Urban Communities

Urban planning has always been a preeminent instrument of political power. In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insi...

Car ownership is central to the U.S. culture wars about global warming and urban sprawl. While the environmental issues surrounding car use are wel...

From the shaping of new homelands in the Cherokee Nation to the export of sand from Cambodia to shore up urban expansion in Singapore, The Social L...

From the shaping of new homelands in the Cherokee Nation to the export of sand from Cambodia to shore up urban expansion in Singapore, The Social L...

An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda.Master Plans and Minor Acts examines a material politics of r...

From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban dev...

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...

All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.   Traversed by thousands of trains an...

The surge of urbanization in contemporary society has set in motion a variety of challenges, particularly in the relationship between insects and u...

Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil. Based on ethnographic research and her ex...

An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda.Master Plans and Minor Acts examines a material politics of r...

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe....

This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, and political power cope with...

Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps us understand change processes in society, the wider context and the ecological consequences of hum...

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban greening from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Thro...

Examines how young male migrants in urban Nairobi navigate the tension between expectations of success and repetitive failure. Pipeline is a low-i...

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment to...

How can social cohesion be achieved in a meritocratic and multicultural global city-state? Meritocracy poses a paradox: On one hand, it integrates ...

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainab...