Renewing the City: Reflections on Community Development and Urban Renewal, Paperback - Robert D. Lupton

When an expatriate bureaucrat toured a devastated city, he saw more than ashes and ruins. He envisioned a thriving metropolis where God's people co...

Reducere. A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwa...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Alison Bick HirschNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 217 x 217 x 24Cover type...

Reducere. Social Housing and Urban Renewal. A Cross-National Perspective This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relat...

DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

In a time of discouragement, how can the Church renew itself and its outreach to all people? Bishop Robert Barron insists that a "dumbed down" Cath...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housin...

Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of s...

Reducere. DescriptionFifteen people--plus a class of first graders--tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community . . . and...

Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. And all those gangs know well that the Cross crew occupies a cinderblo...

Reducere. Scripture testifies to God's care for displaced peoples. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a narrative filled with migrants, with refugees, ...

Reducere. In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, wat...

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have been thought t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In the early afternoon of July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde take off from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris struck a nine inch metal strip on ...

Reducere. In the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape" and fueled a fierce debate over how ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Barry D. WilsonIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of...

Reducere. A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food mem...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at ...

This book continues to provide comprehensive community corrections coverage with an applied, practical perspective, with a special emphasis on cont...

Musings is an offering designed to encourage, edify and challenge all who read it to view the events of the day from a spiritual as well as practic...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis IncAuthor(s): Robert W. LakeNumber of pages: 351Publication date: 1983Dimensions: 237 x 145 x 19Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. God loves just economies, but sadly the invisible hand of the market has chiseled huge cracks in our communities. Fortunately, Jesus announced free...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In this book, leading social researchers from Australia, India, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and USA discuss the impact of the ...

This collection of poetry centers on my reflections of the concepts surrounding civility, and writing the poems has been restorative to me and to m...

★ Publishers Weekly starred review. Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they compat...

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction--acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a ...

There is a growing recognition of the importance of networking for the vitality and cohesion of community life. Now in its third edition, and subst...

Publisher: Shambhala Publications IncAuthor(s): Robert RosenbaumNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 30Cover type: Pap...

Mother Mary Francis, abbess of a Poor Clare Monastery for over forty years, left an enduring legacy in her writings and in the conferences she gave...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 56 Illustrations, colorPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 165 x 34Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Ingrid M...

The Guidelines are a practical reference document on approaches to evidence-based policy-making for policy-makers involved in development and imple...

Focussing on infants and the relationship between child and parent, this book presents a discourse on eminent Jungian child analyst Michael Fordham...

DescriptionBruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and f...

BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging (gilded foil page ed...

A fully updated edition of this bestselling textbook offers a radical approach to community development taking theories of Gramsci and Freire into ...

This book examines critical topics in Smart Cities such as true sustainability and the resilience required for all cities. It explores sustainabili...

A collection of essays from a revered member of the British Labour Party. What distinguished Cole was his distance from traditional marxist and bur...