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Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender

Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender

Author: Paul Bagguley ,  Jane Mark-Lawson
ISBN: 9780803982147
Format: Hardback
$483.00

The authors of this volume discuss the ways in which places have been transformed by the changes happening within...  Read More >>

Nurturing Neighborhood: The Brownsville Boys' Club and Jewish Community in Urban America, 1940-1990

Nurturing Neighborhood: The Brownsville Boys' Club and...

Author: Gerald Sorin
ISBN: 9780814778975
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Drawing heavily on the reminiscences of the Brownsville boys themselves, and skillfully integrating these with material...  Read More >>

The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago

The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago...

Author: Gerald D. Suttles
ISBN: 9780226781938
Format: Hardback
$102.95

"With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public...  Read More >>

M. O. V. E. Crisis in Philadelphia: Extremist Groups and Conflict Resolution

M. O. V. E. Crisis in Philadelphia: Extremist Groups...

Author: Hizkias Assefa ,  P. Wahrhaftig
ISBN: 9780822954309
Format: Paperback
$44.75

"Examines the 1985 confrontation between police and members of the black counterculture group MOVE, which ended...  Read More >>

Metropolis

Metropolis

Author: Emrys Jones
ISBN: 9780192825780
Format: Paperback
$19.95

Explores the idea of a class of supercities in the past and present, and in the western and developing worlds....  Read More >>

British Atlas of Historic Towns Vol. III : The City of London from Prehistoric Times to c. 1520

British Atlas of Historic Towns Vol. III : The City...

Author: Mary D. Lobel
ISBN: 9780198229797
Format: Hardback
$400.00

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Managing Fiscal Strain in Major American Cities: Understanding Retrenchment in the Public Sector

Managing Fiscal Strain in Major American Cities: Understanding...

Author: William Pammer
ISBN: 9780313266560
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Part Three, Retrenchment and the Urban Policy Process, builds upon the garbage can model developed by March and...  Read More >>

Coping with Cultural and Racial Diversity in Urban America

Coping with Cultural and Racial Diversity in Urban America...

Author: Wallace Lambert ,  Donald M. Taylor
ISBN: 9780275931742
Format: Hardback
$140.00

How far can an ethnic group in America maintain its identity before it is regarded as un-American? The research...  Read More >>

Suburban Lives

Suburban Lives

Author: Margaret Marsh
ISBN: 9780813514840
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Property, Politics, and Urban Planning: A History of Australian City Planning 1890-1990

Property, Politics, and Urban Planning: A History of...

Author: Leonie Sandercock ,  Leonie Sandercock
ISBN: 9780887383359
Format: Hardback
$124.07

This book written before the cusp of a waning left-liberal approach to planning issues and a just blossoming neo-Marxist...  Read More >>

The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis

The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Peter Mandler ,  Peter Mandler
ISBN: 9780812282146
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original...  Read More >>

Mega Cities: The Metropolis Era

Mega Cities: The Metropolis Era

Author: Mattei Dogan ,  John Kasarda
ISBN: 9780803937901
Format: Paperback
$198.00

This two-volume work focuses on the social, economic, political and technological determinants of growth and change...  Read More >>

A World of Giant Cities: The Metropolis Era

A World of Giant Cities: The Metropolis Era

Author: Mattei Dogan ,  John Kasarda
ISBN: 9780803937895
Format: Paperback
$268.00

This two-volume work focuses on the social, economic, political and technological determinants of growth and change...  Read More >>

China Urban Statistics 1988

China Urban Statistics 1988

Author: State Statistical Bureau of the People's Republic of China
ISBN: 9780275935146
Format: Hardback
$110.00

The volumes so far published are China Statistical Abstract 1988, China Social Statistics 1986, China Trade and...  Read More >>

Nobody's Home

Nobody's Home

Author: Lyn Richards
ISBN: 9780195547610
Format: Paperback
$31.50

This sociological study explores the phenomenon of the new, affluent outer suburb, where everyone wants the ideal...  Read More >>

Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe

Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe...

Author: Peter Mair ,  Gordon Smith
ISBN: 9780714633817
Format: Paperback
$95.00

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Information Technology & The Law

Information Technology & The Law

Author: Chriswards ,  Ian Walden
ISBN: 9781349117703
Format: Paperback
$84.99

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Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces

Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces...

Author: Jacqueline Lindenfeld
ISBN: 9789027250179
Format: Hardback
$353.76

This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban...  Read More >>

The Broken Apple: New York City in the 1980's

The Broken Apple: New York City in the 1980's

Author: Herbert I. London
ISBN: 9780887382963
Format: Hardback
$271.69

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The Urban Web: Politics, Policy, and Theory

The Urban Web: Politics, Policy, and Theory

Author: Lawrence J R Herson
ISBN: 9780830410781
Format: Hardback
$61.95

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THE POOR DIE YOUNG

THE POOR DIE YOUNG

Author: Jorge E. Hardoy ,  etc.
ISBN: 9781853830198
Format: Book
$34.95

The editors use examples from Nigeria, India and Argentina to describe the scale of ill health, disablement and...  Read More >>

""Getting Paid"": Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City

""Getting Paid"": Youth Crime and Work in the Inner...

Author: Mercer L. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780801495984
Format: Paperback
$60.59

The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority...  Read More >>

The Future of National Urban Policy

The Future of National Urban Policy

Author: Marshall Kaplan
ISBN: 9780822309277
Format: Paperback
$81.71

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Homeless In America

Homeless In America

Author: Carol L. M. Caton (Associate Professor and Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Scientists of Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780195039184
Format: Hardback
$70.95

The first comprehensive account of the homeless in the United States, including case histories of the homeless,...  Read More >>

Glasgow: Going for a Song

Glasgow: Going for a Song

Author: Sean Damer
ISBN: 9780853157274
Format: Paperback
$38.81

Over the last decase Glasgow's reputation has swung from being the home of gang violence and unemployemnt to being...  Read More >>

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