Urban communities books

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Power, Piety, and People: The Politics of Holy Cities in the Twenty-First Century

Power, Piety, and People: The Politics of Holy Cities...

Author: Michael Dumper (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780231184779
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Michael Dumper explores the causes and consequences of contemporary conflicts in holy cities. He offers five case...  Read More >>

Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires

Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday...

Author: Jacob Lederman
ISBN: 9781517908829
Format: Paperback
$66.32

Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What...  Read More >>

A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City

A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance...

Author: Alison Hope Alkon ,  Yuki Kato
ISBN: 9781479834433
Format: Hardback
$215.00

""""The Taste of Gentrification"" critically explores the relationship between food, power, and resistance in the...  Read More >>

Power, Piety, and People: The Politics of Holy Cities in the Twenty-First Century

Power, Piety, and People: The Politics of Holy Cities...

Author: Michael Dumper (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780231184762
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Michael Dumper explores the causes and consequences of contemporary conflicts in holy cities. He offers five case...  Read More >>

The Voucher Promise: ""Section 8"" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood

The Voucher Promise: ""Section 8"" and the Fate of an...

Author: Eva Rosen
ISBN: 9780691172569
Format: Hardback
$47.99

An in-depth look at America's largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of residents in one...  Read More >>

Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires

Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday...

Author: Jacob Lederman
ISBN: 9781517908812
Format: Hardback
$265.26

Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What...  Read More >>

Private Means

Private Means

Author: Cree Lefavour
ISBN: 9780802148889
Format: Hardback
$68.64

Spanning the course of a single summer, Private Means is acclaimed memoirist Cree LeFavour's sumptuous fiction debut--a...  Read More >>

City Schools and the American Dream 2: The Enduring Promise of Public Education

City Schools and the American Dream 2: The Enduring...

Author: Pedro A. Noguera ,  Esa Syeed
ISBN: 9780807763865
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Over a decade ago, the first edition of City Schools and the American Dream debuted just as reformers were gearing...  Read More >>

Tall Buildings and the City: Improving the Understanding of Placemaking, Imageability, and Tourism

Tall Buildings and the City: Improving the Understanding...

Author: Kheir Al-Kodmany
ISBN: 9789811560286
Format: Hardback
$232.85

The chaotic proliferation of skyscrapers in many cities around the world is contributing to a decline in placemaking....  Read More >>

The Social Order of Collective Action: The Wisconsin Uprising of 2011

The Social Order of Collective Action: The Wisconsin...

Author: Matthew Kearney
ISBN: 9781498568999
Format: Paperback
$82.99

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Global Tokyo: Heritage, Urban Redevelopment and the Transformation of Authenticity

Global Tokyo: Heritage, Urban Redevelopment and the...

Author: Jiewon Song
ISBN: 9789811534942
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This book examines heritage-led regeneration and decision-making processes in Tokyo’s urban centres of Nihonbashi...  Read More >>

A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford

A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbable Journey...

Author: Caylin Louis Moore
ISBN: 9781400209941
Format: Paperback
$50.13

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City Schools and the American Dream 2: The Enduring Promise of Public Education

City Schools and the American Dream 2: The Enduring...

Author: Pedro A. Noguera ,  Esa Syeed
ISBN: 9780807763872
Format: Hardback
$181.50

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Gentrification around the World, Volume II: Innovative Approaches

Gentrification around the World, Volume II: Innovative...

Author: Jerome Krase ,  Judith N. DeSena
ISBN: 9783030413408
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses...  Read More >>

Applied Geology: Approaches to Future Resource Management

Applied Geology: Approaches to Future Resource Management...

Author: Marina De Maio ,  Ashwani Kumar Tiwari
ISBN: 9783030439521
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book includes a careful selection of significant contributions from international experts that were presented...  Read More >>

A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford

A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbable Journey...

Author: Caylin Louis Moore
ISBN: 9781400209910
Format: Hardback
$71.25

The astounding, against-all-odds story of a young man's rise from abject poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to the...  Read More >>

Corte de Cinta: La épica de lo cotidiano. Compilación de cuentos, poesías y grandes relatos

Corte de Cinta: La épica de lo cotidiano. Compilación...

Author: Luis Perozo Cervantes ,  Ariel Cruz Pizarro
ISBN: 9798675878260
Format: Paperback
$47.49

"Corte de Cinta es el primer libro de Ariel Cruz Pizarro, una compilación de cuentos, poesías y novelas que tienen...  Read More >>

Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria

Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria

Author: Corinne Castel ,  Jan-Waalke Meyer
ISBN: 9782503551838
Format: Paperback
$348.48

133 b/w illus, 36 col illus & 16 b/w tbls.  Read More >>

Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia

Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia...

Author: Pascal Menoret
ISBN: 9781503612464
Format: Paperback
$68.64

The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia-on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing...  Read More >>

Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit

Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit...

Author: Alisa Perkins
ISBN: 9781479892013
Format: Paperback
$64.99

""""Muslim American City"" explores gender and religion in Metro Detroit""--  Read More >>

Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution

Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs,...

Author: Xuefei Ren
ISBN: 9780691203393
Format: Paperback
$54.99

An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts...  Read More >>

Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning: Methodological Reflections and Case Studies

Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning:...

Author: Giovanni Campeol ,  Otello Bergamo
ISBN: 9783030461799
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This volume gathers a selection of research contributions on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), including...  Read More >>

Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia

Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia...

Author: Pascal Menoret
ISBN: 9780804799805
Format: Hardback
$277.20

The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia-on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing...  Read More >>

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