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Cities, Society, and Social Perception: A Central African Perspective

Cities, Society, and Social Perception: A Central African...

Author: J Clyde Mitchell
ISBN: 9786610806737
Format: Undefined
$443.68

The social and theoretical difficulties raised by the process of urbanization and westernization have constituted...  Read More >>

Cities, Society, and Social Perception: A Central African Perspective

Cities, Society, and Social Perception: A Central African...

Author: J. Clyde Mitchell
ISBN: 9780198232537
Format: Hardback
$152.95

The social and theoretical difficulties raised by the processes of urbanization and westernization have constituted...  Read More >>

Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company

Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber...

Author: Keith C. Petersen
ISBN: 9780874220377
Format: Paperback
$47.30

At a bend in the Palouse River, in the shadow of Gold Hill, rests the town of Potlatch, Idaho. It projects an image...  Read More >>

Archaeology and Environment in Early Dublin

Archaeology and Environment in Early Dublin

Author: G.Frank Mitchell
ISBN: 9780901714657
Format: Hardback
$40.92

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Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America

Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape...

Author: James L. Machor
ISBN: 9780299112844
Format: Paperback
$39.47

What has the city meant to Americans? James L. Machor explores this question in a provocative analysis of American...  Read More >>

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United...

Author: Kenneth T. Jackson (professor of History, professor of History, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780195049831
Format: Paperback
$30.95

The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban...  Read More >>

Youth Crime and Urban Policy: A View from the Inner City

Youth Crime and Urban Policy: A View from the Inner...

Author: Robert L. Woodson
ISBN: 9780844722108
Format: Paperback
$31.68

This book explores the role of local community-based organizations that have successfully controlled youth crime...  Read More >>

Rising Damp

Rising Damp

Author: Shirley Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780195547504
Format: Hardback
$54.95

"Thousands were attracted to cities like Sydney in the boom of the 1870s and 1880s, in the belief that fortunes...  Read More >>

New Communities for Urban Squatters: Lessons from the Plan That Failed in Dhaka, Bangladesh

New Communities for Urban Squatters: Lessons from the...

Author: C. L. Choguill
ISBN: 9780306425455
Format: Hardback
$171.60

This is a book on the interrelatedness of planning and implementation, on how policymakers and planners can be more...  Read More >>

Memories of Silk and Straw: Self-portrait of Small Town Japan

Memories of Silk and Straw: Self-portrait of Small Town...

Author: Jun'ichi Saga ,  Susumu Saga
ISBN: 9780870117923
Format: Hardback
$43.95

Interviews with a blacksmith, cotton dyer, undertaker, farmer, butcher, geish carpenter, hangman, midwife, and fisherman...  Read More >>

Freiburg and the Breisgau: Town-Country Relations in the Age of Reformation and Peasant's War

Freiburg and the Breisgau: Town-Country Relations in...

Author: Tom Scott (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9780198219965
Format: Hardback
$209.95

This regional study examines the declining fortunes of a craft town on the Upper Rhine from 1450 to 1530 in the...  Read More >>

The Future of the Metropolis: Berlin London Paris New York. Economic Aspects

The Future of the Metropolis: Berlin London Paris New...

Author: Hans-Jürgen Ewers ,  John B. Goddard
ISBN: 9783110104981
Format: Hardback
$376.48

"No detailed description available for ""The Future of the Metropolis""."  Read More >>

The Cross and the Switchblade

The Cross and the Switchblade

Author: David Wilkerson ,  John Sherrill
ISBN: 9780515090253
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Gangfighters. Drug addicts. Teenage runaways and prostitutes. The toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's...  Read More >>

Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town

Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in...

Author: Carol J. Greenhouse
ISBN: 9780801419713
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Anthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law in a predominantly...  Read More >>

Quality of Urban Life: Social, Psychological, and Physical Conditions

Quality of Urban Life: Social, Psychological, and Physical...

Author: Dieter Frick ,  Hans W. Hoefert
ISBN: 9783110105773
Format: Hardback
$258.75

"No detailed description available for ""Quality of Urban Life""."  Read More >>

Neighborhood Upgrading: A Realistic Assessment

Neighborhood Upgrading: A Realistic Assessment

Author: David P. Varady
ISBN: 9780887062995
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Neighborhood Upgrading examines the effectiveness of government-subsidized housing rehabilitation programs in reversing...  Read More >>

Stadtwachstum, Industrialisierung, Sozialer Wandel: Beitrage Zur Erforschung Der Urbanisierung Im 19. Und 2. Jahrhundert

Stadtwachstum, Industrialisierung, Sozialer Wandel:...

Author: Hans-Jurgen Teuteberg
ISBN: 9783428060436
Format: Paperback
$221.76

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Neighborhood Upgrading: A Realistic Assessment

Neighborhood Upgrading: A Realistic Assessment

Author: David P. Varady
ISBN: 9780887063008
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Neighborhood Upgrading examines the effectiveness of government-subsidized housing rehabilitation programs in reversing...  Read More >>

Social Theory and the Urban Question

Social Theory and the Urban Question

Author: Peter Saunders
ISBN: 9780415091169
Format: Paperback
$78.00

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The City in Late Imperial Russia

The City in Late Imperial Russia

Author: Michael F. Hamm
ISBN: 9780253313706
Format: Hardback
$65.95

From the Great Reforms that began in the 1860s to the revolutions of 1917, the Russian Empire experienced a period...  Read More >>

Urban Neighborhoods: Research and Policy

Urban Neighborhoods: Research and Policy

Author: Ralph B. Taylor
ISBN: 9780275920173
Format: Hardback
$141.95

Those involved in urban neighborhood and community research with an applied focus will find in this volume a number...  Read More >>

Children of the City: At Work and At Play

Children of the City: At Work and At Play

Author: David Nasaw (Professor of History, College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780195040159
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Children of the City re-creates turn-of-the-century American cities from the point of view of the children who lived...  Read More >>

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