Urban Communities

People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in...

People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in...

This open access book defines the field of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering, identifying a clear scope of what constitutes smart in the contex...

When Pugg, dog to eighteenth-century printmaker William Hogarth, finds a leather portmanteau abandoned beneath his master's deathbed, the bereaved ...

There are growing waves of desirable migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in it...

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radic...

Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influentialand provocativeauthors of our time. With char...

When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, stee...

Dieses Open-Access-Buch knüpft an aktuelle Themen zur Transformation der Alltagsmobilität an. Es leistet einen Beitrag zur Frage, wie und wann Mens...

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

Engaging Children and Young People in Planning places planners skills for engagement with children and young people centre stage by discussing seve...

Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and secu...

Tracking Bengalurus dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheava...

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the regions original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century Philade...

A sober yet encouraging look at how urban public schools have confronted challenges, defied expectations, and continued to improve In The Enduring ...

In the early 2000s, a remarkable renewal of Torontos Regent Park neighbourhood began. Designed as a garden city in the 1940s, the area gained a rep...

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a...

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthou...

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer...

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate t...

Social scientists have long argued over the links between crime and place. The authors of Communities and Crime provide an intellectual history tha...

In the scholarship of urbanism, small towns are overlooked and understudied. Rebuilding the American Town highlights how smaller municipalities are...

In the scholarship of urbanism, small towns are overlooked and understudied. Rebuilding the American Town highlights how smaller municipalities are...

Race talk is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relat...

This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability...

Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city examines how urban health and wellbeing are shaped by migration, mobility, racism, san...