Urban Communities

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of ca...

A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urban...

A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urban...

The inner-city world of at-risk teens through their powerful photos and stories 

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis pr...

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 years In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers incre...

Research-based guidance for educators, teacher educators, and community learning partners to effectively support LGBTQIA+ students of color In Lear...

Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students eyesWhile policymakers often justify school choice as a means to allev...

A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United StatesNot long ago, bicycling in the city was considered a r...

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southe...

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southe...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

This volume presents three important themes for the study of Indonesian politics, cultures, and urban space: 1) urban regeneration and collective m...

Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative ...

Washington, D.C. has long been known as a frustrating and sometimes confusing city for its residents to call home. The monumental core of federal o...

Thirty years ago, few residents of Asian cities had ever been on a plane, much less outside their home countries. Today, flying, and flying abroad,...

On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins dÉole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of ...

The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, histo...

This book presents a comprehensive review of the impact of residential design on crime focusing upon research, policy and practice both in the UK a...

Fear is ingrained in the history of cities but our short-sightedness prevents us from grasping its evolution over time. Increasingly, risk and fear...

This book is an exploration of the vitality of multilingualism and of its critical importance in and for contemporary cities. It examines how the c...

Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to s...

This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at th...

This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at th...

Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing tran...