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Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg
by Jo Beall  Publisher Comments For many people, Johannesburg has become the imagined spectre of our urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding...
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Hyper City: The Symbolic Side of Urbanism
by Ato Quayson Publisher Comments Urban Symbolic Ecology and hypercity studies are relatively new fields that examine the production, distribution, and consumption of symbols and meanings in urban space. This volume includes case studies of the cultural layers of symbolism in cities all...
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A better place to live :reshaping the American suburb
by Philip Langdon Book News Annotation Langdon continues the analysis of suburbs that he began in the 1988 Atlantic Monthly. He interviews residents and planners, and looks at, and shows how, the houses, streets, transportation, stores, and other factors contribute to the frustration of...
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Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation
by Sue Jones Publisher Comments This book takes a new look at the urban poverty debate at a time when there is renewed interest in urban poverty and management from the World Bank and other multilateral development agencies. It brings together contributions from academics...
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Children Living in Temporary Shelters: How Homelessness Effects Their Perception of Home (Children of Poverty)
by Alice Epps Publisher Comments Health care policy and proposals for national health care reform have become some of the most contentious political issues of the decade. Garland Publishing announces a new series addressing the most significant issues in the area of health care policy...
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Growing Up in an Urbanizing World
by Louise Chawla Publisher Comments Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This book, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities...
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The Limits of Boundaries: Why City-Regions Cannot Be Self-Governing
by Andrew Sancton Synopsis Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing. Self...
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The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theo
by Manuel Castells Publisher Comments This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his...
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Love, Sorrow, and Rage : Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence (99 Edition)
by Alisse Waterston Publisher Comments In this novel-like narrative of homelessness and hope, poor women share a table, their meals, and their intimacies with author Alisse Waterston....
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The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space (Contemporary Urban Studies,)
by Robert Rotenberg Publisher Comments This book presents a cross-cultural approach to the study of urban space. Essays written by major contributors in contemporary urban studies provide a range of case studies from Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe to address important...
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Cinema and the City (Studies in Urban & Social Change)
by Mark Sheil Publisher Comments This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies....
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The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
by David T. Beito Publisher Comments Challenges the orthodoxy that insists government alone can improve community life...
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Economic Development in American Cities: The Pursuit of an Equity Agenda
by Michael I. J. Bennett Synopsis Evaluates the impact of equity investments in five cities during the 1990s....
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Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology: Cities and Technology (Cities and Technology)
by Colin Chant Publisher Comments This textbook is designed to be used on its own or in association with the Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader in the same series. It is divided into three main sections: ancient cities; medieval and Early Modern cities; and pre-industrial cities...
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Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation (Asia's Global Cities)
by Marc Askew Publisher Comments Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as the most infamous...
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City, Capital and Water
by Malone Patrick Publisher Comments The urban waterfront is regarded as the frontier of contemporary urban development, easily attracting funding and drawing publicity. "City, Capital and Water" provides a detailed account of the redevelopment of urban waterfronts in major cities around...
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The Metropolitan Frontier
by Carl Abbott Book News Annotation Abbott (urban studies, Portland State U.) ranges from Honolulu to Houston, and Fargo to Fairbanks to show how the cities in the western US organize the vast spaces and connect them to the larger world economy. Going back to the boom of the 1940s, he...
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Rethinking Urban Parks Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity Public Space and Cultural Diversity
by Setha Low Publisher Comments Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become...
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Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History
by Michael H Ebner Publisher Comments They are the suburban jewels that crown one of the world's premier cities. Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff: together, they comprise the North Shore of Chicago, a social registry of eight...
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The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty and Environment in the 21st Century
by George Martine Publisher Comments Massive urban growth can either help pave the way to sustainable development or greatly exacerbate poverty and environmental stress. The outcome depends on decisions being made now. The first part of this book takes a critical look at the forecasting of...
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