Creating Community in the City

Ruth H Landman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Urban Studies
• Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in Washington's urban environment. Through ethnographic field work she learned that cooperation, soc... Lees meer

Homesteading in New York City, 1978-1993

Malve Von Hassell

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Urban Studies
• This is an ethnographic study of predominantly Puerto Rican low-income people on the Lower East Side of Manhattan who have been involved in the rehabi... Lees meer

Educational Policy and National Character

Dickson Mungazi [Deceased]

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Urban Studies
• This study is an integrated approach to how the problems of education are related to those of national development in Africa, Japan, the United States... Lees meer

The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space

Robert Rotenberg, Gary Wray McDonogh

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Urban Studies
• This book presents a cross-cultural approach to the study of urban space. Essays written by major contributors in contemporary urban studies provide a... Lees meer

Braving a New World

Marycarol Hopkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Urban Studies
• This ethnography, based on a five-year field study, presents a holistic view of a nearly invisible ethnic minority in the urban Midwest, Cambodian ref... Lees meer

There's No Place Like Home

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Urban Studies
• This collection of essays addresses the lack of shelter--one of the most basic elements of human adaptation--now experienced by many Americans. Based ... Lees meer

There's No Place Like Home

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Urban Studies
• This collection of essays addresses the lack of shelter--one of the most basic elements of human adaptation--now experienced by many Americans. Based ... Lees meer

Two Towns in Germany

Norbert Dannhaeuser

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Urban Studies
• Many forces threaten the viability of town centers. One of them is trade concentration in which family businesses are replaced by large, vertically in... Lees meer