Urban communities books

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The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great

The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to...

Author: Des Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781541674509
Format: Hardback
$79.20

A sociologist explores why ""green cities"" won't fix everything--and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is...  Read More >>

Placemaking for Green Urban Regeneration

Placemaking for Green Urban Regeneration

Author: Israa Hanafi Mahmoud
ISBN: 9783031154102
Format: Paperback
$232.85

In the first part of the book, insights on analytical methods, planning strategies and shared governance examples...  Read More >>

Cities and Society: Entanglements and Implications for Urban Life

Cities and Society: Entanglements and Implications for...

Author: Lawrence Caudle
ISBN: 9781639877133
Format: Hardback
$443.49

A city refers to a large human settlement which not only acts as a driver of economic growth but also provides social...  Read More >>

An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture

An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture

Author: John McKnight ,  Walter Brueggemann
ISBN: 9798874639341
Format: Audio
$73.89

Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need...  Read More >>

An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture

An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture

Author: John McKnight ,  Walter Brueggemann
ISBN: 9798874639358
Format: Audio
$110.85

Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need...  Read More >>

The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives

The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social...

Author: Brian J. McCabe ,  Eva Rosen
ISBN: 9780226828534
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life. In 1947, the president of the American Sociological...  Read More >>

Smart Cities and the Poor: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive Urbanization in India

Smart Cities and the Poor: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive...

Author: Alok Mishra
ISBN: 9781032438870
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines urban governance, digital divide, poverty, unemployment, financial and social exclusion and presents...  Read More >>

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Author: Richard Sennett ,  Danny Campbell
ISBN: 9798212951456
Format: Audio
$110.85

A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future  Read More >>

De brief: Kortverhalen

De brief: Kortverhalen

Author: Kobe LeCompte
ISBN: 9789464870695
Format: Paperback
$62.91

Het zou je maar overkomen... Je bent een brief die van huis naar huis trekt en maar niet aankomt bij je bestemmeling....  Read More >>

The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives

The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social...

Author: Brian J. McCabe ,  Eva Rosen
ISBN: 9780226828510
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life. In 1947, the president of the American Sociological...  Read More >>

Urban Scenes

Urban Scenes

Author: Na'ou Liu ,  Yaohua Shi
ISBN: 9781638571872
Format: Paperback
$79.17

This collection is especially valuable since there are no more works from Liu because shortly after producing this...  Read More >>

Lowestoft, 1550-1750: Development and Change in a Suffolk Coastal Town

Lowestoft, 1550-1750: Development and Change in a Suffolk...

Author: David Butcher
ISBN: 9781837650767
Format: Paperback
$75.01

A detailed history of the town of Lowestoft, its society, economy, and topography.  Read More >>

The Last Heist

The Last Heist

Author: Zane Ziklag
ISBN: 9798223066323
Format: Paperback
$36.30

"In ""The Last Heist"" readers are invited to embark on an exhilarating journey through the world of high-stakes...  Read More >>

The Confession of Copeland Cane

The Confession of Copeland Cane

Author: Keenan Norris
ISBN: 9781951213909
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Self-Organization and Mobility Deprivation of Poor Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore

Self-Organization and Mobility Deprivation of Poor Workers...

Author: Joseph Cho-Yam Lau
ISBN: 9789819972647
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book focuses on the influence of socio-economic and land-use policies on the commuting problems and quality...  Read More >>

AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods: Community Collaboration

AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner,...

Author: Santana Alvarado
ISBN: 9798986096179
Format: Paperback
$39.57

AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods includes the first-person stories of seventeen...  Read More >>

Reflecting on the City Through Literature: Urban Spaces, Differences and Embodiments

Reflecting on the City Through Literature: Urban Spaces,...

Author: Daan Wesselman (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780367466237
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about...  Read More >>

Ghost Music

Ghost Music

Author: An Yu
ISBN: 9780802161253
Format: Paperback
$44.88

From the author of the ""original and electric"" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel...  Read More >>

A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs

A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and...

Author: Sanford Ikeda
ISBN: 9789819953646
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory....  Read More >>

The Fateful Dance: A Romance Novel for Women

The Fateful Dance: A Romance Novel for Women

Author: Olga Lumiere ,  Sharyl Watts
ISBN: 9798867659608
Format: Paperback
$31.42

Whoever said that truth will always prevail might not have known the depths of Noemi's secret... In this riveting...  Read More >>

A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs

A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and...

Author: Sanford Ikeda
ISBN: 9789819953615
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory....  Read More >>

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