Urban communities

Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great majority of Australians live in a small number of large metropolitan areas focused on the state capital cities.

Developing countries worldwide have been embarking on 'smart cities' programmes using new technology solutions to improve public services.

Domestic burglary has fallen significantly over the past 20 years in many countries, but still remains a high volume crime.

Evictions in the UK examines the relationships between tenants, landlords, housing providers and government agencies and the tensions and conflicts that characterise these relations.

Originally published in 2019, this book provides a comprehensive account of a formative historical period, uniquely describing Renaissance architecture as the physical manifestation of political and economic change.

Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history.

In the 21st Century, the world will see an unprecedented migration of people moving from rural to urban areas.

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.

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years.

The primary aim of this edited volume is to document the current theories, best practices, and technological advancements in the move towards a Smart Built Environment (SBE).

This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China.

Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods.

Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation provides a comprehensive picture of global UHI micro-thermal interaction in different built environments.

New York in Cinematic Imagination is an interdisciplinary study into urbanism and cinematic representations of the American metropolis in the twentieth century.

The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation.

This book addresses how to estimate substance use and thereby evaluate policies intended to reduce the harms caused by drugs and other substances.

HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD NOMINEEFrom basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.

A remarkable collection of artworks that shine a light on the city's grand edifices, quirky nooks, hidden quarters and modern architecture with equal affection and pride.

Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013.

Over the past several decades, numerous planning movements have taken root within the United States.

The ten years before this book was originally published in 1986 saw major restructuring in the economies of the developed world.

In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.

This book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia.

The book provides a critical analysis of the geographies of everyday life, looking at how spatial practices craft w(r)iggle room to cope with the boundaries saturated by normativity, power relations, and inequalities.

The book contains a selection of papers on urban governance in its multiple perspectives.

Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world.

The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present.

Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker.

The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: 'Restoring What Was Ours' offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of land restitution programs.

The first ethnography to examine the role of urban transformation, caste and language in shaping India''s contemporary news culture.

When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital left too.

By analyzing the interactions between China's central government and its local governments and enterprises, this book constructs an analytical framework of government-enterprise collusion, analyzing the impact of collusion within the China model on Chinese society.

Today, we know cities as shared spaces with the potential to both threaten and promote human health: while urban areas are known to amplify the transmission of epidemics like Ebola, urban residency is also associated with longer, healthier lives.

This volume explores the phenomenon and trend of cultural buildings by investigating 10 typical cities in China from the first, second, and third tiers, and from the Chinese diaspora.

Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as examples.

Wie kommt es, dass heute die Hälfte der Menschheit in Städten lebt?

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

In his influential 1991 book Edge City, Joel Garreau argued that every American city "e;is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles, with multiple urban cores"e;.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

In the first systematic documentation of the pattern and processes of land development taking place in China in the last two decades George C.

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This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogota led to a transformation in the social role of plants - showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a 'floristic island' formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants.

An ambitious and affecting new drama by Academy Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Patrick Shanley.

Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia presents a detailed examination of the underlying issues of urban life in the Far East.

This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies.

This book collects the best papers presented at a recent conference organized by SIEV (Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation) to promote the interaction between Appraisal and Valuation and other social sciences to study the effects of migration on value and social, spatial and economic systems in a multicultural city.

Social media is restructuring urban practices-through ad-hoc experimentation, commercial software development, and communities of participation.

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy.

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas.