Urban communities books

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Settler Colonial City: Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis

Settler Colonial City: Racism and Inequity in Postwar...

Author: David Hugill
ISBN: 9781517904791
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis""--  Read More >>

Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang

Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure...

Author: Lukas Ley
ISBN: 9781517908874
Format: Hardback
$270.00

""A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit the ""chronic present"" of a slow-motion natural...  Read More >>

The Inclusive City: The Theory and Practice of Creating Shared Urban Prosperity

The Inclusive City: The Theory and Practice of Creating...

Author: Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko ,  Martin de Jong
ISBN: 9783030613679
Format: Paperback
$142.29

The authors argue that as inclusion involves a range of inter-group and intragroup tensions, the unifying role of...  Read More >>

Translocal Ageing in the Global East: Bulgaria’s Abandoned Elderly

Translocal Ageing in the Global East: Bulgaria’s Abandoned...

Author: Deljana Iossifova
ISBN: 9783030608255
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Drawing on dozens of interviews with older people in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia as well as a village in the Bulgarian...  Read More >>

Street-Level Bureaucrats' Impact on the Emergence of Local Governance Networks

Street-Level Bureaucrats' Impact on the Emergence of...

Author: Lisa Fischer
ISBN: 9783658361525
Format: Paperback
$155.22

This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats...  Read More >>

Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia

Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century...

Author: Xin Gu ,  Michael Kho Lim
ISBN: 9783030462932
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book responds to the lack of Asian representation in creative cities literature. It aims to use the creative...  Read More >>

Advanced Introduction to Gentrification

Advanced Introduction to Gentrification

Author: Chris Hamnett
ISBN: 9781839106873
Format: Paperback
$47.50

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences,...  Read More >>

Advanced Introduction to Gentrification

Advanced Introduction to Gentrification

Author: Chris Hamnett
ISBN: 9781839106859
Format: Hardback
$228.00

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences,...  Read More >>

City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis: A Multidisciplinary Approach

City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis: A Multidisciplinary...

Author: Francisco J. Carrillo ,  Cathy Garner
ISBN: 9781800883659
Format: Hardback
$361.00

Exploring the ways that contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted, this multidisciplinary book warns...  Read More >>

Analysis of the Development of Beijing, 2019

Analysis of the Development of Beijing, 2019

Author: Beijing Academy of Social Sciences
ISBN: 9789811566813
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2018, both...  Read More >>

Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China: Towards a New Dialogue

Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China:...

Author: Gwilym Pryce ,  Ya Ping Wang
ISBN: 9783030745431
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation.  With the goal...  Read More >>

The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality

The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality...

Author: Robert Lanza ,  Matej Pavsic
ISBN: 9781953295804
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Managing Cities at Night: A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy

Managing Cities at Night: A Practitioner Guide to the...

Author: Michele Acuto (The University of Melbourne) ,  Andreina Seijas (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781529218282
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Urban experts consider the future of night-time economies' governance during the pandemic and beyond in this scholarly...  Read More >>

Managing Cities at Night: A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy

Managing Cities at Night: A Practitioner Guide to the...

Author: Michele Acuto (The University of Melbourne) ,  Andreina Seijas (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781529218275
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Urban experts consider the future of night-time economies' governance during the pandemic and beyond in this scholarly...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring

Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring...

Author: Asef Bayat
ISBN: 9780674987890
Format: Hardback
$63.95

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Bibliolepsy

Bibliolepsy

Author: Gina Apostol ,  Rachel Coates
ISBN: 9798200920716
Format: Audio
$163.65

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter...  Read More >>

Radical Communications: Rebellious Expressions on Urban Walls

Radical Communications: Rebellious Expressions on Urban...

Author: Michael Tsangaris
ISBN: 9781793608567
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Radical Communications explores unauthorized messages we see in the cities we live in and their impact on the construction...  Read More >>

Co-Creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology

Co-Creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology...

Author: Shenja van der Graaf (University of Twente, The Netherlands) ,  Le Anh Nguyen Long (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781800436039
Format: Hardback
$124.17

Co-creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology highlights a more robust value-based perspective on public...  Read More >>

Chamor

Chamor

Author: Sheba Jose
ISBN: 9780670095063
Format: Hardback
$37.40

Simi was eager to share the story of her lion-hearted eighteen-year-old friend Chamor with her Aunt Jency. But when...  Read More >>

Smart Cities and Machine Learning in Urban Health

Smart Cities and Machine Learning in Urban Health

Author: J. Joshua Thomas ,  Vasiliki Geropanta
ISBN: 9781799871774
Format: Paperback
$435.60

Examines the ability of an area and its communities to recover quickly from difficulties; the rigidness and resistance...  Read More >>

Smart Cities and Machine Learning in Urban Health

Smart Cities and Machine Learning in Urban Health

Author: J. Joshua Thomas ,  Vasiliki Geropanta
ISBN: 9781799871767
Format: Hardback
$364.10

Examines the ability of an area and its communities to recover quickly from difficulties; the rigidness and resistance...  Read More >>

Chicago Street Corner Stories

Chicago Street Corner Stories

Author: Roger Wright
ISBN: 9780988904323
Format: Paperback
$26.27

Chicago Street Corner Stories include ghosts stories, love stories and stories of hope, all set in Chicago.  Read More >>

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health...

Author: Laurie Kaye Abraham ,  David A Ansell
ISBN: 9798212124737
Format: Audio
$65.97

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest...  Read More >>

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health...

Author: Laurie Kaye Abraham ,  David A Ansell
ISBN: 9798212124744
Format: Audio
$65.97

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest...  Read More >>

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