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  • Theatres of Accumulation

    Studies in Asian and Latin American Urbanization

    by Warwick Armstrong, T.G. McGee ...
    In the great cities of Latin America and Asia, international business and local firms meet and, in particular, influence teh development strategies of Third World countries. The authors of Theatres of Accumulation argue that these cities play a crucial role in the process of capital accumulation and of unequal exchange and dependency. They examine the twin patterns of convergence and divergence in ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Medieval London

    by Gwyn A. Williams ...
    This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation. The period covered is the century and a half between 1191 and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Leading themes are the ... Read more

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  • Colonial Urban Development

    Culture, Social Power and Environment

    by Anthony D. King ...
    The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this.The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and the distribution ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Urban Sociology

    by R.N. Morris ...
    This book offers a coherant theoretical introduction to urban sociology. Based on the urban theory of Louis Wirth, it systematically examines Wirth's principal ideas in the contexts of pre-industrial cities, industrial cities and bureaucracies. Morris discusses conditions for the emergence of cities and for industrialization. He relates organisational and ecological accounts of the city and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cities, Capitalism and Civilization

    by R.J. Holton ...
    Cities, Capitalism and Civilization looks at the character and distinctiveness of Western Civilization. R.J. Holton sets out to challenge the belief that cities and urban social classes have formed the main component of the advance of civilization, and the principle dynamic of Western capitalism.This book was first published in 1986. ... Read more

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  • The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Edited by B.I. Coleman ...
    In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had attained before. This volume focuses on the intellectual and controversial response of the period's leading men and women to the key issues of urbanization and its surrounding social problems.The extracts selected date from 1785 to 1909, and are drawn ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Education and the City

    Theory, History and Contemporary Practice

    Edited by Gerald Grace ...
    City schools, especially those attended by working class and ethnic minority pupils are teh catalysts of many significant issues in educational debate and policy making. They bring into sharp focus questions to do with class, gender and race relations in education; concepts of equality of opportunity and of social justice; and controversies about the wider political economic and social context of ... Read more

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  • Urban Focus

    by Mark Hewlett ...
    This project is aimed the 16+ age range inside or outside any kind of educational institution. It is for courses concerned with general education - either in general studies programmes or as aspects of specialist teaching. Narrative has been kept to a minimum. Instead, the books are more a collection of different items of teaching and learning materials: for example, the collection of key concepts ... Read more

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  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    by Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • London United Tramways

    A History 1894-1933

    by Geoffrey Wilson ...
    With the twentieth century arrived the first electric tramcars in London. Thirty years later the first trolley buses arrived - along with a fleet of new trams that were the most modern of their day. This era was one of rapid change, rich in achievement adn personalities. Among the more colourful of the undertakings involved was London United, which introduced the first public service of electric ... Read more

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  • Urban Sociology

    Critical Essays

    Edited by C.G. Pickvance ...
    This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.This book was first published in 1976. ... Read more

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  • Four years Old in an Urban Community

    by John Newson, Elizabeth Newson ...
    John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce 'a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and - equally important - how ... Read more

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