Urban Communities

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States. What happened next a...

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies. Contractual relations have in...

Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibiliti...

This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies. Under a multidiscplinar...

The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, th...

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors ...

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as safe havens for those seeking protection, as concent...

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 1...

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

Examining contestation and conflict management within holy cities, this book provides both an overview and a range of options available to those co...

Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them....

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in...

Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with t...

This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific pl...

In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the M...

This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city. It presents a range of approaches to view th...

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon elec...

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also ...

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity...

Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text, The New Urban Sociology is a broad and expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and...

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confr...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studi...