Urban communities

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.

The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rightsFrom North Dakota's Standing Rock encampments to Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to religious freedom to protect their sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestral remains.

The City: The Basics provides a brief yet compelling overview of the study of cities and city life.

The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases.

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

Before Marcus Garvey and W.

During the last two decades, rapid economic growth and development in India has been based upon the mass employment of informal labour.

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing.

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.

This book examines the afterlives of the built environment produced through early 20th-century settler colonialism.

This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy.

This book examines the emerging problems and opportunities that are posed by media innovations, spatial typologies, and cultural trends in (re)shaping identities within the fast-changing milieus of the early 21st Century.

Drawing on more than 22 years' research, this book presents an exhaustive chronology of the Great Sioux Campaign in three parts: the U.

Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma.

In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power.

Originally published in 1987, Forecasting Techniques for Urban and Regional Planning is an introduction to the various analytical techniques which have been developed and applied in urban and regional analysis in planning practice.

This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires,  continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century.

The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples.

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

Drama!

Born and raised on the windswept prairies of northwest Wyoming, Alan Swallow (1915-1966) nurtured a passion for literature and poetry at an early age.

This volume brings together expert contributors across different fields of private law to comment on key decisions by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC).

This Element examines why we should care how cities matter, and what difference does it make to our daily lives.

Most African cities are human settlements that lack the systems needed for effective land use planning.

A small but growing group of today's knowledge workers actively seek a lifestyle of freedom, using technology to perform their jobs, traveling far and wide, and moving as often as they like.

In 1911-1912, French-Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma.

Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.

This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia.

The 2nd edition of Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict provides timely and useful information about antagonism and reconciliation in all contexts of public and personal life.

When Canada hosted the 1976 Montreal Olympics, few Canadian spectators waved flags in the stands.

Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience.

2016 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award - Winner * 2017 Speaker's Book Award - ShortlistedA man of two cultures in an era where his only choices were to be a trailblazer or get left by the wayside Dr.

Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions.

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries.

Based on over five years of ethnographic fieldwork in Syria, Exemplary Life focuses on the life of a Damascus woman, Myrna Nazzour, who serves as an aspirational figure in her community.

Rapid changes in urban life are continually reshaping the physical and social environment of the city.

A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023.

Cities and urban societies have many faces.

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye - crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few.

Migration ist ein Schicksal, das Menschen in allen historischen Epochen und allen Kulturkreisen betroffen hat und betrifft.

This important new book penetrates that veil of secrecy with thirteen interviews tape recorded in the chambers of the respective judges.

This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts.

Evaluates the nature of the international governance of minority rights in the context of the enlargement of the European Union.

This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

Molas, the distinctive blouses made and worn by Kuna women in Panama, are collected by thousands of enthusiasts as well as by anthropological museums all over the world.