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

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

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

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