Urban communities

Urban centres are bastions of inequalities, where poverty, marginalization, segregation and health insecurity are magnified.

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

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans.

Together we can change the conversation--and change the world.

Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present.

With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation.

The mushrooming of illegal housing on the periphery of cities is one of the main consequences of rapid urbanisation associated with social and environmental problems in the developing countries.

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses.

Despite the overwhelming evidence against them, many people still believe they can overcome the economic and racial constraints placed upon them at birth.

Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays.

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy solutions to promote sustainability.

This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global.

This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to explore the interconnections between social networks based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour in urban environments.

The Jews have been an urban people par excellence, and their influence on the urban landscape is unmistakable.

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.

For more than two hundred years hotels have played a significant role in American history.

Literature and educational books about Native Americans frequently present stereotypical images or depict the people as they existed hundreds of years ago.

Places of Tenderness and Heat is a ground-level exploration of queer St.

This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for policy and intervention.

Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg.

Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines.

This book is about containment, life, work, and restart cities affected by COVID 19, using selected empirical case studies.

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

Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "e;Ground Zero Mosque,"e; this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims.

This book fills an existing academic literature gap by providing a sound and synthetic analysis on the process of European Territorial Cooperation over the last 30 years.

Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages.

This book discusses the challenges faced by the homo resaliens and his need for a transition to a more sustainable social, economic, and environmental system.

This book provides an easy-to-follow introduction to the principal methods of property valuation in Australia within the context of International Valuation Standards, so bridging the gap between traditional property valuation methods and the modern era of global valuation governance.

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Global cities with a largely cosmopolitan environment, such as Auckland, Berlin, Dubai, London, New York, Shanghai or Singapore, are successfully developing and attracting entrepreneurs from all over the world.

The housing and human settlement sector is fast changing, and technology is making it more complex than ever before.

Morantz shows that with the imposition of administration from the south the Crees had to confront a new set of foreigners whose ideas and plans were very different from those of the fur traders.

This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective disaster mitigation and the alleviation of suffering in times of crisis.

There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives.

Aboriginal policy and claims negotiation in Canada is seen to be a murky and perplexing world that has become an important public issue and has significant policy implications for government spending.

Leadership development is critical to organizational competitive advantage.

The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines explores new perspectives made possible by the evidence drawn from visual culture.

This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis.

Re-Situating Identities signals a crucial move away from the extremes of statistical reductionism and textual preoccupation which have marked race and ethnic studies.

This volume examines how violence and resilience is experienced in urban spaces, and explores the history of a variety of people told from the perspective of the margins.

The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who founded a “cradle land” in the plains of Turkana.

This book traces the feminine soul of Afrobeat from tumultuous colonial (her)stories through to the vibrant heterotopias of the urban spaces and times of Black British youths of African racial heritage.

During the First World War, nearly half a million immigrant draftees from forty-six different nations served in the U.

Sport is a geographic phenomenon.

This collection brings the broad discussion about digital humanities into focus through Shakespeare in research, teaching, publishing and performance.

The Dine, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory.

This Handbook simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today, and gives the reader a major reference to the best of Cairo scholarship.

Have you ever wondered about those rocks under your feet?

Winner: Joseph Brant Award (2014), Ontario Historical Society Winner: Clio Prize (Ontario) (2014), Canadian Historical Association Winner: The James S.