Urban communities

Originally published in 1938, and as a third edition in 1974, this volume presents the results of original research into the economic aspects of the transition from the medieval manuscript to the modern printed book.

The Secret History of Our Streets explores six roads spread across inner London - from Camberwell, Holland Park and Islington to Shoreditch, Deptford and Bermondsey - through the experiences of the people who lived there.

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing.

Re-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization, and Urban Spaces examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces.

This book proposes the concept of urban multiple habitats and then analyzes its corresponding classification, function and potential supply capability.

As the enduring "e;last frontier,"e; Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire.

An academic book is much more than paper and ink, pixels and electrons.

In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "e;Dixiecrats,"e; and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate.

The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed.

This book presents an original interpretation of the building history of London in terms of its evolving political economy.

Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating.

Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over whether identities exist or not.

Islamic jurisprudence is a much misunderstood system.

This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work.

This book takes readers to the village of Sheltozero in northern Russia.

This book explores China's eco-development strategies and practices from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as well as the stakeholders who are key players for China's eco-development.

This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribes encounter with citizenship.

"e;A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America's housing crisis.

This much-needed study documents positive Arab-American contributions to American life and culture, especially in the last decade, debunking myths and common negative perceptions that were exacerbated by the 9/11 attacks and the War on Terror.

This book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing, comparing and promoting territorial governance in policy relevant research.

This book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.

This book presents the key interactions in local government and public enterprise, drawing together the challenges for local governance in the practice of public entrepreneurship and its response to collaboration, place and place making.

Problem-Based Learning is a way of learning that presents a practical problem scenario in the context of which learning is conducted.

Neighbourhoods of Poverty is concerned with the spatial dimension of urban social exclusion and integration.

Originally published in 1990, The Isolated City State asks the questions, why have the world's major cities experienced explosive growth?

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism.

This book provides an in-depth historical exploration of the risk and protective factors that generate disproportionality in the psychological wellness, somatic health, and general safety of Black men in four industrialized Euronormative nations.

Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles.

This book investigates the complex and unpredictable temporalities of waste.

The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history.

Examines methods of new town developers in land acquisition, financing, taxation, relationships with governmental authorities, etc.

Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate.

This expansive, four-volume ready-reference work offers critical coverage of contemporary issues that impact people of color in the United States, ranging from education and employment to health and wellness and immigration.

Though relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated in the popular imagination with Houston.

Das Werk ist dem Thema "Aktuelles zum Stockwerkeigentum – insbesondere aus der Sicht des Notariats" gewidmet.

Today, public space has become a fruitful venue for surveillance of many kinds.

Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States.

In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically.

Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces.

This book, framed through the notion of double consciousness, brings postcolonial constructs to sociopolitical and pedagogical studies of youth that have yet to find serious traction in education.

Structural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country's founding.

This book, first published in 1996, examines an important developmental transition: the formation of identity, as well as the influence that having a well-developed identity may have, on a sample of adolescents living in urban Chicago.

Focusing on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers, this book traces the two cultures and their interactions from 1680, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when the Cherokees first signed a treaty with the United States.

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.

This book takes a practical approach to understanding and describing collaborative governance for resolving environmental problems.

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "e;disorderly"e; people continue to occupy public space in many American cities.