Urban Communities

Spatial Futures invites readers to imagine power and freedom through the lens of the Black Outdoors, a transdisciplinary spatial concept that opera...

The Sensation of Security explores how private security guards are a permanent, conspicuous fixture of everyday life in the Brazilian city of Rio d...

Corruption Plots illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capital...

An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of childrens rights to case studies d...

In low-income U.S. cities, street fights between teenage girls are common. These fights take place at school, on street corners, or in parks, when ...

Nestled within the rolling hills and tree-filled landscape of Weardale, Bishop Auckland is an attractive market town with a rich collection of buil...

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, ...

Candid and intimate accounts of the factory-worker tragedy that shaped American labor rights On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth flo...

Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, sh...

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobss ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobss First ...

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...

Three weeks after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a New York City police officer shot and killed a fifteen-year-old black youth...

In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing natio...

The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of Americas third largest water system.  Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the ...

This is the first anthropological monograph of Muslim and Hindu lives in contemporary Myanmar. In it, Judith Beyer introduces the concept of we-for...

This edition of the World Cities Report seeks to provide greater clarity and insights into the future of cities based on existing trends, challenge...

Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place.   Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social sc...

Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place.   Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social sc...

Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker. Housing in the Unite...

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighbor...