Urban Communities

This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality...

The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and commu...

Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research among several differen...

Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is ...

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists, Fractured Militancy tells the story of postapartheid South Africa from t...

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...

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

In todays new economyin which good jobs are typically knowledge or technology basedmany well-educated and culturally savvy young people are instead...

The experience of Hong Kongs innovative and creative industries and the challenges they face serves as an important case study for other Chinese an...

An engaging tale of ordinary people in an extraordinary time, capturing the growing excitement and fervour of the 2014 Independence Referendum that...

At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial huband th...

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in...

This book is the first and, so far, only publication to elaborate on all the stages of one of the many Urban Regeneration projects implemented in T...