Urban Communities

The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focu...

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from regional backwater to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once...

Winner of the Urban History Association's 2005 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History Award. In traditional Chinese cities, a lively stree...

Chiang Mai (literally, new city) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the...

The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focu...

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the way...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' E...

'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own vers...

In Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes, Martin Field explores the ways in which people and communities across the UK have been striving to ...

London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual lif...

Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, iden...

The book takes off with a general overview which is an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. The next chapter is an analysis of the patte...