More >>

Tackling the Inner Cities

Tackling the Inner Cities

Author: Susanne MacGregor ,  Ben Pimlott
ISBN: 9780198273233
Format: Paperback
$47.50

Contributors assess the Thatcher government's policy towards the inner cities, and ask what alternative approaches...  Read More >>

Big City Politics in Transition

Big City Politics in Transition

Author: H . V. Savitch ,  John Clayton Thomas
ISBN: 9780803940314
Format: Paperback
$198.00

Examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990 by tracing...  Read More >>

War and the City

War and the City

Author: Gregory J. Ashworth
ISBN: 9780415053471
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Adolescent Pregnancy in an Urban Environment

Adolescent Pregnancy in an Urban Environment

Author: Janet B. Hardy ,  Laurie Schwab Zabin
ISBN: 9780877665205
Format: Paperback
$84.95

An interdisciplinary group of clinicians and researchers involved with adolescent pregnancy and prevention programs...  Read More >>

The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development

The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban...

Author: Manuel Castells (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780631179375
Format: Paperback
$84.95

The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the...  Read More >>

Exquisite Corpse: Writing on Buildings

Exquisite Corpse: Writing on Buildings

Author: Michael Sorkin
ISBN: 9780860913238
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Discusses the politics and culture of architecture - its powerful institutions and personalities, its various schools,...  Read More >>

Housing the North American City

Housing the North American City

Author: Michael Doucet ,  John C. Weaver
ISBN: 9780773508255
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Frontier and Metropolis: Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914

Frontier and Metropolis: Regions, Cities, and Identities...

Author: J.M.S. Careless
ISBN: 9780802069078
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Careless endows his subject with the combined fornce of his own continuing research, his sensitivity to the new...  Read More >>

Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life, 2nd Edition

Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life, 2nd Edition

Author: David A. Karp ,  Gladys Stone
ISBN: 9780275932923
Format: Paperback
$97.55

In Part II, the authors look at selected aspects of everyday city life, including the bases of community, the primacy...  Read More >>

Housing Markets and Housing Institutions: An International Comparison

Housing Markets and Housing Institutions: An International...

Author: Björn Hårsman ,  John M. Quigley
ISBN: 9780792390848
Format: Hardback
$483.12

This is particularly true in comparative analyses of housing and the operation of housing markets. Housing markets...  Read More >>

The Margins of City Life: Explorations of the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851

The Margins of City Life: Explorations of the French...

Author: John M. Merriman (Professor of History and Master of Branford College, Professor of History and Master of Branford College, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780195064384
Format: Hardback
$147.35

"The Margins of Urban Life brings to life the ""floating worlds of the periphery"" in nineteenth-century French...  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: 9780231074025
Format: Hardback
$223.95

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

The Fractured Metropolis: Political Fragmentation and Metropolitan Segregation

The Fractured Metropolis: Political Fragmentation and...

Author: Gregory R. Weiher
ISBN: 9780791405659
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Preface 1. Urban Political Boundaries and Metropolitan Fragmentation 2. Place, Preferences, and Information:...  Read More >>

Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism

Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism...

Author: Nezar AlSayyad
ISBN: 9780313277917
Format: Hardback
$172.00

Examines the extraordinary characteristics of Islamic urbanism and the process by which cities and towns were absorbed...  Read More >>

Planning for Serfdom: Legal Economic Discourse and Downtown Development

Planning for Serfdom: Legal Economic Discourse and Downtown...

Author: Robin Paul Malloy
ISBN: 9780812230550
Format: Hardback
$224.27

Robin Paul Malloy investigates legal relationships and the discourse used to validate particular distributions of...  Read More >>

Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School

Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students,...

Author: Samuel G Freedman
ISBN: 9780060920876
Format: Paperback
$26.39

An account of one year with an urban high school teacher and the struggles she and her students face both inside...  Read More >>

British Inner Cities

British Inner Cities

Author: Hugh Matthews
ISBN: 9780199133673
Format: Paperback
$25.95

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Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society

Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society...

Author: Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
ISBN: 9780520074347
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Intends to understand the gang phenomenon in the United States. This title offers an explanation of the research...  Read More >>

Services and Metropolitan Development: International Perspectives

Services and Metropolitan Development: International...

Author: Peter W. Daniels
ISBN: 9780415008525
Format: Hardback
$322.00

Explores the processes guiding both the development and the spatial impacts of services on the urban system and...  Read More >>

The Urban Underclass

The Urban Underclass

Author: Christopher Jencks ,  Paul E. Peterson
ISBN: 9780815746058
Format: Paperback
$48.99

Many believe that the urban underclass in America is a large, rapidly increasing proportion of the population; that...  Read More >>

Urban System and Network of Corporate Control

Urban System and Network of Corporate Control

Author: Christopher Ross
ISBN: 9781559384742
Format: Hardback
$228.36

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In Search of the New South: Black Urban Experience in the 1970's and 1980's

In Search of the New South: Black Urban Experience in...

Author: Robert D. Bullard
ISBN: 9780817305413
Format: Paperback
$57.95

"Dedicated to the struggling Third World people in America, this work explores the extent to which blacks have shared...  Read More >>

Competitive City, The: The Political Economy of Suburbia

Competitive City, The: The Political Economy of Suburbia...

Author: Mark Schneider
ISBN: 9780822954521
Format: Paperback
$68.51

The Competitive City analyzes the effect of competition among suburban communities to attract residents and businesses...  Read More >>

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