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Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender...

''Beautifully woven'' Sunday Times''Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York ...

For the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter less and less these days, but in the inner city, your life can be irrevocably shap...

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of c...

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations In ...

'Beautifully woven' Sunday Times'Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York sto...

The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Daniel T. OBrien explains the transformative insights g...

Our traditional image of Chicago-as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ...

As urbanisation progresses, urban environments have been confronted with many challenges, such as air pollution and stormwater disaster. The latter...

In photos and words, this irresistible volume showcases long-established great cities like Paris, Rome, New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as exc...

In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived ci...

Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have ca...

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Subur...