Urban Communities

Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influentialand provocativeauthors of our time. With char...

In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be indi...

Based on research conducted in Black communities, along with over thirty years of teaching experience, Colour Matters presents a collection of essa...

Based on research conducted in Black communities, along with over thirty years of teaching experience, Colour Matters presents a collection of essa...

During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and ...

Young, single women emerged in the late 1990s as powerful consumers in the wave of real estate development that was reshaping the landscape of citi...

The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and acclaimed guide to the High Line by the leading expert on the history of the parknow in a fully revised edi...

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape arch...

The 19921995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of a...

This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives-aesthetic, architectural, environmental, politica...

Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China analyzes urban aesthetics in the Peoples Republic of China at the turn of ...

How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that l...

Given the realities of climate change and sea level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, ...

In Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the ca...

There are few more powerful questions than, Where are you from or Where do you live? People feel intensely connected to cities as places and to oth...

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experimentsunique interdisciplinar...