Urban & municipal planning books

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Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance After Katrina

Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance...

Author: Aaron Schneider
ISBN: 9781517901660
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Through interviewsand surveys, Aaron Schneider contrasts city sectors prioritized during post-Katrinarecovery with...  Read More >>

Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance After Katrina

Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance...

Author: Aaron Schneider
ISBN: 9781517901653
Format: Hardback
$162.00

Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no...  Read More >>

Public Space Unbound: Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition

Public Space Unbound: Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political...

Author: Sabine Knierbein ,  Tihomir Viderman
ISBN: 9781138213098
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Public Space Unbound brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to examine spaces, conditions and processes...  Read More >>

Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View from the Street

Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View...

Author: Jerome Krase ,  Judith N. DeSena
ISBN: 9781498512572
Format: Paperback
$111.00

Krase and DeSena offer a comprehensive view from the street of two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts...  Read More >>

Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities

Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities...

Author: David Bissell (Associate Director, The University of Melbourne) ,  Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy)
ISBN: 9780262534963
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An exploration of the ways that everyday life in the city is defined by commuting.  Read More >>

Artistic Utopias of Revolt: Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol

Artistic Utopias of Revolt: Claremont Road, Reclaim...

Author: Julia Ramírez Blanco
ISBN: 9783319714219
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since...  Read More >>

The Divided City and the Grassroots: The (Un)making of Ethnic Divisions in Mostar

The Divided City and the Grassroots: The (Un)making...

Author: Giulia Carabelli
ISBN: 9789811077777
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Focusing on Mostar, a city in Bosnia Herzegovina that became the epitome of ethnic divisions during the Yugoslav...  Read More >>

A Research Agenda for Cities

A Research Agenda for Cities

Author: John Rennie Short
ISBN: 9781785363979
Format: Paperback
$95.00

This book will be an indispensable and accessible guide for students and scholars working in urban studies, urban...  Read More >>

Working together for local integration of migrants and refugees in Altena

Working together for local integration of migrants and...

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
ISBN: 9789264299214
Format: Paperback
$110.88

This report presents the way Altena and its state and non-state partners are addressing migrant integration issues...  Read More >>

The Syntax of City Space: American Urban Grids

The Syntax of City Space: American Urban Grids

Author: Mark David Major ,  Ruth Conroy Dalton
ISBN: 9781138301573
Format: Paperback
$135.00

The Syntax of City Space: American Urban Grids explores the urban morphology of American cities. It argues American...  Read More >>

Heritage Sites in Contemporary China: Cultural Policies and Management Practices

Heritage Sites in Contemporary China: Cultural Policies...

Author: Luca Zan (University of Bologna, Italy) ,  Bing Yu
ISBN: 9781138054622
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Archeological Sites in Contemporary Chinese Cities investigates archeological development and cultural heritage...  Read More >>

Porous City: From Metaphor to Urban Agenda

Porous City: From Metaphor to Urban Agenda

Author: Sophie Wolfrum
ISBN: 9783035616019
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Some time ago, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis used the term ""porosity"" with reference to Naples’ urban characteristics...  Read More >>

Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future: The Untapped Potential of Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability

Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future: The Untapped...

Author: Simon Elias Bibri
ISBN: 9783319739809
Format: Hardback
$739.17

This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and...  Read More >>

How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside

How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside

Author: Shaun Spiers
ISBN: 9781447339991
Format: Paperback
$22.95

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Urban Public Spaces: From Planned Policies to Everyday Politics (Illustrated with Brazilian Case Studies)

Urban Public Spaces: From Planned Policies to Everyday...

Author: Lucia Capanema Alvares ,  Jorge Luiz Barbosa
ISBN: 9783319742526
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or...  Read More >>

Poland

Poland

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
ISBN: 9789264289888
Format: Paperback
$82.50

- Foreword - Acronyms and abbreviations - Executive summary - Assessment and recommendations - Profile of rural...  Read More >>

Hobophobia: The Politics of Fear

Hobophobia: The Politics of Fear

Author: Bill Boudier
ISBN: 9780692678374
Format: Hardback
$105.57

HOBOPHOBIA: THE POLITICS OF FEAR documents a story of a community's cultural dislike of homeless people, hobophobia...  Read More >>

Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.

Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing...

Author: Amanda Huron
ISBN: 9781517901974
Format: Paperback
$37.99

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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City

A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home...

Author: Drew Philp
ISBN: 9781476797991
Format: Paperback
$47.49

""A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500,...  Read More >>

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