Urban Communities

In nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special occasions, such as the 1860 visit of the Prince of...

In nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special occasions, such as the 1860 visit of the Prince of...

Through social movements that are both grassroots and global, young leaders in San José, Costa Rica, have sought to create positive social change i...

Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canad...

Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies draws together postcolonial and indigenous thinking through the conceptual lens of core-periphery...

What defines a multicultural city? Policy? Geography? Demography? In Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North Am...

Urban Health: A Global Perspective, Fifteenth Edition outlines the problems, issues, and solutions to health in urban areas on a global scale. The ...

Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at th...

Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at th...

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsid...

This volume examines how urban potentiality emerges in performances that reclaim the city, acting as an emancipatory force when dominant patterns o...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we design, develop and adapt urban environments to better meet the needs and as...

The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. These are ...

The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, vir...

This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its lega...

The Beaches is one of Torontos best known and most admired neighbourhoods. It has no striking works of architecture or splendid public spaces, no m...

Given the reality of China's economic development and urbanization, this book studies the development of the private sector and the process of regi...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Cities explores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience and how they sha...

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru...

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru...

The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features ...

In Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City , Nunez and Sribnick explore the world of New York's poor children and families, from the era o...