Urban Communities

Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning childrens relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, ...

Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recession Since the Great Recession, even as protest and rebellion ha...

An in-depth look at life in the smart city Technology has fundamentally transformed urban life. But todays smart cities look little like what exper...

Starting around 70 years ago, white flight out of America's major cities caused rapid urban decline. Now we are witnessing a resurgence of American...

presents multiple perspectives with a clear focus, enabling the reader to apprehend a complex, consequential, and always transforming site as the n...

The new Prater Museum the exhibition publication At the center of the Wurstelprater amusement park, on the site of a former amusement arcade, th...

This collection brings together new and original research on the concept and practice of rhythmanalysis in urban sociology as a means to analyse th...

presents multiple perspectives with a clear focus, enabling the reader to apprehend a complex, consequential, and always transforming site as the n...

There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days,...

A paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream even as the possibil...

There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days,...

For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the experience of hunger and malnutrition in urban s...

Taking us on an ethnographic journey into the spatially transgressive practice of parkour and freerunning, Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Lat...

Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest. Neighbours Around the World takes a comparative look around the world at our r...

Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and ...

American Murids is a major new ethnography of an African Sufi Muslim immigrant community in the United States. It is particularly timely given the ...

Looting has become an increasingly popular concept in South Africa as an unsophisticated interpretation of ownership by “force” of property during ...