Urban Communities

A sociological study of public restrooms So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, an...

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) and mac...

There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting f...

More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in ...

In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted attention to t...

This book aims to outline the detailed process of integrating nature and cities in a historical context through the lens of urban environmental his...

The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for int...

The book discusses some of the issues related to proximity, challenges an acritical use of the concept and highlights several dimensions that may b...

Barrio San Siro: Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Mi...

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has l...

This book examines ways in which communities can affect change by providing strategies on creating and developing communities that enables people t...

Architecture and urban design are rarely considered as technology, but more frequently as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted indiv...

Communities are not static or stationary organisms. They are fluid and dynamic and change over time. The role of community development in the chang...

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It ...