Urban Communities

The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Daniel T. OBrien explains the transformative insights g...

Our traditional image of Chicago-as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ...

As urbanisation progresses, urban environments have been confronted with many challenges, such as air pollution and stormwater disaster. The latter...

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was ...

In photos and words, this irresistible volume showcases long-established great cities like Paris, Rome, New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as exc...

In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived ci...

Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have ca...

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Subur...

Addressing participatory, transdisciplinary approaches to local stewardship of the environment, Grassroots to Global features scholars and stewards...

Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few ...