Urban communities

First book to explore dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities for students, policy makers and the general reader.

First book to explore dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities for students, policy makers and the general reader.

Uses interviews with evacuees and service provider reports to analyse the response to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina.

Uses interviews with evacuees and service provider reports to analyse the response to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

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

This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates variables from the models of Supreme Court decision making.

This book explores how the design characteristics of homes can support or suppress individuals' attempts to create meaning in their lives, which in turn, impacts well-being and delineates the production of health, income, and educational disparities within homes and communities.

This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography's resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience.

This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain.

This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users.

Several Asian cities have already invested in initiatives to build and promote Green Cities.

There is now a palpable sense of optimism about the role of cities and transnational city-networks in global climate governance.

This book explores the use of handmade crafts as a vehicle for protest.

This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila.

In this book, the author seeks to understand China's urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state.

This book investigates death after police contact in England and Wales in the twenty-first century.

This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century.

This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements.

This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them.

This book brings small places to the main stage in an exploration of the nature of immigration in rural areas and small towns in Europe.

This book details the current neoliberal restructuring of cities and its impact on the rise and spread of resistance and uprisings in different cities throughout the world.

This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment.

This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.

This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa.

This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China's urban governance.

This book assesses recent migration patterns in Europe, which have significantly included 'return migration' against the stream of East-West migration.

This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco's most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin.

This book provides critical insight into the experience of multi-owned property, and showcases different cultural responses across the Asia-Pacific region.

With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically.

Performance Anxiety in Media Culture explores the culture of performance anxiety in the media-saturated contemporary world.

This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces.

While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities and urban divisions are stark.

Considering Asian cities ranging from Taipei, Hong Kong and Bangkok to Hanoi, Nanjing and Seoul, this collection discusses the socio-political processes of how neoliberalization entwines with local political economies and legacies of 'developmental' or 'socialist' statism to produce urban contestations centered on housing.

The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse.

Proposing a renovation of the metaphor of the urban fabric, Interwoven Cities develops an analysis of how cities might be woven into alternative patterns, to better sustain social and ecological life.

As the former capital of two great empires-Eastern Roman and Ottoman-Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism.

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This book explores the meaning of home for Cypriot refugees living in London since their island was torn apart by war.

This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo.

This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods.

This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion.

Pairing cultural analysis in urban contexts with interdisciplinary approaches to political culture, this book argues that recent cultural production in Spain grapples with the conditions and possibilities for social transformation in dialogue with the ongoing crisis, neoliberal governance, and political culture in Spain's democratic history.

This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic use of mega-events in its modern development.

This book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in defining the notion of urban citizenship in Barcelona since 1979.

In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador.

This book challengesthe prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigrationpolicy-making.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

Male Circumcision in Japan offers an analysis of the surgical procedure based on extensive ethnographic investigation, and is framed within historical and current global debates to highlight the significance of the Japanese case.

This book offers a close look at forced evictions, drawing on empirical studies and conceptual frameworks from both the Global North and South.