Urban communities books

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Parallele de Paris Et de Londres

Parallele de Paris Et de Londres

Author: Louis-Sebastien Mercier
ISBN: 9782864600220
Format: Paperback
$97.68

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Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier

Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard,...

Author: Robert Fishman (University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780262560238
Format: Paperback
$97.68

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright...  Read More >>

Power and Society in Greater New York

Power and Society in Greater New York

Author: David C. Hammack
ISBN: 9780871543486
Format: Hardback
$150.35

"Who has ruled New York? Has power become more concentrated--or more widely and democratically dispersed--in American...  Read More >>

Buenos Aires: 400 Years

Buenos Aires: 400 Years

Author: Stanley R. Ross ,  Thomas F. McGann
ISBN: 9780292729520
Format: Paperback
$41.95

This informative volume derives from a conference held at the Library of Congress in September 1980, which was dedicated...  Read More >>

Cities, Poverty and Development

Cities, Poverty and Development

Author: Alan Gilbert ,  Josef Gugler
ISBN: 9780198740841
Format: Paperback
$34.95

This book discusses some of the key issues relating to urban development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.  Read More >>

Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities

Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities

Author: Katharine L Bradbury ,  Anthony Downs
ISBN: 9780815710530
Format: Paperback
$42.99

"During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow....  Read More >>

Models of Intraurban Residential Relocation

Models of Intraurban Residential Relocation

Author: F. W. Porrell
ISBN: 9780898380897
Format: Hardback
$488.40

Most of the research incorporated in this monograph was initially undertaken as part of the author's Ph.D. In addition,...  Read More >>

Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities

Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities

Author: Katharine L. Bradbury ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780815710547
Format: Hardback
$97.55

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Urban Villagers, Rev & Exp Ed

Urban Villagers, Rev & Exp Ed

Author: Herbert J. Gans
ISBN: 9780029112403
Format: Paperback
$76.53

Hebert Gans’ study of Italian Americans in Boston’s West In is one of the classics of contemporary sociology. Providing...  Read More >>

Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns

Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns

Author: Roger M. Olien ,  Diana Davids
ISBN: 9780803235502
Format: Paperback
$44.95

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Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts

Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts...

Author: Robert Staughton Lynd ,  Helen Merrell Lynd
ISBN: 9780156595513
Format: Paperback
$76.56

This sequel to Middletown returns to the same community in 1935, to examine the changes brought about by the prosperity...  Read More >>

The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889: The Metropolitan Board of Works, the Vestries, and the City Corporation

The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889: The Metropolitan...

Author: Lord David Owen (University of Southampton) ,  Roy MacLeod
ISBN: 9780674863453
Format: Hardback
$102.96

Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government.Owen...  Read More >>

American Urban History

American Urban History

Author: Callow ,  Alexander B Jr Callow
ISBN: 9780195029819
Format: Paperback
$266.00

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Working-Class Life: The “American Standard” in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913

Working-Class Life: The “American Standard” in Comparative...

Author: Peter R. Shergold
ISBN: 9780822985563
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This book offers a comparative study of working-class life in Pittsburgh, PA and Birmingham, England in the early...  Read More >>

The Irish In Philadelphia – Ten Generations of Urban Experience

The Irish In Philadelphia – Ten Generations of Urban...

Author: Dennis Clark
ISBN: 9780877222279
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Traces the history of Philadelphia's 200-year-old Irish community.  Read More >>

The Long Default

The Long Default

Author: William K Tabb
ISBN: 9780853455721
Format: Paperback
$38.99

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Neighborhoods and Urban Development

Neighborhoods and Urban Development

Author: Anthony Downs
ISBN: 9780815719199
Format: Paperback
$42.99

""" American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods. Thousands of residents move every year...  Read More >>

Urban Social Structure

Urban Social Structure

Author: James M. Beshers
ISBN: 9780313227141
Format: Hardback
$90.00

Carefully limiting his analysis to the correlation of residential proximity and marriage, social cast/class structures,...  Read More >>

Housing Associations in England: A Model for Success in America

Housing Associations in England: A Model for Success...

Author: Otto Hetzel ,  Michael Szymanski
ISBN: 9780878553310
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Winning Designs: The Competitions Renaissance

Winning Designs: The Competitions Renaissance

Author: George G. Wynne
ISBN: 9780878558933
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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The Highway and the City

The Highway and the City

Author: Lewis Mumford
ISBN: 9780313227479
Format: Hardback
$131.00

A collection of essays by the respected social commentator on some problems faced by cities such as New York, Philadelphia,...  Read More >>

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