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Urban Villagers, REV & Exp Ed
ISBN: 9780029112403 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sociological study of the native-born Americans of Italian parentage who lived in Boston's West End during the fifties.
A sociological study of the native-born Americans of Italian parentage who lived in Boston's West End during the fifties.
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151,37 zł |
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The Preindustrial City: Past and Present
ISBN: 9780029289808 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
Synopsis coming soon.......
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114,61 zł |
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Urban Culture: Exploring Cities and Cultures
ISBN: 9780130416940 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative text uses the lens of culture to examine the various theoretical perspectives and paradigms of urban analysis. It explores the city's impact on how we make and consume all types of culture-art, music, literature, architecture, film, and more-not only illustrating the effects the urban environment has on the production of culture, but, at times, how culture has influenced the city. Theoretically diverse, Urban Culture employs the major theoretical perspectives in sociology and the major paradigms in Urban Sociology and Urban Studies: Urban Ecology, Marxism,... This innovative text uses the lens of culture to examine the various theoretical perspectives and paradigms of urban analysis. It explores the cit... |
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420,87 zł |
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Deciphering the City
ISBN: 9780131134959 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-written and extremely topical, Deciphering the City efficiently deals with the large and small issues facing cities today. A focus on globalization's impact on the role of cities, an explicit mission to drive home the applied nature of urban studies to students. This innovative text offers an exciting introduction to the history, issues, problems, potential solutions and challenges, facing cities in the developed and the developing world for the twenty-first century. Globalization has changed the roles of cities in the global economy and this text begins with an introduction to... Well-written and extremely topical, Deciphering the City efficiently deals with the large and small issues facing cities today. A focus on globaliz... |
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944,38 zł |
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Instant Cities: Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver
ISBN: 9780195018998 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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789,52 zł |
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American Urban History: An Interpretive Reader with Commentaries
ISBN: 9780195029819 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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919,99 zł |
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City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9780195031942 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. City People: The rise of modern city culture in nineteenth-century America. With pictures and anecdotes and a wealth of material drawn from the personal records of real people, 'City People' traces the emergence and dissemination of big-city culture in nineteenth-century America.
City People: The rise of modern city culture in nineteenth-century America. With pictures and anecdotes and a wealth of material drawn from the person...
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167,35 zł |
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The Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780195035902 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This imaginative study recaptures 100 years in the life of Limoges, France's first socialist city, at a time when Limoges rode high on the crest of every wave of social, political, and industrial change. The story of this single city is the story of urban transformation and political radicalism in 19th-century France, of the struggle between tradition and modernity in French society and politics that took place not only within cities but also between cities and the countryside. Here, Merriman offers vivid portraits of particular social groups, neighborhoods, and events in 19th-century Limoges...
This imaginative study recaptures 100 years in the life of Limoges, France's first socialist city, at a time when Limoges rode high on the crest of ev...
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1311,66 zł |
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The Moral Order of a Suburb
ISBN: 9780195054132 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surrounding all major cities in the United States are numerous smaller communities collectively known as suburbia. The most popular place of residence in America, the suburbs are peaceful and tranquil environments, where civility prevails and disturbances of the peace are uncommon. Drawing on research, observation, and hundreds of in-depth interviews conducted during a twelve-month study of an affluent New York City suburb, M.P. Baumgartner reveals that the apparent serenity of the suburb is caused by the avoidance of open conflict. She contends that although nonviolence, nonconfrontation,...
Surrounding all major cities in the United States are numerous smaller communities collectively known as suburbia. The most popular place of residence...
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1409,56 zł |
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The Moral Order of a Suburb
ISBN: 9780195069952 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surrounding all major cities in the United States are numerous smaller communities collectively known as suburbia. The most popular place of residence in America, the suburbs are peaceful and tranquil environments, where civility prevails and disturbances of the peace are uncommon. Drawing on research, observation, and hundreds of in-depth interviews conducted during a twelve-month study of an affluent New York City suburb, M.P. Baumgartner reveals that the apparent serenity of the suburb is caused by the avoidance of open conflict. She contends that although nonviolence, nonconfrontation,...
Surrounding all major cities in the United States are numerous smaller communities collectively known as suburbia. The most popular place of residence...
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626,28 zł |
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The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age
ISBN: 9780195070279 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Built by industrialists whose early businesses contributed to the escalation of the Industrial Revolution, company towns flourished in countries that embraced capitalism and open-market trading. In many instances, the company town came to symbolize the wrecking of the environment, especially in places associated with extractive industries such as mining and lumber milling. Some resident industrialists, however, took a genuine interest in the welfare of their work forces, and in a number of instances hired architects to provide a model environment. Overtaken by time, these towns were either...
Built by industrialists whose early businesses contributed to the escalation of the Industrial Revolution, company towns flourished in countries that ...
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1638,00 zł |
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Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy and Cultural Construction of Social Activism
ISBN: 9780195126044 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building on a critical overview of current social movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analyzing social movements in advanced capitalism. This model provides a historically specific analysis that locates movements in global, national, regional, and local structures. The heart of the book draws on diverse theoretical traditions within sociology to specify the structural constraints and opportunities that comprise the environment in which movements mobilize and contest for power. These theoretical traditions include world system theory; critical theory; theories of class,...
Building on a critical overview of current social movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analyzing social movements in advanced ca...
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789,45 zł |
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Global Cities
ISBN: 9780195142044 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 they live. The development of these influential cities is intimately related to the emergence of modern telecommunications, the growth of multinational corporations, the internationalization of economic activity, and the increased movement of cultural symbols and artifacts across national lines.
Accessible to readers with little... Global Cities examines the distinctive commercial, residential, and spatial features of the major cities of the contemporary world--cities ho...
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466,37 zł |
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Cities, Society, and Social Perception: A Central African Perspective
ISBN: 9780198232537 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dramatic consequence of the impact of Western capitalism on countries to which it has turned for raw materials and export markets has been the spectacular growth of cities in developing regions. Drawing on empirical material assembled during his twenty-one years in Africa, Mitchell here uses statistical analysis to investigate changing urban conditions in South Central Africa and their wider social, political, and economic contexts. This comparative study provides a unique springboard for an examination of the way in which urban sociologists and anthropologists think about urban phenomena...
A dramatic consequence of the impact of Western capitalism on countries to which it has turned for raw materials and export markets has been the spect...
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309,96 zł |
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The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City
ISBN: 9780198232926 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the creation of a new middle class responsible for the gentrification of inner city districts in six large Canadian cities. Placing his study within the context of international post-industrial, postmodern society, Ley discusses the crucial role of cultural politics dating from the 1960s.
This book examines the creation of a new middle class responsible for the gentrification of inner city districts in six large Canadian cities. Placing...
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1426,11 zł |
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Culture and the City in East Asia
ISBN: 9780198233589 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the role of culture in the urban transformation of Asian cities. Departing from the strictly economic treatment of urbanization that dominates urban geography, Kim draws on both comparative analysis and individual studies of major cities in the region to demonstrate the pervasive influence of culture on Asian urbanization.
This book explores the role of culture in the urban transformation of Asian cities. Departing from the strictly economic treatment of urbanization tha...
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1271,10 zł |
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Doing the Business: Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London
ISBN: 9780198255987 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this controversial and original study of policing, class relations and organizations, Hobbs illustrates the culture of London's East End and its relationship with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. Both the East Enders and the Metropolitan Police are considered in terms of their relationship with the marketplace and the emergent strategies of negotiation, trading, and entrepreneurship.
In this controversial and original study of policing, class relations and organizations, Hobbs illustrates the culture of London's East End and its re...
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837,06 zł |
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Urbanization in Large Developing Countries: China, Indonesia, Brazil, and India
ISBN: 9780198289746 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the interactions between economic change and urbanization, in the form of structural shifts in employment, regional development policy, and national industrial policy. It also discusses the human welfare problems associated with rapid urbanization and a lack of government finance. Its conclusions move beyond the scope of the four country case-studies to identify urban planning issues that are relevant to all developing countries.
This book examines the interactions between economic change and urbanization, in the form of structural shifts in employment, regional development pol...
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1457,11 zł |
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Im Spiegel ihrer Lebensgeschichten. Gewalttätiges Verhalten Jugendlicher und Geschlechtszugehörigkeit
ISBN: 9783932602498 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,68 zł |
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Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Cities: Pathways to Transformation
ISBN: 9781138193536 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century. However, despite increasing recognition of the critical relationship between economic and social development in cities, gender issues are often overlooked in understanding the complexities of current urbanisation processes. This book seeks to rectify this neglect. Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Cities explores the contribution that a focus on the gendered nature of asset accumulation brings to the goal of achieving... With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st c... |
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264,37 zł |
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