Urban Communities

A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planetBetting on ...

For over fifty years, numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we a...

How spatial planning was transformed in Europe in the postwar period. Spatial planning is a typical European attempt to shape the development of so...

Throughout Kingston, Jamaica, figures known as “dons” exercise political authority and are seen as legitimate leaders despite their associations wi...

Throughout Kingston, Jamaica, figures known as “dons” exercise political authority and are seen as legitimate leaders despite their associations wi...

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the ...

Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position Glob...

Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position Glob...

This book challenges the concept of ‘urban resilience’ by exploring its impact and limitations in three cities.Resilience has become a buzzword in ...

African Clusters in India examines the discrimination and stereotypes faced by African migrants in India. It outlines the narratives of the migrant...

This collection explores the significance of New York City in children’s literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writ...

A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life....

Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history remains largely u...

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipela...

Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West investigates some of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century, inclu...

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipela...

In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of...

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in ...

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in ...

This book analyses the nature as well as the political and philosophical implications of the contemporary international memorial-building boom. Dev...

In The Roots of Flower City, Camden Burd explores the economic and ecological significance of Rochester plant nurserymen over the course of the nin...

In Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity: Navigating Insecurities in an American City, Stephanie Baran argues that when it comes to assistan...

A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents, neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bri...

A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents, neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bri...

Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban public policy that preserves 69 pe...

Longing for Belonging among the Marginalized in Urban Australia examines how Indigenous people, African refugees, and impoverished Whites in urban ...