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Anthony Townsend argues that the driverless car is a red herring. When self-driving technology infects buses, bikes, delivery vans and buildings, a...

When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret de...

Violence is widely associated with illegal drug markets, and is one of the features that can differentiate illegal capitalism from legitimate busin...

In 1925 a journalist on the Barcelona newspaper El Escandalo used the term Barrio Chino in a somewhat derogatory way to describe part of the older ...

A long-standing market-leading text for urban geography courses with a Canadian perspective, Canadian Cities in Transition, now in its sixth editio...

London drowns in sewage and Europe burns. In this creative nonfiction, George F. falls in with a band of chaos punks who drink, fight and struggle ...

Over the past fifty years we have seen an enormous demographic shift in the number of people migrating to urban areas, proliferated by factors such...

What I did to them was terrible, but you have to understand the context. This was London, 2016 . . . Bohemia is history. Paul has awoken to the f...

Farming in cities and small spaces is becoming increasingly popular, but it has its challenges. City Farming addresses the problems the urban farme...

The history of New York City's urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan site...

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it i...

A brave foray into the interdisciplinary and a serious attempt to cover city life in all its complexity... Franklins optimism about the city is ref...

The high cost of building affordable housing in New York, and cities like it, has long been a topic of urgent debate. Yet despite its paramount imp...

The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urba...

Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixe...

Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixe...

Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists, Fractured Militancy tells the story of postapartheid South Africa from t...

In terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.3 billion i...

This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality...

The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and commu...

Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research among several differen...

Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is ...

What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just betw...