Urban communities books

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Collusion, Local Governments and Development in China: A Reflection on the China Model

Collusion, Local Governments and Development in China:...

Author: Huihua Nie ,  Haifeng Li
ISBN: 9789811353079
Format: Paperback
$263.97

By analyzing the interactions between China’s central government and its local governments and enterprises, this...  Read More >>

Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore

Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore...

Author: Tai Wei Lim
ISBN: 9789811352195
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and...  Read More >>

Cities Network Along the Silk Road: The Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2017

Cities Network Along the Silk Road: The Global Urban...

Author: Pengfei Ni ,  Marco Kamiya
ISBN: 9789811352430
Format: Paperback
$290.37

By empirically assessing the competitiveness of 505 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives,...  Read More >>

Participatory Design and Self-building in Shared Urban Open Spaces: Community Gardens and Casitas in New York City

Participatory Design and Self-building in Shared Urban...

Author: Carolin Mees
ISBN: 9783030092511
Format: Paperback
$369.57

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Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City

Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s...

Author: Derese G. Kassa
ISBN: 9781498570992
Format: Hardback
$228.00

This book sheds light on Africa’s urban refugee spaces and is an expose and critical analysis of state–refugee relations...  Read More >>

How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition

How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin...

Author: Tanya Whitehouse
ISBN: 9783030030643
Format: Hardback
$184.77

This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value.  It draws on a variety...  Read More >>

Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking

Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Urban Interfaces,...

Author: Marcus Foth ,  Martin Brynskov
ISBN: 9789811357275
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together...  Read More >>

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions...

Author: Henrik Ernstson ,  Erik Swyngedouw
ISBN: 9781138629189
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew...  Read More >>

Disassembled Cities: Social and Spatial Strategies to Reassemble Communities

Disassembled Cities: Social and Spatial Strategies to...

Author: Elizabeth L. Sweet (Temple University, USA) ,  Tim Imeokparia (The University of Chicago at Illinois, USA)
ISBN: 9781138097988
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book’s analysis is not only focused on the urban, political, and economic effects of contemporary capitalism,...  Read More >>

The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy

The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets,...

Author: Christopher K. Andrews
ISBN: 9781498543781
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book uses empirical data to qualify contemporary social concerns regarding automation and jobs, while raising...  Read More >>

Social Justice and the City

Social Justice and the City

Author: Nik Heynen
ISBN: 9781138322745
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future

No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of...

Author: Samuel I Schwartz
ISBN: 9781549149443
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$171.57

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways,...  Read More >>

Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture

Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure,...

Author: Elleke Boehmer ,  Dominic Davies
ISBN: 9783319913872
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary...  Read More >>

Global Research of Cities: A Case of Chengdu

Global Research of Cities: A Case of Chengdu

Author: Peter Taylor ,  Pengfei Ni
ISBN: 9789811357374
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and...  Read More >>

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Society

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Society

Author: Sun-Kee Hong ,  Nobukazu Nakagoshi
ISBN: 9783030089658
Format: Paperback
$475.17

The research category of the landscape ecology, which researches the structure, functions, and the spatio-temporal...  Read More >>

Smart Cities, Smart Future: Showcasing Tomorrow

Smart Cities, Smart Future: Showcasing Tomorrow

Author: Mike Barlow ,  Cornelia Levy-Bencheton
ISBN: 9781119516187
Format: Hardback
$82.95

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world...  Read More >>

Cuz: An American Tragedy

Cuz: An American Tragedy

Author: Danielle Allen (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781631494949
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness...  Read More >>

The Taming of New York's Washington Square: A Wild Civility

The Taming of New York's Washington Square: A Wild Civility...

Author: Erich Goode
ISBN: 9781479898213
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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Sacred Shelter: Thirteen Journeys of Homelessness and Healing

Sacred Shelter: Thirteen Journeys of Homelessness and...

Author: Susan Greenfield
ISBN: 9780823281190
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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