Urban Communities

One of Smithsonian Magazine's Favorite Books of 2022With wildlife thriving in cities, we have the opportunity to create vibrant urban ecosystems th...

A cutting-edge, solutions-oriented analysis of how we can reimagine cities around the world to build sustainable futures.   What would it take to m...

On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. ...

This is the first ethnographic exploration of gender, race and class amongst British born or raised Arabs in London. It takes a critical look at th...

South Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter-racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 1940s, South LA has been pred...

Honorable Mention, 2021 Edited Collection Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of Food and Society How gentrification uproots the ur...

Can the North Atlantic Area become a security community--a community like some other historical groups, in which warfare among members becomes high...

While the nation's GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the A...

Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helpe...

Why millions of Latinx people dont access the healthcare system, even in times of need More than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care ...

How the suburbs can give rise to campaigns for progressive change

In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plight...

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrificat...

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of mult...