Urban communities

This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning.

Increasing urbanization and increasing urban density put enormous pressure on the relationships between people and place in cities.

American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans.

The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.

This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas.

Covering a timely topic, which is more and more frequently in the news, this book offers vignettes that will sharpen the reader's ability to recognize and respond to difficult situations sparked by identity differences among faculty, staff, and students in college and university settings.

Language and communication are central features of social behaviour.

This book examines how the media-including advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fiction-has used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in the United States.

A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model.

Narratives, in the context of urban planning, matter profoundly.

This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that the circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy.

In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C.

Originally published in 1990, and re-issued in 2020 with an updated Preface, this book shows how the UK has become a nation of home owners, and the effect it has had on people's lives, the impact which it has had on British society and the implications for those who have hitherto been excluded.

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.

The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions.

Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces.

This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China.

This edited collection addresses how therapy can engage with issues of race, culture, religion and spirituality.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century Kyiv was an important city in the European part of the Russian empire, rivaling Warsaw in economic and strategic significance.

Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding.

Exploring the relationship between gender and events, this book delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebration of gender equality in the context of the culture-led event.

As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles.

Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale.

This book examines local leadership and policy changes as a result of globalisation.

While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention.

A comparative history of the relocation and removal of indigenous societies in the Greater American Southwest during the mid-nineteenth century Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest offers a unique comparative narrative approach to the diaspora experiences of the Apaches, O odham and Yaqui in Arizona and Sonora, the Navajo and Yavapai in Arizona, the Shoshone of Utah, the Utes of Colorado, the Northern Paiutes of Nevada and California, and other indigenous communities in the region.

In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "e;Dixiecrats,"e; and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate.

This book explores how physical anthropologists struggled to understand variation in bodies and cultures in the twentieth century.

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland.

In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street.

From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill.

In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade.

This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation.

Engel examines changing politicians'' perceptions of the threat posed by opposition and how it influenced manipulations of judicial authority.

Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places.

A collection of newspaper columns by Marty Gervais, published in The Windsor Star.

Originally published in 1977.

This book provides insights in how the lack of coherent social policy leads to the displacement of vulnerable low-income families in inner-city neighborhoods facing gentrification.

In the nineteenth century many Canadians took pride in their country's policy of liberal treatment of Indians.

"e;Everything you know about Indians is wrong.

Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today.

The 1992 Rio Summit and subsequent literature and debate has focused on 'green' issues such as biodiversity, climate change and marine pollution.

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city.

How can we bring people together?

San Francisco has always had an affordable housing problem.

When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship.