Urban Communities

At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial huband th...

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in...

This book is the first and, so far, only publication to elaborate on all the stages of one of the many Urban Regeneration projects implemented in T...

A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley: These essays show him writing about cities and ...

Poverty in Canada s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past dec...

This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Crit...

Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offe...

Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional circumstances created a unique...

'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. Th...

Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain t...

How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspecti...

Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of parks and parkways for Buffalo, New York, that drew national and inte...

Des formes d''association nouvelles entre les individus modifient sans cesse la realite sociale chinoise. En depit de l''indetermination et de l''i...

Les diverses facettes de la ville se donnent a voir non seulement a travers les travaux des sociologues, des historiens, des geographes, mais egale...

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a...

Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawi...

Africas urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and ...

Africas urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and ...

Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book r...

The Towns of Malaya examines the history, development, planning and architecture of the major towns of Peninsular Malaysia. The book is divided int...

Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been fo...

Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on...

China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai - its biggest, richest and mos...

Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital compone...

*One of NPR''s Books We Love 2021 * ''I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,'' Roy writes, ''of the endless chase for ...

In visually cataloging the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape, Best Practices proposes a new way of thinking a...

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventi...

Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general de...

Nearly 600 captivating stories of notable former residents of Manhattans Upper West Side, some famous, some forgotten What do Humphrey Bogart and P...

The Things of Life is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographies of Sovi...

Audubon Parks journey from farmland to cityscape The study of Audubon Parks origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural ...

The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are ...

After sixty years and fifteen editions and reprints in Italy, this classic, groundbreaking work in the field of historical urban studies is now pub...

How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea...

The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals and self-help relationship books reflect the new ways Americans seek close, personal relati...

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations In ...

A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society From TV's real housewives to The Wolf of Wall Stre...

Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender...

''Beautifully woven'' Sunday Times''Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York ...