Urban communities books

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Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land...  Read More >>

Architecture and Social Behavior (1977) presents the findings from a five year programme of research concerned with...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986, this book was a major contribution to the national debate about racism, racial justice...  Read More >>

An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and...  Read More >>

This book addresses a relatively novel but highly debated topic within urban studies and geography, and presents...  Read More >>

An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and...  Read More >>

This book explores how cities are much more than their economies, demographies, or geographies. The chapters explore...  Read More >>

This book outlines an interdisciplinary normative framework that makes sense of the historical transformation of...  Read More >>

A heartbreaking account of grief, Black boyhood, and how we can support young people as they navigate loss. JahSun,...  Read More >>

Christian Preidel argues that building today is not a symphony in glass and concrete but a social endeavour where...  Read More >>

In an ethnography of the mall, Franziska Reiffen explores how people create socially meaningful places in cities...  Read More >>

A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, »The Vatican to Vegas« takes the reader from...  Read More >>

This book explores how cities are much more than their economies, demographies, or geographies. The chapters explore...  Read More >>

This book systematically examines historical perspectives, meticulously unveiling the nuanced narratives embedded...  Read More >>

Within the context of W.E.B. Du Bois’ question “How does it feel to be a problem?”, this volume examines the “problem”...  Read More >>

The book covers themes such as the Indus Valley civilization, the rise of cities in the Ganges valley, the cultural...  Read More >>

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Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment For the first...  Read More >>

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With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions,...  Read More >>

This book looks at the current trends in Athens, the capital city of Greece, and focuses on the processes of globalization...  Read More >>

Once heralded as the """"Black Mecca of the South,"""" Atlanta’s Black community is now under threat of dislocation...  Read More >>

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola’s three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity...  Read More >>

The book represents one of the earliest efforts to link the history of European and Asian immigrants. The many similarities...  Read More >>