Urban Communities

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the f...

As COVID-19 took hold across local and international borders in 2020 and 2021, over 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated to have been advers...

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and crea...

The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope...

First published in 2006, as numerous local authorities of European cities invest in the attractiveness of their urban areas in the hope of attracti...

Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities.Public safety protections promote ...

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, ...

Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming m...

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in ...

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant ...

In exploring the connections between religion, violence and cities, the book probes the extent to which religion moderates or exacerbates violence ...

Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy City is an exploration into the reinvention, self-reflection and boosterism of US legacy cities, taking...

This Regional Studies Policy Impact Book brings together the latest academic evidence and public policy insights with global value chains (GVCs) an...

It is not possible to be alive today in the United States without feeling the influence of the political climate on the spaces where people live, w...

The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation. In the European conte...

This book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varie...

Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form, it is seen through the eyes of its...

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish...

After 1945 it was not just Europes parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new...

In recent years smartness has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this, debates around ...

Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increas...

This title was first published in 2003. Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have contributed to the spatial and soc...

Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities brings together scientific reflections on the relations of art and urban mobilities and artistic research on...

This book explores young peoples experiences of, and views on, dating, gender, sexuality, sexual hegemony and violence within dating relationships....