Urban communities books

How can we conceptualize the ambivalent pattern of change in a housing estate if we consider dynamic processes and...  Read More >>

This volume explores the past and present of urban resilience to understand its potential to create a more sustainable,...  Read More >>

This book deals with the challenge of housing in connection with the processes of migration, climate change, and...  Read More >>

Explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The book...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979 and with a case-study from Indonesia, this volume examines the question of planning...  Read More >>

This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China.  Read More >>

Explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The book...  Read More >>

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From the incomparable New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Tamara Shopsin comes a debut novel about a New York...  Read More >>

From the incomparable New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Tamara Shopsin comes a debut novel about a New York...  Read More >>

In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically...  Read More >>

This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties...  Read More >>

Environment precedes everyday life. Therefore, society is an environmental phenomenon, and it must be examined as...  Read More >>

The anthology forwards innovative ways of studying everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion,...  Read More >>

Brooklyn Tides provides a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting...  Read More >>

Urban appropriation strategies – an interdisciplinary account of urban space-making practices in Europe today.  Read More >>

""Art and the City"" faces the complex issues of the new multicultural urban dynamics generated by the globally...  Read More >>

Presenting a new narrative about social life in seemingly divided cities, this book is an invitation to see Maputo...  Read More >>

This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma...  Read More >>

This comparative analysis of global shopping centers provides a greater understanding of their influence on urban...  Read More >>

Who wins and loses in urban regeneration? Neighbourhoods in transition in London and Berlin.  Read More >>

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The large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban...  Read More >>

The vitality of urban heritage lies less in its historical and spatial formations than in the dynamic and often...  Read More >>

Art, architecture, and activism are entangled in neoliberal urban transformation. Urban curating inspires care and...  Read More >>