Urban Communities

The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical depar...

In the more than two decades since the publication of Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader, Ontario, Canada, North America, and the world have exp...

In the more than two decades since the publication of Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader, Ontario, Canada, North America, and the world have exp...

This book outlines an interdisciplinary normative framework that makes sense of the historical transformation of cities and helps to assess contemp...

The Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages (the PAH, by its Spanish acronym) has left an important mark in the history of Spanish social movements...

This book investigates everyday life within Lebanese Australian homes, documenting how these homes integrate Lebanese Australian culture into subur...

This book provides a manual for planning for arts and culture in cities, featuring chapters and case studies from Africa, the Americas, Australasia...

This book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwellers present needs ...

This book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwellers present needs ...

This book offers a historical analysis of the landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies...

Within the context of W.E.B. Du Bois question How does it feel to be a problem?, this volume examines the problem using a phenomenological approach...

This open access book offers valuable insights into experimenting with New European Bauhaus values and principles in urban transformation, drawing ...

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burge...

Um den Ursachen der Klimakrise zu begegnen und deren Auswirkungen substanziell abzuschwächen, ist es eine zentrale Herausforderung, die derzeit ver...

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...