Urban Communities

This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from the perspective of the diffe...

Translation of the 1969 Marathi classic Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is becoming cheap)A brothel exposes the intricate mechanisms of power and expl...

PROSE Award Finalist 2019Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly ExcellenceAs a follow up to his widely acclaimed S...

This book explores some of the common socio-economic and environmental challenges faced by the cities of South Asia, which remain highly under-rese...

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environ...

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities...

There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the ...

This collection explores the significance of New York City in childrens literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writi...

The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens p...

This book looks at the transition from New Labours Spatial Planning approach to the Coalition Governments preferred Localism approach. Localism we ...

This book develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents gain access to urban computing. Metaphorically speaking, it is taking comput...

Based on ethnographic research, this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities of class, sta...

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...

Building upon presentations given during the conference on Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice, held at Uni...

This collection explores ways in which theories of space and place can be used in understanding processes of exclusion and inclusion in education. ...

In recent years, the social sciences have taken a mobilities turn. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not just happen. Mobi...

The housing crisis confronts two of North Americas contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densif...

The housing crisis confronts two of North Americas contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densif...

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

Originally published in 1988, reissued now with a new series introduction, Environmental Policy, Assessment and Communication, was the second in a ...

Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

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...

This book investigates some of the biggest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. Research conducted in Asia and the West highlight...

This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy...

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...

In his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-l...

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA Wall Street J...

This open access book addresses the problem of global urban development that excludes various groups of people from the benefits of urban growth an...

This book analyzes the mechanism of transnational private regulations (TPRs) in the global property investment market and the conditions of their ...

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu. How can mass...

The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday li...