Urban Communities

Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New ...

A look back at how powerful politicians, business leaders, and a diverse cast of activists used a thwarted Olympics to shape the state of Colorado ...

Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of...

In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How d...

In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How d...

In Left Behind, a team of education scholars led by Edward P St John argues that American cities have been engaged for the past three decades in a ...

The collapse of the World Trade Center shattered windows across the street in Battery Park City, throwing the neighborhood into darkness and smothe...

An important contribution to the still evolving field of 'urban cultural studies,' Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first boo...

In Northwest of Boston, Stephen O'Connor's characters live the human drama fully in stories that range from the humorous to the poignant. They go t...

In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian ...

Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in t...