Urban Communities

This open access book brings together different perspectives on migration and the city that are usually discussed separately, to show the special c...

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate a...

A groundbreaking expose on the rise of gun violence in recent years.Journalist Josiah Bates pulls back the curtain on a crisis that continues to pl...

This book examines how urban narratives explore the complexities of city life, including the diversity of its inhabitants, the challenges of urbani...

San Franciscos reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants th...

The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home ...

This book is the second installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music. Music has generated substantial interest among geog...

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate a...

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...

Your next crime fiction obsession Michael WoodA missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the ser...

A sequel to the classic Fires in the Bathroom that illuminates what adolescents most need from teachers in today's upsetting times The context ...

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the concept of livability has captured th...

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the concept of livability has captured th...

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicagos iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-de...

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicagos iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-de...

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a ...

Why and how local coffee bars in Italythose distinctively Italian social and cultural spaceshave been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas sinc...

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric centered on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-cla...