Urban communities books

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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago

City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago

Author: Robert G. Spinney
ISBN: 9781501748967
Format: Paperback
$60.59

A history connecting Chicago's swampy beginnings in the 1600s, its growth as the world's ""hog butcher"", and its...  Read More >>

Patsy: A Novel

Patsy: A Novel

Author: Nicole Dennis-Benn (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781631497896
Format: Paperback
$32.25

Heralded for writing “deeply memorable . . . women” (Jennifer Senior, New York Times), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces...  Read More >>

City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago

City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago

Author: Robert G. Spinney
ISBN: 9781501749599
Format: Hardback
$131.87

A history connecting Chicago's swampy beginnings in the 1600s, its growth as the world's ""hog butcher"", and its...  Read More >>

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings...

Author: Emily Anthes ,  Suzie Althens
ISBN: 9781662002823
Format: Audio
$131.97

A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment  Read More >>

Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film

Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan...

Author: Oliver Bock
ISBN: 9781622736805
Format: Hardback
$203.28

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Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City

Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City

Author: Joy White
ISBN: 9781912248681
Format: Paperback
$26.99

An uncompromising wake-up call. Joy White tells uncomfortable truths and blows apart our understanding of racism,...  Read More >>

Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit

Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building...

Author: Rebekah Farrugia ,  Kellie D. Hay
ISBN: 9780520305328
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Detroit, Michigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia...  Read More >>

Mind and Places: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Design of Contemporary City

Mind and Places: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the...

Author: Anna Anzani
ISBN: 9783030455651
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book explores the contributions of psychological, neuroscientific and philosophical perspectives to the design...  Read More >>

The Duplex: Can They Fool A Whole City?

The Duplex: Can They Fool A Whole City?

Author: Lucky Stevens
ISBN: 9781647041007
Format: Paperback
$28.44

"""...a perfect, entertaining and exceptional novel."" - Reader's Favorite Los Angeles, 1956. Shangri-La. Palm...  Read More >>

The Mathematics of Urban Morphology

The Mathematics of Urban Morphology

Author: Luca D'Acci ,  Michael Batty
ISBN: 9783030123833
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This edited volume provides an essential resource for urban morphology, the study of urban forms and structures,...  Read More >>

Law and the New Urban Agenda

Law and the New Urban Agenda

Author: Nestor M. Davidson ,  Geeta Tewari
ISBN: 9780367188733
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker

Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram...

Author: Ron Howell
ISBN: 9780823288694
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Watermark: The Broken Bell series

Watermark: The Broken Bell series

Author: Elise Schiller
ISBN: 9781684630363
Format: Paperback
$29.99

When Angel Ferente-a teen with a dysfunctional home life who has been struggling to care for her sisters even as...  Read More >>

Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of...

Author: Felix Ringel
ISBN: 9781789208054
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not...  Read More >>

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings...

Author: Emily Anthes ,  Suzie Althens
ISBN: 9798228085541
Format: Audio
$110.85

Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend ninety percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices,...  Read More >>

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings...

Author: Emily Anthes ,  Suzie Althens
ISBN: 9798228085565
Format: Audio
$110.85

Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend ninety percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices,...  Read More >>

Wretchedness: Winner of the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

Wretchedness: Winner of the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation...

Author: Andrzej Tichy ,  Nichola Smalley
ISBN: 9781911508762
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Beauty and poverty; violence, addiction and brotherhood. Written with unstoppable flow, Wretchedness mixes high...  Read More >>

Water-Related Urbanization and Locality: Protecting, Planning and Designing Urban Water Environments in a Sustainable Way

Water-Related Urbanization and Locality: Protecting,...

Author: Fang Wang ,  Martin Prominski
ISBN: 9789811535062
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book discusses the protection, planning, and design of sustainable urban water environments.  Read More >>

Navigating Differences: Integration in Singapore

Navigating Differences: Integration in Singapore

Author: Terence Chong
ISBN: 9789814881265
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Gathers the best social scientists in Singapore to examine issues of ethnicity, religion, class, and culture in...  Read More >>

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