Urban communities books

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Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays...

Author: Edvige Giunta ,  Mary Anne Trasciatti
ISBN: 9781613321508
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Candid and intimate accounts of the factory-worker tragedy that shaped American labor rights On March 25, 1911,...  Read More >>

The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile

The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making,...

Author: Miguel Pérez
ISBN: 9781503614963
Format: Hardback
$343.20

In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the...  Read More >>

Talk About Proust

Talk About Proust

Author: Peter Raposo
ISBN: 9798201114053
Format: Paperback
$27.14

A young poet travels to Lisbon and finds himself being pursued by an old widow without even knowing why. A man goes...  Read More >>

All Women Are Mortal

All Women Are Mortal

Author: Peter Raposo
ISBN: 9798201836436
Format: Paperback
$29.73

Michael Ferreira is a failed poet, not to mention depressed as hell. Mentally abused as a child, he spends his time...  Read More >>

Pussy Foot

Pussy Foot

Author: Peter Raposo
ISBN: 9798201310660
Format: Paperback
$28.44

The end is arriving, or maybe not. Meanwhile, the poet Joanne Vanderberg, author of Semen and other classics, is...  Read More >>

Morningside Heights: A Novel

Morningside Heights: A Novel

Author: Joshua Henkin
ISBN: 9780525566632
Format: Paperback
$44.88

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Book • When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she...  Read More >>

Co-curating the City: Universities and Urban Heritage Past and Future

Co-curating the City: Universities and Urban Heritage...

Author: Clare Melhuish ,  Henric Benesch
ISBN: 9781800081833
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Nachbarschaften in der Stadtentwicklung: Idealisierungen, Alltagsräume und professionelles Handlungswissen

Nachbarschaften in der Stadtentwicklung: Idealisierungen,...

Author: Matthias Drilling ,  Simone Tappert
ISBN: 9783658361006
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Die Bedeutung von Nachbarschaft für das alltägliche Zusammenleben ist bis heute ungebrochen. Die in diesem Buch...  Read More >>

Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach

Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of...

Author: Ioana Florea ,  Agnes Gagyi
ISBN: 9783030974077
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Instead of searching for unilinear narratives connecting structural tensions to politicized claims, the book offers...  Read More >>

Energy Efficient Affordable Housing: Policy Design and Implementation in Canadian Cities

Energy Efficient Affordable Housing: Policy Design and...

Author: Sasha Tsenkova
ISBN: 9783030695651
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book provides the first comparative assessment of the energy-efficiency retrofit programs in the social housing...  Read More >>

The Many Faces of the City: Exploring the Metropolis

The Many Faces of the City: Exploring the Metropolis...

Author: Stefan Litz
ISBN: 9780949313119
Format: Paperback
$77.63

This book offers a collection of essays that shed light on the urban situation from a variety of scholarly angles....  Read More >>

Transforming Public Space through Play

Transforming Public Space through Play

Author: Gregor Mews
ISBN: 9780367680053
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach

Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of...

Author: Ioana Florea ,  Agnes Gagyi
ISBN: 9783030974046
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Instead of searching for unilinear narratives connecting structural tensions to politicized claims, the book offers...  Read More >>

Urban Biodiversity and Built Environment: Case Study of Shanghai

Urban Biodiversity and Built Environment: Case Study...

Author: Jing Gan
ISBN: 9789811609510
Format: Paperback
$446.16

It argues that urban biodiversity is a key indicator for assessing urban ecosystem services. On this basis, the...  Read More >>

Urban Ecology in the Global South

Urban Ecology in the Global South

Author: Charlie M. Shackleton ,  Sarel S. Cilliers
ISBN: 9783030676520
Format: Paperback
$340.26

Against the background of unprecedented rates of urbanisation in the Global South, leading to massive social, economic...  Read More >>

Urban Challenges in the Globalizing Middle-East: Social Value of Public Spaces

Urban Challenges in the Globalizing Middle-East: Social...

Author: Simona Azzali ,  Silvia Mazzetto
ISBN: 9783030697976
Format: Paperback
$318.26

This publication aims to investigate the nature of social life in public and urban spaces in the cities of the Middle...  Read More >>

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9789356562707
Format: Paperback
$87.09

Orphaned Oliver lives in a cold, grim workhouse, until the day he dares to ask for more. Escaping to London, Oliver...  Read More >>

Transforming Public Space through Play

Transforming Public Space through Play

Author: Gregor Mews
ISBN: 9780367680084
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book provides an empirical analysis of the concept of play as a form of spatial practice in urban public spaces....  Read More >>

Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Space in the 21st Century

Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Space in the...

Author: Sébastien Darchen ,  Damien Charrieras
ISBN: 9789813347434
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia,...  Read More >>

Made in L.A. Vol. 4: Beyond the Precipice

Made in L.A. Vol. 4: Beyond the Precipice

Author: Cody Sisco ,  Allison Rose
ISBN: 9781953954015
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Made in L.A. Vol. 4: Beyond the Precipice shines a light on Angelenos who have gone past the point of no return....  Read More >>

Fear City Cinema: The Dark Side of New York in Film, 1965-1995

Fear City Cinema: The Dark Side of New York in Film,...

Author: Roger A. Salerno
ISBN: 9781476680903
Format: Paperback
$83.60

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