Urban Communities

As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are d...

A comprehensive look into how Macaus recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planetBetting on M...

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

For over fifty years, numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we a...

How spatial planning was transformed in Europe in the postwar period. Spatial planning is a typical European attempt to shape the development of so...

In Street Harassment as Everyday Violence, Melinda A. Mills investigates womens experiences with street harassment, recognizing this phenomenon as ...

The site of Recife's Brasília Teimosa favela emerged as a flash point of economic and political interests in the 1930s and the scene of subsequent ...

Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common S...

Throughout Kingston, Jamaica, figures known as dons exercise political authority and are seen as legitimate leaders, despite their associations wit...

Throughout Kingston, Jamaica, figures known as dons exercise political authority and are seen as legitimate leaders, despite their associations wit...

Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in childrens growth and socialization,...

Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in childrens growth and socialization,...

This book provides unique perspectives into newly changed political and socioeconomic urban landscapes due to COVID-19 in diverse cities and aims t...

This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provi...

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the ...