Urban Communities

What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just betw...

American urban ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in debates about home foreclosures, images of 9/11, or postapocalyptic movies. Nic...

George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in Am...

In terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.3 billion i...

Global Cities and Urban Theory provides an innovative set of approaches to understanding some of the worlds major cities, working with concepts suc...

While journalists document the decline of small-town America and scholars describe the ascent of such global cities as New York and Los Angeles, th...

Several themes and perspectives are reunited under this collection of texts about urban developments in the Portuguese-speaking worlds of Brazil an...

Urban and industrial noise pollution is present in virtually every country in the world. Noise pollution studies are therefore needed to find solu...

Many cities of the developing countries have, for a long time, been burdened with the sprawling squatter settlements constituted of insanitary spac...

From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the...

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity. Community Health Eq...

Go here. Do that. Work here. Buy that.Spend each day bored, staring at a screen, wondering if this is really all there is.There is another way.My n...

In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday ...

The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for ho...

Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston's South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victo...

A cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the inner city symbol, to revea...

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneu...

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. The sta...

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded stre...

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

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

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive poli...

Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining...

Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining...

Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants...