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

• Author(s): Thomas Vinciguerra • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administration - HigherThe Columbia University Seminars, founded in 1945, represent a distinctive experiment in academi...

• Author(s): Amitava Mukherjee • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis title was first published in 2001. This text is an exercise in learning from the voices of the communities living in Indian vill...

• Author(s): John M. Carroll • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Web - Social MediaToday, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades every a...

• Author(s): Jelle Haemers • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismIn Communes and Conflict, Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers explore how revolt and rebellion became inte...

• Author(s): M. Joseph Sirgy • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. The cases describe communities that h...

• Author(s): Tom Borrup • Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance • Publisher Imprint: Fieldstone Alliance • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyPut the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and ...

• Author(s): Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen • Publisher: Northumbria University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northumbria University Press • BISAC: Regional StudiesForty years ago Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen came to Byker as a founder member...

• Author(s): Reid Ewing | Otto Clemente • Publisher: Island Press • Publisher Imprint: Island Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningWhat makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of Measuring Urban Design argue it's no...

• Author(s): Scott Greer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - General"Community" is a basic concept, perhaps the basic concept, in social science and in social philosophy. Its meanings are many and varied, ye...

• Author(s): Steve Graham | Simon Marvin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningTelecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between ...

• Author(s): Peter Westoby • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAt a time when inequalities are growing globally, when the pace of socio-economic transition...

• Author(s): Sabato Vinci • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: River Publishers • BISAC: Economics - GeneralIf we assume recession as being the starting point for policy challenges, then we can interpret these economic downturns...

• Author(s): Baby Professor • Publisher: Baby Professor • Publisher Imprint: Baby Professor • BISAC: Lifestyles - City & Town LifeDescribe the similarities and differences of the rural, urban and suburban communities. Use this book to underst...

• Author(s): National Municipal League • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyNational Municipal Review, Volume 31, presents a comprehensive look into the pressing issues and developments in m...

• Author(s): Luca Nitschke • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeThis book investigates how practices of community carsharing are influencing everyday mobility. It argues that hegemonic practices of au...

• Author(s): United States Congress House Committe • Publisher: Sagwan Press • Publisher Imprint: Sagwan Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilizatio...

• Author(s): Howard G. Schaller • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Environmental EconomicsIn 1962, the Committee on Urban Economics held a conference on public expenditure decisions in order to promote analy...

• Author(s): Nick Gallent | Steve Robinson • Publisher: Policy Press • Publisher Imprint: Policy Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanNeighbourhood planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a br...

• Author(s): Stephen Goldsmith • Publisher: Jossey-Bass • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass • BISAC: Government & BusinessFrom the Inside Flap"Urban government in the United States today is at a critical juncture. Never before over the last cent...

• Author(s): Kendi Howells Douglas • Publisher: Urban Loft Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Urban Loft Publishers • BISAC: Christian Ministry - MissionsCommunity Churches is not primarily an academic treatise on the nature and purpose of the churc...

• Author(s): Vajra Watson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformFew problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide...

• Author(s): Beverly McElmurry | Cynthia Tyska | Randy Spreen Parker • Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Jones & Bartlett Publishers • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryExplores the efficacy of primary care concepts in ...

• Author(s): John Newson | Elizabeth Newson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Children'S StudiesJohn and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. ...

• Author(s): Vania Ceccato • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CriminologyCrime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This bo...

• Author(s): Brent Hales • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIncreasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebui...

• Author(s): Curtis Murphy • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFrom Citizens to Subjects challenges the common assertion in historiography that Enlighten...

• Author(s): Simon Slavin | Terry Mizrahi Phd | John D. Morrison • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentCommunity Organization and Social Administration presents a uniqu...

• Author(s): Alice McIntyre • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and...

• Author(s): Papa Sak • Publisher: Esoteric Disciples Visual Communications • Publisher Imprint: Esoteric Disciples Visual Communications • BISAC: UrbanGrumpy-Ru is a gangster from the East Side of Compton. Some things are easy for him while othe...

• Author(s): Roger Katan | Ronald Shiffman • Publisher: New Village Press • Publisher Imprint: New Village Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningWith case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa...

• Author(s): Dr (Er) Om Prakash • Publisher: Notion Press • Publisher Imprint: Notion Press • BISAC: Administration - GeneralThe Docklands Light Railway was initiated in the 1980s to expand the mobility of a growing region of the Docklands in Lon...

• Author(s): Ekta Dhariwal • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Apple Academic Press • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & TourismAddresses the need to develop event tourism sustainably for effective local community de...

• Author(s): Willie J. Greer Kimmons • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: Administration - GeneralThe manuscript will carefully discuss the beginning and turbulent struggle of Wayne County Community College in the 60...

• Author(s): Carlos Smaniotto Costa • Publisher: CRC Press • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Renaturing Urban Rivers explores and analyses the relationship between river recovery and...

• Author(s): Tore Øivin Sager • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningDiscussing some of the most vexing criticism of communicative planning theory (CPT), this book goes on to suggest...

• Author(s): University of Kansas Dept of Sociol • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOriginally published in 1921, this fascinating social survey provides a detailed look at life i...