Urban Communities

In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived ci...

Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have ca...

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Subur...

Addressing participatory, transdisciplinary approaches to local stewardship of the environment, Grassroots to Global features scholars and stewards...

Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few ...

This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferatio...

A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so...

Always in the shadow of their more famous urban neighbors, small towns are consistently overlooked in historical research, especially in Europe. Th...

This book explores small town austere Britain. The text argues for a return to both dialectical thinking and politicized community research, in lig...

With an increase in urban crises arising from a growing population and rising affluence, and the inadequacy of conventional theories to predict the...

This book turns a compelling new lens on thinking about the history of Paris and photography. The invention of photography changed how history coul...

Suburbs and the relationships that sustain them have been subject to tremendous changes in the last fifty years, with changing work patterns, chang...

Despite the best hopes of the past half century, black urban pathologies persist in America. The inner cities remain concentrations of the uneducat...

Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America....

After World War II, communes and cooperative communities became internationally oriented in their membership and networking began to develop. Unlik...

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income irregular se...

The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries inc...

Since its initial publication in 1965, The Secular City has been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration of the relationships among the ris...