Urban Communities

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or exclu...

This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and p...

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly ...

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a variety of t...

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the im...

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approache...

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the U...

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States. What happened next a...

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies. Contractual relations have in...

Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibiliti...

This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies. Under a multidiscplinar...

The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, th...

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors ...

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as safe havens for those seeking protection, as concent...

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 1...

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

Examining contestation and conflict management within holy cities, this book provides both an overview and a range of options available to those co...

Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them....

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in...

Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with t...

This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific pl...

In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the M...

This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city. It presents a range of approaches to view th...

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon elec...

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also ...

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity...

Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text, The New Urban Sociology is a broad and expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and...

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confr...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studi...

Recognised by the UNs Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural...

This book on the regional development theory analyzes the institutional environment, singling out three factors: the textile industry; government t...

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially a...

This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner,...

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban So...

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (19342015). Vesely was a leading authority on phil...

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.It de...

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use plan...

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The traditional firm has a need for innova...

The Metaphysical City examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to further understand its significance on urban planning and geo...

This book investigates the history of Arabian sqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ruins, ...

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of...

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to t...

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provi...

Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in con...

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...