Urban Communities

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urb...

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urb...

Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possibl...

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

Everyday People Can Save the Planet and So Can You: A Qualitative Examination of Green Lifestyles in Lowcountry South Carolina examines three inter...

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 ...

'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a vetera...

This book evaluates the impact of 20 years of urban policies in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexic...

2023 Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner, Organization of American Historians Between the 1980s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, Asian...

Just when he thought he was out...Burdened by guilt over the trauma recently inflicted on his friends and colleagues, former-Detective Chief Inspec...

In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's shock city. It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and w...

This book illustrates how the advanced technology developed for smart cities requires increasing interaction with citizens to motivate and incentiv...

Disasters have a widescale impact with drastic consequences on human lives, especially those who are marginalised by the wider society. Proposing a...

 This book offers a unique and much-needed perspective on disability and accessibility in urban context in South Africa. Drawing on lived experienc...

Inspired by their Progressive Era faith in social science solutions to societys problems, the residents of Hull-House collaborated on this work of ...

Das Buch leistet einen originellen Beitrag für eine leibphänomenologisch-soziologische Architekturforschung. Die Autorin schließt mit Helmuth Pless...

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los ...

Globally renowned architect Tye Farrow bridges the gap in knowledge between the therapeutic medical world and the design community to reveal how th...