Urban Communities

This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offe...

The development of smart cities is one of the most important challenges over the next few decades. Governments and companies are leveraging billion...

In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the loss of publicness of contemporary urban public places...

Winner of the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the authored book categoryUrban development is one of the leading worldwide threats to conser...

The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this globa...

There may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to ...

Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Ysuf al-Shirbns Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-S...

In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the stree...

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 local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and go...

The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods L...

Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during era...

Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during era...

A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to j...

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thin...

Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2024 Best Book Award, giv...

Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombays population grew twentyfold as the c...

Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions, we dwell in the age of fire the Pyro...

Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores Global Asia and the metropolization process, specifically from i...

Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often invo...

An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysisdrawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular cultureof the profound and tra...