Urban communities

This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics.

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world.

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world.

The New Urban World Journal is published by Urban Shalom Publishing.

Community activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members.

In 1940 Brummett Echohawk, an eighteen-year-old Pawnee boy, joined the Oklahoma National Guard.

This book presents digital placemaking as a new testing ground for urban democracy.

The rise of cloud computing and Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized data analytics pipelines.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW URBANISM--FULLY REVISEDThe Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development, sustainable communities, and healthier living conditions.

This book analyzes New York City's stop-and-frisk data both pre- and post-constitutionality ruling, examining the existence of both profiling and unequal treatment among the three largest groups identified in the database: Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics.

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

A map for the masculine journey.

This book re-examines the role of urban policy and planning in relation to the housing market in an era of global uncertainty and change.

This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values.

Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous-this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival.

This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories which attempt to explain disaster crime.

The contributions in this volume map out how technologies are used and designed to plan, maintain, govern, demolish, and destroy the city.

Winner: Missouri Conference on History Book AwardErrata: Click here to read the missing page (110) from the book.

This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy.

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

The introduction of sports and recreational facilities into natural environments calls for reflection on their impact on fragile ecosystems.

This is the first international handbook on Black community mental health, focussing on key issues including stereotypes in Mental health, misdiagnoses, and inequalities/discrimination around access, services and provisions.

This book presents a socio-historical analysis of the Somali Muslim diaspora in Johannesburg and its impact on urban development in the context of Somali migrations in the Southern African Indian Ocean region from the end of the 19th Century to today.

The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention.

This book contributes to current debates on the relationship between architecture and the social sciences, highlighting current interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching as well as research and practice in architecture and urbanism.

Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts.

The Japanese urban alleyway, which was once part of people's personal spatial sphere and everyday life has been transformed by diverse and competing interests.

This is a timely work on a very dynamic field.

Capitals of Punk tells the story of Franco-American circulation of punk music, politics, and culture, focusing on the legendary Washington, DC hardcore punk scene and its less-heralded counterpart in Paris.

Der Autor blickt hinter die Kulissen der Traumfabrik Hollywood, führt zu Lichtspielpalästen und anderen architektonischen Highlights.

Part I of each volume will feature 5-7 major review chapters, including 2-3 long chapters reviewing topics of major concern to the American Jewish community written by top experts on each topic, review chapters on "e;National Affairs"e; and "e;Jewish Communal Affairs"e; and articles on the Jewish population of the United States and the World Jewish Population.

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing.

What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis?

At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in cities.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

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From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression.

This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers.

Take the next step to confronting racism in relationships and in everyday life.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South.

What does it mean to be middle class in contemporary global cities?

In 1861, just a few years before Confederation, 84 per cent of Canadians lived in rural areas; today, it's less than 20 per cent.

The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools.

This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security.