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How Cities Won the West : Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Carl Abbott
Hardcover - $75.95
Global Cities
Mark Abrahamson
Paperback - $71.95
Global Cities examines the distinctive commercial, residential, and spatial features of the major cities of the contemporary world--cities housing the financial and cultural activities that are most consequential for everyone, regardless of where the ...
From Urban Village to East Village : The Battle for New York's Lower East Side
Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Paperback - $65.95
Urban Process and Power
Peter J. Ambrose
Paperback - $111.95
b /b b i Urban Process and Power /i /b explains the processes of building environments, as well as the how they reflect dominant social, political and economic values and circumstances. Peter Ambrose argues that the changes in the environments during ...
Relocating Global Cities : From the Center to the Margins
M. Mark Amen
Paperback - $63.95
Drawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, Relocating Global Cities argues that all cities are globalizing in important ways. Case studies of Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila, Tampa, Sydney, Br ...
Africa's Urban Past
David Anderson
Paperback - $54.95
This survey reveals a remarkable depth of urbanization in African history.
Code of the Street : Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Elijah Anderson
Paperback - $30.95
This incisive book examines the code of decency, violence, and moral life of the inner city, and how it is a response to the lack of jobs, stigma of race, and rampant drug use. Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award.
Streetwise : Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community
Elijah Anderson
Paperback - $36.95
In a powerful, revealing portrait of city life, Anderson explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground— prime real estate in a racially changing nei ...