Urban Communities

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially ...

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgeta...

Based on the authors long experience in academic life and the public realm, especially in foreign policy, this book argues that a single categoric ...

How were space and movement in Roman cities affected by economic life? What can the study of Roman urban landscapes tell us about the nature of the...

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the...

The Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier is the third in-J. stallment in the Cities of the Prairie project. It completes an ongoing multi-generationa...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we fin...

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. ...

Part of the Religion and Citizenship series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities...

Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments. This book is the first to provide a cohesive an...

Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrin...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication c...

This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohe...

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, th...

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research. Architects and spatial thinkers from the arts, social s...

Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments ...

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this...

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

With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employ...

With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employ...

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate...

Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and l...

Mapping the transformative effects of Americas urban solidarity economies Solidarity economies, characterized by diverse practices of cooperation a...

Mapping the transformative effects of Americas urban solidarity economies Solidarity economies, characterized by diverse practices of cooperation a...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...