Urban Communities

ENG: Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a c...

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are availablebut e...

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the w...

Discover hidden gems around Manchester with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits...

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unpr...

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unpr...

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in ...

Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French contr...

Migration is no longer a movement from the rural to the urban, but rather from city to city or from the city to the metropolis in our swiftly urban...

Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understand...

In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about...

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy C...

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New ...

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New ...

This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the enginee...

While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occi...

On the basis of a national research project undertaken in England, this volume explores how and why young people's engagement is so important globa...

The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us goin...

Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the...

The book investigates the complexity of the Latin American mega cities and the multiple commitments of the apparatus of the state with a focus on t...