Urban Communities

Chinas unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a t...

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

This book aims to provide insight into the soft side of real estate research and the interesting results and implications of the real estate resear...

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or exclu...

This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and p...

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly ...

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a variety of t...

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the im...

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approache...

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the U...

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...