Urban communities

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livableThe design of every aspect of the urban landscape-from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing-fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there.

Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities.

Scaling the Smart City: The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology engages with the smart city as a problem of scale.

Concern about rising crime rates, high levels of unemployment and anti-social behaviour of youth gangs within particular urban neighbourhoods has reinvigorated public and community debate into just what makes a functional neighbourhood.

Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery.

A substantial backyard has long been considered an iconic feature of the Australian suburb.

In every large city, there are marginal, criminal types who live on the fringes of the society.

As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing.

State-formation and the emergence of civilization have been two of the major arenas of debate in Aegean prehistory for the last twenty five years.

The origin and growth of cities in antiquity.

In this book, Coles explores the concept of idealism and why it necessary to the individual and society.

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II.

"e;A fascinating and daresay essential meditation on childhood, parenthood, and the importance of wild spaces for those wild creatures known as kids.

Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income.

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America.

Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city.

Strategies of Segregationunearths the ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality within and beyond schools in Oxnard, California.

By the second or third day that you're homeless, in the car with all your clothes, your pots and pans, everything, having to wash yourself in a public rest room, you logically start to feel dirty.

Violence in schools has more potential to involve large numbers of students, produce injuries, disrupt instructional time, and cause property damage than any other form of youth violence.

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Urban slum dwellersespecially in emerging-economy countriesare often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy.

Race and Ethnicity in America examines patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades.

How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest epicenters of the foreclosure crisis?

Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities.

Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.

This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectivesaesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and socialin the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperousa radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert.

A paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream even as the possibilities for achieving and maintaining it diminished.

Grit and Hopetells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college.

The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume.

Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America's most stable democracy.

At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world.

The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling.

Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world.

After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the ';star' of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me.

Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today.

San Diego in the 1930s offers a lively account of the city's culture, roadside attractions, and history-from the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom.

Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, "e;anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming.

Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong--more than four times the size of the American mafia.

The StrategistsBest Books About Asian American Identity,New YorkMagazineThe pioneering Asian American labor organizer and writer's vision for intersectional and anti-racist activism.

A People's Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism.

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world.

What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America?

Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America.

People have always grown food in urban spaces-on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks-but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that transforms our national food system.

This powerful work of gonzo journalism, predating the widespread acknowledgement of the opioid epidemic as such, immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse in the contemporary United States.

Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities.

Woven throughout with rich details of everyday life, this original, on-the-ground study of poor neighborhoods challenges much prevailing wisdom about urban poverty, shedding new light on the people, institutions, and culture in these communities.

New York is the city that never sleeps.