Urban communities books

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The Urban Experience

The Urban Experience

Author: David Harvey
ISBN: 9780801838491
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The Urban Experience, write's Harvey, ""is about ways of seeing the city, of reading its text and finding an interpretive...  Read More >>

The Social Organisation of Death: Medical Discourse and Social Practices in Belfast

The Social Organisation of Death: Medical Discourse...

Author: Lindsay Prior
ISBN: 9780333464359
Format: Paperback
$84.99

A study of the way in which death is socially organized in the city of Belfast. It analyzes the responses to 415...  Read More >>

The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma

The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic...

Author: John D. Dorst
ISBN: 9780812212822
Format: Paperback
$65.87

""A subversive and postmodern work about the town of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The book considers Wyeth country—what...  Read More >>

The Urbanists, 1865-1915

The Urbanists, 1865-1915

Author: Dana F. White
ISBN: 9780313252563
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Based on a reading of almost 6,000 entries from 37 periodicals published between the years 1865 and 1900, The Urbanists...  Read More >>

Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise And Fall Of Suburbia

Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise And Fall Of Suburbia

Author: Robert Fishman
ISBN: 9780465007479
Format: Paperback
$51.48

A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century...  Read More >>

The Moral Order of a Suburb

The Moral Order of a Suburb

Author: M. P. Baumgartner (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780195054132
Format: Hardback
$409.00

This study examines the way residents of an affluent New York suburb deal with conflict in their families, neighbourhoods...  Read More >>

Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth

Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth

Author: Tertius Chandler
ISBN: 9780889462076
Format: Hardback
$297.43

"A complete revision of ""Three Thousand Years of Urban Growth"" by the same author, this book covers the populations...  Read More >>

Loft Living

Loft Living

Author: Sharon Zukin
ISBN: 9780813513898
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force...  Read More >>

Trends in Urban Library Management: Institute Proceedings

Trends in Urban Library Management: Institute Proceedings...

Author: Mohammed M. Aman ,  Donald J. Sager
ISBN: 9780810822450
Format: Paperback
$50.95

Most of the papers are thought provoking and well written...will stimulate the reader's vision of the urban future....  Read More >>

Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History

Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History

Author: Michael H. Ebner
ISBN: 9780226182056
Format: Hardback
$165.00

They are the suburban jewels that crown one of the world's premier cities. Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka,...  Read More >>

The Plight of Crime Victims in Modern Society

The Plight of Crime Victims in Modern Society

Author: Ezzat A. Fattah
ISBN: 9781349200856
Format: Paperback
$249.00

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New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future

New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future...

Author: Peter Salins (Hunter College and City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781557860088
Format: Hardback
$75.95

New York Unbound is a critical examination of the problems and prospects of New York City as it approaches the twenty--first...  Read More >>

Immigration and Urbanization: The Slovak Experience, 1870-1918

Immigration and Urbanization: The Slovak Experience,...

Author: M.Mark Stolarik
ISBN: 9780404194529
Format: Hardback
$213.47

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Crisis in the Built Environment: The Case of the Muslim City

Crisis in the Built Environment: The Case of the Muslim...

Author: Akbar
ISBN: 9789004087583
Format: Paperback
$163.68

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The Humanity of Cities: An Introduction to Urban Societies

The Humanity of Cities: An Introduction to Urban Societies...

Author: John Gulick
ISBN: 9780897891592
Format: Paperback
$66.99

American Anthropologist Combining major urban theories with empirical studies from around the world, the author...  Read More >>

Yi Fa Zhi Cheng Chu Tan

Yi Fa Zhi Cheng Chu Tan

Author: Zhongtan Huang ,  Xin Situ
ISBN: 9787218002798
Format: Book
$19.01

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Shiloh

Shiloh

Author: Donald Schley
ISBN: 9781281842206
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

This work is the first comprehensive treatment of the biblical traditions pertaining to the Israelite sanctuary...  Read More >>

Canadian City

Canadian City

Author: Roger Kemble
ISBN: 9781322520858
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

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Those Inner Cities

Those Inner Cities

Author: Brian Robson
ISBN: 9780198741497
Format: Paperback
$28.95

A book aiming to give an overview of the vagaries of urban policy in Britain specifying both successful and unsuccessful...  Read More >>

Islamic Jurisprudence: An International Perspective

Islamic Jurisprudence: An International Perspective...

Author: C.G. Weeramantry
ISBN: 9781349194582
Format: Paperback
$426.95

This book seeks to present information, not at present available in a single work, on the pioneering efforts of...  Read More >>

Wood Quay: The Clash over Dublin's Viking Past

Wood Quay: The Clash over Dublin's Viking Past

Author: Thomas F. Heffernan
ISBN: 9780292729773
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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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: 9780198255987
Format: Hardback
$159.95

An examination of the cultures of the East End and the CID and the relationship between these two groups in terms...  Read More >>

Mediterranean Cities: Historical Perspectives

Mediterranean Cities: Historical Perspectives

Author: Robert L. Hohlfelder ,  Irad Malkin
ISBN: 9780714633534
Format: Hardback
$252.00

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Urbanization of the Third World

The Urbanization of the Third World

Author: Josef Gugler
ISBN: 9780198232599
Format: Paperback
$58.50

A collection of readings considering the urbanization of the Third World, including questions of migration and the...  Read More >>

Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy

Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy...

Author: Lauro Martines
ISBN: 9780801836435
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Martines traces the growth of commerce and the evolution of governments; he describes the attitudes, pleasures,...  Read More >>

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