Urban Communities

Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional circumstances created a unique...

'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. Th...

Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain t...

How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspecti...

Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of parks and parkways for Buffalo, New York, that drew national and inte...

Des formes d''association nouvelles entre les individus modifient sans cesse la realite sociale chinoise. En depit de l''indetermination et de l''i...

Les diverses facettes de la ville se donnent a voir non seulement a travers les travaux des sociologues, des historiens, des geographes, mais egale...

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a...

Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawi...

Africas urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and ...

Africas urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and ...

Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book r...

The Towns of Malaya examines the history, development, planning and architecture of the major towns of Peninsular Malaysia. The book is divided int...

Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been fo...

Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on...

China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai - its biggest, richest and mos...

Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital compone...

*One of NPR''s Books We Love 2021 * ''I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,'' Roy writes, ''of the endless chase for ...

In visually cataloging the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape, Best Practices proposes a new way of thinking a...