Human Geography

A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities.   An enduring paradox of urban public health is that m...

Providing a much-needed perspective on exclusion and discrimination, this book offers a distinct spatial approach to the topic of hate studies. Of ...

Aboveground, Manhattans Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, dis...

Aboveground, Manhattans Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, dis...

Sets out a rich and complex topic in ways that are both accessible and sufficiently nuanced. There is probably no more urgent issue than the questi...

This open access book considers the water, energy, food (WEF) nexus in the Pacific region. The region comprises seventeen sovereign countries and s...

Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable st...

Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Leba...

This open access book provides a unique overview of geographical, historical, political and environmental issues facing the French overseas territo...

Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge...

Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the ...

Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fue...

Extraordinary, Ordinary Women provides an intimate portrait of twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris. Pulling back the veil ...

This open access book discusses urban agriculture initiatives integrated in public space of dense inner-city neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring its a...

To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, Europe...

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for ...

Explore new places with handy pocket maps from Collins. Handy little full colour map of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. Detailed mapping ...

Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multi...

SSC Napolis history is packed with fascinating figures. More than Mardona highlights this cast of characters, spotlights the sides most intriguing ...

Now in its fourth edition, Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies remains a core, balanced and comprehensive introducto...

Great Salt Lake is a celebrated, world-recognized natural landmark. It, and the broader region bound to it, is also a thoroughly cultural landscape...

How histories of environmental inequalities and settler colonialism undercut a famously green regionIn Portlands harbor, environmental justice grou...