Urban Communities

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...

Once known for slum-like conditions in its immigrant and working-class neighborhoods, New York City's downtown now features luxury housing, chic bo...

In the early twentieth century, America was transformed from a predominantly agricultural nation to one whose population resided mostly in cities. ...

Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Au...

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneu...

This open access book comes at an opportune time, with land take high on the EU policy agenda. It shows how over one million hectares in Europe bec...

In this innovative work, Lukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvres idea that space is a social product. Stanek exp...

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. Departing from the conventional theor...

The spaces we inhabit from homes and workspaces to city streetsmediate community, creativity, and our very identity. Using insights from environmen...

Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary A...

During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing citiessuch as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; ...

How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threa...

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals ...

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights i...

Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor adverti...

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the author...

Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary rephotographs taken by the author with image...

Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists and media specialists to provide three distinct prism...

In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital ma...

Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary rephotographs taken by the author with image...

Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicagos police wars   Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized pover...

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities   In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ...

The Human City presents the most cogent, evidence-based and clear-headed exposition of the pro-suburban argument...enriching our understanding of w...

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities   In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ...

Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicagos police wars   Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized pover...

An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.A Peoples Guide to the San...