Urban Communities

Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produc...

This book explores whats happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities...

Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWI...

Smart City Standardization: Smart City Standards Across the Globe contains numerous existing standards that have emerged for smart cities and helps...

Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides a unique look at the relationship between...

Over a decade ago, the first edition of City Schools and the American Dream debuted just as reformers were gearing up to make sweeping changes in u...

Hip-hop, born after the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, is an expression and embodiment of liberation. This book explores the creative libe...

For many students in urban public schools, the routines of standards-based instruction and frequent testing remove the possibilities for sustained ...

This timely book demonstrates why there needs to be a more thoughtful and collaborative effort on the part of K12 schools, as well as institutions ...

In Cracks in the Schoolyard, Conchas challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical ...

To meet the needs of the fast-growing number of Latino/a English learners, this volume presents an approach to secondary education teacher preparat...

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just th...

Almost every major American city is experimenting with school choice - a deeply controversial idea that is dramatically reshaping public education....

This is a story of hope and triumph; how believing in all kids helped save a school and change education in the state of Colorado. College Now! chr...

This is a story of hope and triumph; how believing in all kids helped save a school and change education in the state of Colorado. College Now! chr...

This celebrated narrative shows how a teacher, alongside his 5th-grade students, co-created a curriculum based on the students needs, interests, an...

This important volume promotes the widespread application of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to better prepare K12 teachers to bring an informed asset-b...

In the 1940s, as Mexican families trekked north to the United States in search of a better life, tens of millions also left their towns and village...

In the 1940s, as Mexican families trekked north to the United States in search of a better life, tens of millions also left their towns and village...

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. A musician...

This book presents a curriculum model for preparing white preservice teachers to be successful in urban contexts. It is based on more than 15 years...

This book presents a curriculum model for preparing white preservice teachers to be successful in urban contexts. It is based on more than 15 years...

This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson. There are essays -- many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries...

Class Rules challenges the popular myth that high schools are the great equalizers. In his groundbreaking study, Cookson demonstrates that adolesce...

This book provides new and original insight on the senior living housing needs in Poland. It focuses on housing needs of the 60-74 age group that a...

In 1769, the Welsh antiquary Thomas Pennant admired Stockton-on-Tees as a 'handsome town' with a 'remarkably fine high street'. Only a century earl...

Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typic...

The first edition of The Color of Success was a groundbreaking, asset-based exploration of the educational trajectories of high-achieving, low-inco...

Building ghosts are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures. Mostly seen...

Focusing on graffiti scenes from São Paulo and Santiago in Chile, this innovative visual ethnography examines diverse forms of self-reference and m...

This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of worlds well-known urban concrete jung...

Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the worlds ...

In this powerful book, Arthur Levine (president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation) and coauthor Laura Scheiber revisit the South Bronx, where Levine...

2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Gold Award in Education 2019 PROSE Award in Education Finalist Speaking out against decades of injustice and ...