Urban Communities

*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...

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventi...

Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general de...

Nearly 600 captivating stories of notable former residents of Manhattans Upper West Side, some famous, some forgotten What do Humphrey Bogart and P...

The Things of Life is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographies of Sovi...

Audubon Parks journey from farmland to cityscape The study of Audubon Parks origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural ...

The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are ...

After sixty years and fifteen editions and reprints in Italy, this classic, groundbreaking work in the field of historical urban studies is now pub...

How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea...

The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals and self-help relationship books reflect the new ways Americans seek close, personal relati...

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations In ...

A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society From TV's real housewives to The Wolf of Wall Stre...

Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender...

''Beautifully woven'' Sunday Times''Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York ...