Urban communities

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities, and regional hubs.

Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures.

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space.

The widespread failure of so many interventions in First Nations and Inuit communities across Canada requires an explanation.

The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities.

For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century.

This book seeks to understand the coast as a place that has deep significance both historically and sociologically.

The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent.

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the transformative journey toward smart cities and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies in urban development.

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process?

What, other than numbers and power, justifies Canada’s assertion of sovereignty and jurisdiction over the country’s vast territory?

A comprehensive introduction to the particular challenges and opportunities of congregational ministry in urban settings.

In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities.

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism?

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics.

A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society.

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities.

This book sheds light on the cultural traits and religious beliefs of the Yarsan community.

There is a lack of international comparative housing studies, possibly because it requires thorough knowledge of the real estate market in question.

A sustainable city has been defined in many ways.

The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century.

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer.

This handbook provides an unbiased, in-depth assessment of the struggles, successes, and status of Native Americans in what is now the United States from the time of the first European settlers to the present.

This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised.

Winner of the 1995 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award for the best book on native studies Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario.

In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the popular and professional response to a widely felt sense of personal emptiness amid a culture in crisis.

The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and, specifically, of the politics of aggressive spatial containment and regularization of urbanity employed within the conflict in Israel/Palestine.

This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran.

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation.

This study gives a detailed analysis of the origins and rise of Tatar nationalism - one of the strongest national movements in the Russian Federation in the Gorbachev period.

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the streets of your city?

This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapegoated into prominence as America's "e;worst"e; family by the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, then "e;reinvented"e; in the 1970s as part of a vanguard of social rebellion.

Set against the backdrop of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, this book examines the impact on public policy from broader political decisions taken in relation to Olympic- and Paralympic-related policy.

This book features a selection of the best papers presented at two SIEV seminars held in Venice, Italy, in September 2017 and 2018, in the context of the Urbanpromo Green events.

The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr.

Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country.

When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt.

The development of U.

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America.

This book evaluates the impact of 20 years of urban policies in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.

Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society.

Childhood stories of family, country and belongingWhat is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia?

Examining urban environmental issues at the macro, municipal level down to the micro community and individual level, this volume features cities and metropolitan regions across the global north and south with case studies from the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe to India, Central America, South America and Africa.

This book offers state-of-the-art 'tools for thinking' for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.

This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seventeenth century England.

This book, first published in 1984, recounts the daily life, the politics, religion and leisure pursuits of Jamaicans in working- and middle-class Kingston.

Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world.

This book examines the planning of cities in global transition, looking at Australia's Greater Sydney as a case example.

Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other.