Urban communities

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy.

In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E.

City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.

In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chavez was elected.

In Now Is the Time!

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001).

Fredric Jameson is one of the most influential literary and cultural critics writing today.

Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities.

While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed on what constitutes safe, decorous driving or who is capable of it.

Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara.

What happens when the market tries to help the poor?

Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services.

Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty.

With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior.

In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women's wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers.

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory, on its own terms.

While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades.

In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City.

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Hurricane Sandy was a fierce demonstration of the ecological vulnerability of New York, a city of islands.

The world is getting faster.

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor.

Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions-such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment-that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens.

In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district.

On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "e;hot babes,"e; actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night.

For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence.

Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive.

In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics.

Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century.

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water.

In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes.

In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality.

In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M.

In Migrants and City-Making Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions.

In 1992, Calhuasi, an isolated Andean town, got its first road.

A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of children in historical and contemporary legal discourse.

The exploration of the North-South relationship and the growth of of antebellum Mobile.

Traces the communication strategies of various constituencies in a Chicago neighborhood, offering insights into the challenges that beset diverse urban populations and demonstrating persuasively rhetoric's power to illuminate and resolve charged conflicts Candice Rai's Democracy's Lot is an incisive exploration of the limitations and possibilities of democratic discourse for resolving conflicts in urban communities.

2016 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AND JANE JACOBS URBAN COMMUNICATION BOOK AWARD FINALIST Explores how the suburban imaginary, composed of the built environment and imaginative texts, functions as a resource for living out the "e;good life"e; Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson's Suburban Dreams offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the "e;good life"e; their residents pursue.

Groundbreaking essays in urban archaeology highlight the impact of towns and cities on the southern landscape.

A powerful ethnographic portrait of hunger, dignity, and community in America.

For decades, concerns have been raised about the consequences of relentless suburban expansion in the United States.

The early returns from Census 2000 data show that the United States continued to undergo dynamic changes in the 1990s, with cities and suburbs providing the locus of most of the volatility.

During the past decade, dozens of large cities lost population as jobs and people kept moving to the suburbs.

Some of today's best urban leaders don't work for the governmentthey can be found in nonprofit organizations that serve the working class and poor populations.

A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publicationRental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States.

Gated communities are a new "e;hot button"e; in many North American cities.

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline.

Results from Census 2000 have confirmed that American cities and metropolitan areas lie at the heart of the nation's most pronounced demographic and economic changes.

History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations.