Urban Communities

Ragged London describes life in the rookeries of London, where forty people would live together in one room. Although life was a constant struggle ...

Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Bri...

In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a metho...

Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and E...

Maam, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move? Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with ...

Town and Gown is the story of the birth in the 1960s and survival through the 1970s of an inner city college, York College of the City University o...

This handbook of urban transportation planning presents case studies detailing 40 best practices from 33 states in the U.S. and 19 countries on ...

The stories in Plugging the Causal Breach explore the lives of a disparate collection of characters from French life. Many live in the shadow of th...

Nairobi, Kenyas capital, is a rambling, traffic-choked metropolis, bursting at the seams with people striving to earn a living on its mean streets....

A fascinating account of the growing Yes in My Backyard urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequal...

As zero-tolerance discipline policies have been instituted at high schools across the country, police officers are employed with increasing frequen...

An unapologetically raw account of coming of age broke in Trump-era Los Angeles in the social media-saturated Now, this meditation (almost manifest...