Urban Communities

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

For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban s...

Savannah is one of America's most beautiful and historic cities. Yet underneath the mint juleps, oaks bearded with Spanish moss and the splendor...

2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city For thirteen months...

How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social changeAssumptions about human behavior lie hidden in...

Township Economy provides a unique insight into township informal business and entrepreneurship. It is set in the post-apartheid period, in the thi...

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning ...

Chinas rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the ...

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

When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have be...

Violent acts over the past fifteen years have profoundly altered civil rituals, cultural identity, and the meaning of place in Tel Aviv. Three eve...

The idea of the global city, which focuses on globalisation's impact on the social, financial, and political reality of cities in advanced economie...

In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of...

Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students eyesWhile policymakers often justify school choice as a means to allev...

Think like an artist and design a classroom that workswellfor everyone In Brilliant Teaching, you will come to understand that equitywhen we view i...

What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to bette...

Revolutionary solutions for an American school system that is systemically failing Black and brown children In Justice Seekers, celebrated social j...

Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Clevelands historic preservation community duri...

Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book...