Urban Communities

This book is based on a national literature search focusing on the best practices of cities, of all sizes and geographic locations, intended to ...

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course...

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens--and that the torturers...

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transfor...

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.'Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty' Bernardine Evaristo'Stag...

This remarkable history of a beloved Upper West Side church is in many respects a microcosm of the history of the Catholic Church in New York City....

We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outs...

Transforming Urban Transport brings into focus the origins and implementation pathways of significant urban transport innovations that have recentl...

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

American urban ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in debates about home foreclosures, images of 9/11, or postapocalyptic movies. Nic...

George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in Am...

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...

Global Cities and Urban Theory provides an innovative set of approaches to understanding some of the worlds major cities, working with concepts suc...

While journalists document the decline of small-town America and scholars describe the ascent of such global cities as New York and Los Angeles, th...

Several themes and perspectives are reunited under this collection of texts about urban developments in the Portuguese-speaking worlds of Brazil an...

Urban and industrial noise pollution is present in virtually every country in the world. Noise pollution studies are therefore needed to find solu...

Many cities of the developing countries have, for a long time, been burdened with the sprawling squatter settlements constituted of insanitary spac...

From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the...

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity. Community Health Eq...