Search results for “[Subject: urban-community]”

• Author(s): Hans Kummer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis is a social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of three nations--the United States, Sweden, and England. The ...

• Author(s): Laura Wolf-Powers • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-...

• Author(s): Pauline Dixon | Steve Humble • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe book investigates urban life in the slums of Delhi, demonstrating how individuals and communities self-organize to solve...

• Author(s): Julia Sattler • Publisher: Transcript Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Publishing • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanHow did American cities change during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? This timely publication integ...

• Author(s): Michael Carley | Paul Jenkins | Harry Smith • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and develo...

• Author(s): Sushmita Pati • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWe live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of r...

• Author(s): Julie Clark • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis edited collection investigates the human dimension of urban renewal, using a range of case studies from Africa, Asia, Eur...

• Author(s): Matthew Melko | Thomas E. Koebernick | David Michael Orenstein • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book examines the nature of community as it curre...

• Author(s): Harley Carl Schreck • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: GerontologyCommunity and Caring presents a vivid picture of the changing patterns of help-giving and help-receivin...

• Author(s): Laura Wolf-Powers • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanA chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn t...

• Author(s): Talja Blokland • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCommunity is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on exis...

• Author(s): Gary Gumpert | Giorgia Aiello | Matteo Tarantino • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanHow human meanings, practices an...

• Author(s): Robert B. Fairbanks • Publisher: Ohio State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Ohio State University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanMaking Sense of the City explores the ways in which urbanites have attempted to confront the chal...

• Author(s): Justin Colson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - MedievalCities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban c...

• Author(s): Paul J. Maginn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThe concepts of community consultation and participation have come to dominate academic and policy debate about urban ...

• Author(s): Gary Gumpert | Giorgia Aiello | Matteo Tarantino • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanHow human meanings, practices an...

• Author(s): Aditya Mohanty • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book spotlights the emergent patterns of community leadership. It focuses on the theoretical concepts of political sociology and its ...

• Author(s): Jamie O'Brien • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book offers state-of-the-art 'tools for thinking' for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses o...

• Author(s): Basudatta Sarkar | Haimanti Banerji • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Architecture & Interior DesignsThis book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps...

• Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that...

• Author(s): Gregory M. Fulkerson | Alexander R. Thomas | Elizabeth Seale • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Sociology - RuralStudies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society examines the ways b...

• Author(s): Sara N. Hines • Publisher: Hines Art Press • Publisher Imprint: Hines Art Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningCottage Communities is a study of the American Camp Meeting Movement, from 1786-present, showing how the planning, ...

• Author(s): Tyler Schafer • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanTyler Schafer examines a fledgling Las Vegas community garden and uses it as a case study to identify the ways group cultures c...

• Author(s): Gary Gumpert | Yong-Chan Kim | Matthew D. Matsaganis • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe Communication Ecology of...

• Author(s): Daniel Holland • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThis book is about the grassroots community revitalization movement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and L...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Reiner • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThis book is a volume in the P...

• Author(s): Daniel G. Parolek • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Codes & StandardsA comprehensive, illustrative guide to Form-Based Codes "This volume describes in clear argument and significant detail the issues and tec...

• Author(s): Paul E. Peterson • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press • Publisher Imprint: Brookings Institution Press • BISAC: Sociology - Urban"America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sh...

• Author(s): Jonathan Barnett • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanImplementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urb...

• Author(s): Carley Michael • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often as...

• Author(s): Gary Gumpert | Yong-Chan Kim | Matthew D. Matsaganis • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe Communication Ecology of...

• Author(s): Ritanjan Das • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: World - AsianThis book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India. ...

• Author(s): John Abbott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Regional PlanningWhile the rate of urbanisation in the developing world has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, gove...

• Author(s): Eduardo E. Lozano • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentHaving perceived a widespread failure of most community-scale pla...

• Author(s): Eric S. Zeemering • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentBaltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government poli...

• Author(s): Roy Lubove • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book explores the aspects of American history and the process of interpreting historical evidence. Professor Lubove discusses phases of urban...