Urban communities

Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs.

Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a 'world as design' over the natural world.

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question.

Cities are stepping forward to address the critical sustainability challenges of the 21st century.

Against a backdrop of continually growing global Islamophobia, this handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, theories, debates, and developments in gendered Islamophobia, unpacking how Western, Orientalist constructions of Muslim men and women affect the lived experiences of Muslim men and women; impact social, legal, and criminological policies, practices, and discourse; and give rise to resistance against gendered Islamophobia.

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Against the background of a growing tendency among state and local governments in the United States to vie against one another, spending public funds, and foregoing corporate tax revenues in order to attract private investment, this book offers an analysis of local economic development and business recruitment in the automotive industry.

This book deals with Law of Waqf (Muslim Endowment Law) and its judicial response in India.

Wer kennt sie nicht, die Freuden und Leiden der Nachbarschaft?

This book presents thirteen chapters which probe the "e;tales less told"e; and "e;pathways less traveled"e; in refugee camp living.

This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.

The city of Clermont-Ferrand in central France is inextricably linked to the global tire company Michelin-not only by the industrial, social, and economic realities that tie employees to employer, but also by a multi-generational, regional belief in the company's entrepreneurial mythos, the so-called "e;Michelin spirit.

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question.

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.

This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony's first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible.

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Detailed reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important center of the prehistoric world At the time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, thousands of earthen platform mounds dotted the landscape of eastern North America.

Based on empirical studies, this book investigates the particular urban history of the North from the 17th century until today in a comparative, Northern perspective.

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.

This book explores how the fragile and lengthy process of developing a city brand can be carefully managed.

The twelve million Muslims living in western and eastern (non-CIS) Europe are confronted with the combined, localised effects of xenophobia, nationalism, an historical stigma attached to Islam and a contemporary fear of the 'global Islamic threat'.

Puerto Ricans in the United States begins by presenting Puerto Rico-the land, the people, and the culture.

Huge numbers of people want to write for children, but it is notoriously difficult to find a publisher in this increasingly comeptitive area.

Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services.

The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of 'planetary urbanisation'.

This anthology of research is divided into five sections: definition of the urban system, structural characteristics, distribution of urban growth, transportation networks and interaction between cities, and the impact of growth on urban behaviour and the rural economy.

This edited collection examines joint efforts by Latinos and African Americans to confront problems faced by populations of both groups in urban settings (in particular, socioeconomic disadvantage and concentration in inner cities).

This book explores continuity and change in British multiculturalism.

Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time quietly writing a story that effectively emerged as the first Indigenous novel released in Canada.

In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects.

For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.

Serpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of uranium mining at Elliot Lake, Ontario.

Brings together arguments focussing on domestic and international factors to offer a coherent theory of the causes of ethnic cleansing.

The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies.

This volume contains five chapters that present highly original research on Siberias unique history by five Russian scholars.

"Hace ya décadas que se detecta que los tribunales/cortes supremos/as no cumplen eficientemente con su labor.

This book reports on cutting-edge research related to social and occupational factors.

This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective.

The book makes serious theoretical contribution to the field of political economy in indigenous development, public policy, sociology and development studies.

The Politics of Race is an excellent resource for students and general readers seeking to learn about race policies and legislation.

Processes driving urban growth are inherently related to multiple socio-economic factors, making the analysis of urban form and functions a challenging and complicated endeavour.

This book explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh insights to the study of poverty.

This book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the 'ethical turn' in skateboarding today.

The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities.

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

This book provides a comparative analysis of Chinese property law as depicted in the newly enacted Chinese Civil Code.

In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic.