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

• Author(s): Jan Lin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book exa...

• Author(s): Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan | Sumana Bandyopadhyay • Publisher: Routledge India • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the mos...

• Author(s): Saswat Samay Das • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ReferenceFrom the Back CoverThis collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in u...

• Author(s): John Garrard | Ekaterina Mikhailova • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and...

• Author(s): Wei Li • Publisher: University of Hawaii Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Hawaii Press • BISAC: Human GeographyWinner of the 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies This innovative work prov...

• Author(s): Katherine Giuffre • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of liv...

• Author(s): Derya Özkan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EnvironmentalThis collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish c...

• Author(s): Efrat Eizenberg • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralLittle-known, and hidden between skyscrapers and wide avenues, some 650 community gardens dot New York City. Set within one of the dense...

• Author(s): Jason H. Dormady • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoIn the decades following the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Guadalajara faced immense demographic a...

• Author(s): Billy Fields • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAdaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities outlines and explains adaptation urbanism as a theoretical framewo...

• Author(s): Norman Walzer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningCommunity visioning is key in helping local public officials and community leaders create a flourishing future for t...

• Author(s): Joongsub Kim • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis book investigates multi-disciplinary approaches to addressing the health of disadvantaged communities through equitable com...

• Author(s): Musa W. Dube | Senzokuhle D. Setume | Tirelo Modie-Moroka • Publisher: African Sun Media • Publisher Imprint: African Sun Media • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyThe book takes us to women-centred events in Gaborone, the capi...

• Author(s): Nick Wates • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningGrowing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerf...

• Author(s): Gary Bridge | Tim Butler | Loretta Lees • Publisher: Policy Press • Publisher Imprint: Policy Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentEncouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban pol...

• Author(s): William M Lafferty • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanA presentation of detailed comparative research into the implementation in 11 European countries of Local Agenda 21 - t...

• Author(s): James Scorer • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaAddresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban future...

• Author(s): Shih-Lung Shaw • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book addresses how accelerating advances in information and communication technology, mobile technology, and location-...

• Author(s): John Kirk • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufact...

• Author(s): Paula Allen-Meares | Trina R. Shanks | Larry M. Gant • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR • BISAC: Social WorkUrban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fal...

• Author(s): Nick Wates • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentWant to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what...

• Author(s): Melvin Delgado • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareWhile crime is down around the country, many inner city youth continue to die as a result of...

• Author(s): Robin Faith Bachin • Publisher: Temple University Press • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press • BISAC: HistoryColleges and universities in urban centers have often leveraged their locales to appeal to students while also takin...

• Author(s): Taha Chaiechi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyFrom the Back CoverThis edited volume presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Business, Economi...

• Author(s): Gary Gaston | Christine M. Kreyling • Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press • Publisher Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press • BISAC: Public HealthThe shape we give to our city, in turn, shapes us. The form that Americans began to g...

• Author(s): Kristina Smock • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareIn cities across the US, grass-roots organizations are working to revitalize p...

• Author(s): Liwen Hou • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public FinanceIntroduction.- A Comparison of Concepts and Patterns in Primary-level Social Governance.- Theoretical Basis and the Perspective for Analysis.- Shang...

• Author(s): Shih-Lung Shaw • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book addresses how accelerating advances in information and communication technology, mobile technology, and location-...

• Author(s): Kristina Smock • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareIn cities across the US, grass-roots organizations are working to revitalize p...

• Author(s): Laurie LaChance | Laurie Carpenter | Mary Emery • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness work as well as a number o...

• Author(s): Anna Steigemann • Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Saint Philip Street Press • BISAC: Human GeographyIn this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined...

• Author(s): Eric James • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSeminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, course: Ur...

• Author(s): Olivia Vanmechelen | Pui Hing Chau | Rebecca L. Jones • Publisher: Policy Press • Publisher Imprint: Policy Press • BISAC: GerontologyAs the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensi...

• Author(s): Taiwo Afuape | Inga-Britt Krause • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentUrban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services weaves together different strands of mental healt...

• Author(s): Gladys Marie Kammerer | Charles D. Farris | John M. Degrove • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: GeneralAdditional Author Is Alfred B. Clubok. Edited By Dayton David McKean.