Urban Communities

How Iraqi refugees navigate life, belonging, and exclusion in America The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 caused the largest forced migration in the Mi...

Texans love the idea of wide-open spaces and, before World War II, the majority of the state’s people did live and work on the land. Between 1940 a...

Winner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award,...

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of ...

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of ...

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the...

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman Finklestein Workers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire...

This book describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspir...

Regional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today’s effective regional planning programs, analy...

Lynda Ann Ewen offers the first thoroughgoing Marxist-Leninist analysis, based on primary research, of the structure and dynamics of class relation...

'One of the most exciting and provocative books that I've read in a long time' - Mike Davis, author of Planet of the Slums Can people who live in ...

People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven in...

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the h...

Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-yea...

Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often invo...

Cities, counties, school districts and other local governments have suffered a long-lasting period of fiscal challenges since the beginning of the...

Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, whic...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing...

Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of ...

Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of ...

A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire a...

Urban Arabesques examines philosophy as an event of the city and the city as an event of philosophy and how the intertwining of the two generates a...

The book explores how Latin America indicated an autonomous form of postcolonialism that was marked by the production of multiple conceptualisation...

The book explores how Latin America indicated an autonomous form of postcolonialism that was marked by the production of multiple conceptualisation...