Urban Communities

London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual lif...

In this new paperback edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley in 2013 these essays show Nairn ...

Throughout the past thirty years a small number of city-regions have achieved unprecedented global status in the world economy while undergoing rad...

The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Wa...

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the lifes work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed...

Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer...

In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, whi...

Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transi...

How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapseand at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken...

The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete wi...

The Age of Great Cities erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as migrants poured into imperial and regional ...

Offers a comprehensive survey of affordable housing across the world. Presents numerous case-studies and best-practices on affordable housing desig...

Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the worlds first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban centres o...

The city: a place of hopes and dreams, destruction and conflict, vision and order. The first city atlas, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, was publishe...

Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the ce...

Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...

'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime.' Bestselling author Kerry Kaya.Young, blonde, beautiful and bored, Annette Lambri...

This book serves as a critical review of Social Urbanism, defined as a socio-political and practical approach to urban globalisation, deriving fr...

In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromis...

The infamous Scramble for Africa in the late 19th and 20th centuries disrupted the entire African continent with enduring repercussions. Morocc...

A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions i...

Neighborhood Technologies expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic ...

Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlem...

An urban neighborhood remakes itself every dayand unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But its also peoplethe p...

How politics and race shaped Baltimore's distinctive disarray of cultures and subcultures.Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its...

Since the financial collapse of 2000, the 'flat white economy'-named after the coffee popular with young workers of media, internet and creative bu...

Urban Farms provides in-depth profiles of 16 innovative farms located in major metropolitan areas across the country, each operated by passionate i...

Today more people live in cities than in the countryside, mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones and machines outnumber people on a new ...