Urban Communities

The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constit...

Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, ...

A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our usean...

Creative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropoli...

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What ...

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What ...

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. C...

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. C...

Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social M...

Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social M...

Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfare of communities, rather th...

In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practic...

In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practic...

Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has...

This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. ...

The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time. -Sadie Stein, New York Times One is invited to fathom the many New ...

The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time. -Sadie Stein, New York Times One is invited to fathom the many New ...

Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. Th...

Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification,...

This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disci...

What does it mean to be middle class in contemporary global cities? What do the middle classes do to these cities and what do these cities do to th...

Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regenerat...

Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with ...

Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, ...

This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In part...

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, Los Angeles brings it all together. To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortua...

Washington 101 offers a layman's introduction to the richness and diversity of the nation's capital. An exploration of the history, politics, archi...

This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theori...

Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provisi...

What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis? Fo...

Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the...

This work offers a political and historical analysis of Newark's modern politics since 1950, culminating with Mayor Cory Booker's rise to power and...

Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case stu...

Across Africa and elsewhere, colonialism promised to deliver progress and development. In urban spaces like Zanzibar, the British vowed to import s...

It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. In this provocative a...

Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories o...

This book showcases nine possible scenarios for future cities, based on different aspects and characteristics of the term proximity. Different poin...

While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given the same atten...

In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urba...

Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the...

Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the...