Urban communities

In villages around India, many people have no facilities that provide adequate health care and education, despite the Indian government allocating an enormous amount of funding.

Sisterly Love: Women of Note in Pennsylvania History is a collection of biographical sketches of women who have made or are making significant contributions to Pennsylvania history.

Since the American Revolution, African American women have served in every U.

What is it to be truly human at work?

Against John Ogbu's oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele's disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

A highly amusing and satirical look at what happens when grungeland meets suburbia head-on.

Labor Avoidance is about work, something everyone hates, and something everyone longs to escape.

Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula serves as a standard textbook in graduate and senior level undergraduate classes in colleges and universities to contribute to the existing mass communication and ICT literature.

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

Studying Charles Tilly (1929-2008), American sociologist, historian and political scientist, is essential for understanding political change and social conflict.

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In this book, Robert Leslie Fisher contends that thanks to misguided university and government policies, we have created a science elite that does not represent the demographics of the nation.

This book highlights important but insufficiently documented dimensions of the experience of English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States.

A peacemaking approach to criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach to the treatment of crime and the offender.

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) is one of the most influential and best-known sociologists of the past century.

Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups.

The Audacity to Teach!

In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

Hermes on Two Wheels shows the dynamic world of the bicycle messenger through a sociological lens, based on a five-year participant observation study.

When densely populated urban areas face severe crises-natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration-they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems.

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization.

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization.

Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form.

Since the mid-1990s Ireland has experienced an extraordinary phase of economic and social development.

In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world.

Founded in 1909 as a "e;garden suburb"e; of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival.

In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City.

With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation.

Faith holds up a photo of the boarded-up, vacant house: "e;It's the first thing I see.

In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world.

A novella from Caroline Smailes featuring characters from her critically acclaimed debut, In Search of Adam.

Collected in one volume, here are the true life stories of London ambulance driver, Tom Reynolds.

'Stuart does not like the manuscript.

Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.

A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.

How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today's inequalitiesWinner of the Lewis Mumford Prize, granted by the Society for American City and Regional Planning HistoryHonorable mention for the Joe Trotter Jr.

Increasing numbers of urban dwellers has led to many of us feeling alienated from the natural world.

'Chinatowns' are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world.

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.

To generate opportunities for transformative learning, educators must create learning environments that help students feel safe and encourage them to grapple with potentially difficult material.

Faith holds up a photo of the boarded-up, vacant house: "e;It's the first thing I see.

While the night has long been associated with crime and fear, over recent decades 'nightlife' has become increasingly associated with the creative economy, tourism, sociability, job growth, and urban regeneration.

While the night has long been associated with crime and fear, over recent decades 'nightlife' has become increasingly associated with the creative economy, tourism, sociability, job growth, and urban regeneration.

Many believe that the urban underclass in America is a large, rapidly increasing proportion of the population; that crime, teenage pregnancy, and high school dropout rates are escalating; and that welfare rolls are exploding.

Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today.

Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today.

We shape mobility with words, and in turn, those words shape how we move, build, and experience our cities.