Urban Communities

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 today’s “smart” cities look little like what ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Dance Music Spaces examines the production of physical and digital spaces in dance music, and how the players—clubs, clubbers, and DJs—use authenti...

Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been “more, more, more” in terms of growth – of population, of the built environment, of human an...

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai ...

On August 1, 2007, just after 6:00 p.m., during the evening rush hour in Minneapolis, the 1,900-foot-long, eight-lane I-35W bridge buckled and cras...

A Global Idea outlines how youth—as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses—became a prominent social and political categ...

Digital technologies promise efficiency and comfort, but the smoothness of platform services relies on the hidden social labour of those who keep t...

From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban dev...

In Mallparks, Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within...