Urban Communities

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...

Recognised by the UNs Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural...

This book on the regional development theory analyzes the institutional environment, singling out three factors: the textile industry; government t...

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially a...

This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner,...

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban So...

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (19342015). Vesely was a leading authority on phil...

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.It de...

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use plan...

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The traditional firm has a need for innova...

The Metaphysical City examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to further understand its significance on urban planning and geo...

This book investigates the history of Arabian sqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ruins, ...

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of...

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to t...

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provi...