Urban Communities

How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring in...

What are the suburbs? The popular vision of monotonous streets curving into culs-de-sac and emerald lawns unfurling from nearly identical houses wo...

Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city’s existing rhyt...

In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin...

In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin...

In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the...

We all have a natural nesting instinct - we know what makes a good place. And a consensus has developed among urban planners and designers about th...

Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stor...

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai ...

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic hist...

Surviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social ...

Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else t...

Interrogates the connections between a city’s physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal low...

In Street Harassment as Everyday Violence, Melinda A. Mills investigates women’s experiences with street harassment, recognizing this phenomenon as...

Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and ...

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan resi...

Sociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.   In 20...

The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed ...

Now an established global force, China has experienced a sustained period of staggering economic growth since policy reform in the 1970s. Chinese u...

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty...

Local elections are an increasingly popular area of research among scholars of Canadian political behaviour, offering invaluable insights into the ...