Urban communities

Life now without access to electronic telecommunications would be regarded as highly unsatisfactory by most of the UK population.

Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities.

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present.

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the objectification and instrumentalization of Casablanca's margins as part of ongoing and contingent processes of 'modernization'.

Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the objectification and instrumentalization of Casablanca's margins as part of ongoing and contingent processes of 'modernization'.

From the paving of the Los Angeles River in 1938 and the creation of the G.

From the paving of the Los Angeles River in 1938 and the creation of the G.

How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes?

How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes?

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history.

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history.

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s?

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s?

This book examines spirituality in Singapore, showing how important the city state is for understanding contemporary global configurations of urban space, religion, and spirituality.

This book examines spirituality in Singapore, showing how important the city state is for understanding contemporary global configurations of urban space, religion, and spirituality.

Shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award 2023The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and 'urban branding' in the name of global capitalism.

Shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award 2023The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and 'urban branding' in the name of global capitalism.

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day.

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day.

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive history of Florence as the mid-19th century capital of the fledgling Italian nation.

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive history of Florence as the mid-19th century capital of the fledgling Italian nation.

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years?

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years?

This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course.

This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women's experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability.

This book shows how suburban sprawl is at least partially a consequence of government spending and regulation, and suggests anti-sprawl policies that can make government smaller and/or less intrusive.

This book provides an autobiographical and research-based exploration of the perceptions of Black middle and upper class preservice teachers about teaching and learning in high poverty urban schools.

This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of "e;ordinary cities"e; as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness.

This book explores some of the key challenges confronting the governance of cities in Africa, the reforms implemented in the field of urban governance, and the innovative approaches in critical areas of local governance, namely in the broad field of decentralization and urban planning reform, citizen participation, and good governance.

Focus on People and Migration paints a comprehensive picture of the UK's population, both now and in the future.

This book explores the many facets of black urban life from its genesis in the 18th century to the present time.

In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world.

This book assesses the instruments and measures geared towards determining the EU's relations with it's neighbours.

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation.

This book investigates why networks, some with joined-up governance remits, appeared ineffective in handling neighbourhood unemployment even in periods when the national unemployment levels dropped.

This volume about juvenile delinquency in the United States and United Kingdom includes a foreword, nine chapters organized in three parts, and an afterword.

Many of the world's leading authorities in history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major genocides of the twentieth century.

Invisible Crimes is an edited volume containing a collection of articles from a distinguished panel of academics.

The book comprises thirteen papers on environmental issues, with particular reference to future developments (for example, new technologies, paths in social and political theory, methodologies).

One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced.

In 1973 The New Criminology was published and quickly established itself as a key textbook in criminology, casting a major influence over a generation of scholars.

This innovative book offers a comprehensive assessment of policing in late modern Britain.

Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English.

Written by an internationally renowned authority in the field, the founder of the highly regarded School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, the book draws heavily on research done on three Continents: North America, Europe and Australia, to trace the discipline's historical evolution, its current problems, disappointing achievements, and promising trends.

This work analyses the vulnerability of America's land-based missile force to a pre-emptive Soviet strike as an issue in US strategic and political debate.

Judith Rumgay explores theoretical explanations of the alcohol-crime relationship, critically analyses their empirical support in research, and develops a perspective based on 'expectancy theory', which suggests that alcohol facilitates offending less through its real pharmacological effects than through the variety of common sense beliefs about those effects which are embedded in everyday life.

Political scandals, governmental instability and the poison-gas attack in central Tokyo show that Japan is passing through a serious social crisis.