Urban communities

This book provides an important account of how the city in South Asia is produced, lived and contested.

This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema.

Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations to two cities at the global center, London and New York.

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Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city.

This book employs a fiction-based approach to address the revolving door of Black faculty and staff in American colleges and universities as a national crisis that needs to be resolved systematically.

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive history of Florence as the mid-19th century capital of the fledgling Italian nation.

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) is one of the most influential and best-known sociologists of the past century.

Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws.

To be effective, sovereignty must be secured through force or consent by those living in a territory, and accepted externally by other sovereign states.

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

What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white?

How do race and nature work as terrains of power?

This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed.

Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, well-being, social and economic outcomes.

Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration explores the interface between migration and architecture.

This book is set in Karachi, Pakistan and investigates the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban process and their impact on built form, addressing how locals associate with the urban spaces and how they value it.

The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city.

Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whalesa malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics todaywere first created by Alaska Natives in the early years of the twentieth century.

The importance of efficient urban governance needs no elaboration in an increasingly urbanising world.

Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world.

First published in 1984.

Bringing together contributions from social, political, and urban historians, this collection examines social movements in Western European cities from the 1950s to the 1980s.

This first volume of John Worth's substantial two-volume work studies the assimilation and eventual destruction of the indigenous Timucuan societies of interior Spanish Florida near St.

The growth of municipal waste is a common challenge found in the urbanised cities of Greater China, but the question of how to manage municipal waste is controversial.

This book offers an international overview of how to apply the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) to the 20th-century architectural heritage.

This text examines the Pacific War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, from the perspective of those who fought the wars and lived through them.

Policing Suspicion is an innovative examination of policing practices and the impact of these on patterns of arrest and prosecution in London, 1780-1850.

As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles.

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Traditionally, the study of 'power in the city' was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural renaissance known as the 'Second Sophistic'.

This book situates the study of Black Religion within the modern temporal and historical structures in the Atlantic World.

Ethno-nationalism presents a multitude of challenges to the structure of the international political system and to the internal governance of states.

Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

The book presents the proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2020), which took place online on October 27-29, 2020.

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "e;in crisis,"e; this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities.

Contemporary global politics poses urgent challenges - from humanitarian, migratory and environmental problems to economic, religious and military conflicts - that strain not only existing political systems and resources, but also the frameworks and concepts of political thinking.

Chicagos Authentic Founder traces the life and time of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable from Haiti through Louisiana, Peoria, Chicago, and Saint-Charles, Missouri, where he died in 1818.

International criminal justice has undergone rapid recent development.

This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology.

Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny.

The sixth, fully updated edition of this bestselling guide links the theory and practice of community work in an insightful and relatable read for students and practitioners alike.