Urban Communities

People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in...

People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in...

This open access book defines the field of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering, identifying a clear scope of what constitutes smart in the contex...

When Pugg, dog to eighteenth-century printmaker William Hogarth, finds a leather portmanteau abandoned beneath his master's deathbed, the bereaved ...

There are growing waves of desirable migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in it...

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radic...

Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influentialand provocativeauthors of our time. With char...

When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, stee...

Dieses Open-Access-Buch knüpft an aktuelle Themen zur Transformation der Alltagsmobilität an. Es leistet einen Beitrag zur Frage, wie und wann Mens...

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

Engaging Children and Young People in Planning places planners skills for engagement with children and young people centre stage by discussing seve...

Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and secu...

Tracking Bengalurus dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheava...

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the regions original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century Philade...

A sober yet encouraging look at how urban public schools have confronted challenges, defied expectations, and continued to improve In The Enduring ...

In the early 2000s, a remarkable renewal of Torontos Regent Park neighbourhood began. Designed as a garden city in the 1940s, the area gained a rep...