Urban communities

This book applies the Total Human Ecosystem as a guiding concept in coastal urban communities to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship between industrial parks and their surrounding wetlands.

This book introduces a groundbreaking approach to urban design, addressing site-specific challenges arising from the impacts of climate change.

Eighteen-year-old white-boy suburbanite Jay Charles receives a crash course on culture in the New Jersey jail system that high school didnt prepare him for.

Walter Baily, born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, was a signalman aboard a minesweeper in WWII.

Real, raw and refreshing are just a few adjectives that describe this insightful work of art.

In every large city, there are marginal, criminal types who live on the fringes of the society.

The Gay Village in Montreal is a vibrant and unique neighborhood born in the 1980s.

Our actions in education, business, and government are no longer guided by conscious ideals, but by entrenched practices that are products of expediency, indolence, and even tyranny.

I would prefer not to.

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication.

'Heather is a bright star in the world of gangland writing.

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities.

The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis.

Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor.

A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Bridesmaid and The Daughter in Law.

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication.

'Ross Greenwood doesn't write cliches.

On July 13, 1977, there was a blackout in New York City.

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water.

In Migrants and City-Making Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions.

An entertaining, enlightening, and "e;engrossing"e; journey through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic city (The Christian Science Monitor).

Delve into Gillian Godden's addictively gripping gangland thrillers!

Administraciones de ciudades de todo el mundo, desde la populosa Ciudad de México a la "eterna" Roma, viven hoy en estado de emergencia, sin poder cerrar sus números y recurriendo a auxilios centrales cada vez más inciertos.

This early work by George Sturt was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now.

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now.

A New York Times bestselling author's gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence.

Este livro reúne crônicas e pensamentos sobre a administração pública e especial sobre como construir politicas públicas eficientes convidando o leitor a pensar sobre nossas cidades e como torna-las um local melhor, mais humano e funcional.

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During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants.

Os valores humanos como a outrora defendidos pela conhecida metodologia CHA (Competências, Habilidades e Atitudes), cederam lugar a um padrão esperado de resposta nos ambientes empresariais, transformando os profissionais numa nova plataforma cognitiva como a 'Siri' do Iphone ou 'Watson' da IBM.

A Invenção do trabalhismo está no palco de grandes debates e engloba várias correntes de pensadores e ideologias, bem como o trabalho de historiadores que têm a tarefa de desmistificar nosso entendimento a respeito da história do desenvolvimento político e econômico do nosso país, assim como nos levar a compreender um pouco dos importantes movimentos sociais, políticos e econômicos que contribuíram para a formação da Identidade do Trabalhador no Brasil.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

Previously published as My Uncle Charlie.

Thirty-six-year-old Gabriella Stevens is living a quiet and content fairy tale as a devoted housewife to Simon-just as her traditional Filipino mother has always told her to do-when, after sixteen years of marriage and twenty years together, he tells he wants a divorce.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City-and the worldIn the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine "e;Kitty"e; Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens.

Environmental changes have significant impacts on people's lives and livelihoods, particularly the urban poor and those living in informal settlements.