Urban communities

Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of 'creativity'.

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities.

Metis Ukrainian writer Conor Kerr's sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time.

Is it legitimate to prohibit political activities in a shopping centre, or the wearing of the full Islamic veil in a public space?

This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology.

Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance.

This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms.

This approachable guide meets health and social sciences scholars at their level--either as a reference text or as an enchanting but practical read--and walks them through each stage of their academic publishing journey.

The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning.

This book identifies the barriers between social work intervention in education and government-funded programs that impact African American students.

Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated.

Urban activism can manifest in many guises, from community gardening to mass naked bike rides.

In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents.

The effort to win federal protection for dance in the United States was a racialized and gendered contest.

A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive.

The design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities.

This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London.

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

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of recently developed scalable algorithms for solving multibody contact problems of linear elasticity.

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.

This one-stop resource situates racism within America's structural foundations and institutions to consider how racial discrimination and segregation have changed the trajectory of the USA from its colonial beginnings to the present day.

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer.

This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the 'football gatherings' that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century.

This book examines the forced displacement of public housing residents in Sydney's Millers Point and The Rocks communities.

How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the United States and European societies, making it more important than ever to understand race and racism.

Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities.

Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the surrounding area of Lower Manhattan from the terrorist attack of 9/11/2001 there were many heroic and extensive efforts to rebuild this iconic urban area in New York City.

Provides a reader based approach to study of genre fiction specifically focused on Aboriginal Australian chick lit author Anita Heiss.

This book details the transformation processes that impinge on constitutionally ordained governance by drawing on the new theoretical approaches in the urban sciences.

PROSE Award Finalist 2019Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly ExcellenceAs a follow up to his widely acclaimed Sustainable Urbanism, this new book from author Douglas Farr embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential challenge, one with impossibly short deadlines.

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This book examines the theoretical, historical, and practical dimensions of how a city operates internationally.

The discipline of law and economics has earned a reputation for developing plausible and empirically testable theories on the social functions and the impact of legal institutions.

Cities are many things.

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

This book showcases new empirical findings on the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of land management interventions and addresses two crucial aspects: how and under which conditions such interventions are responsible, and how such interventions can be supported by smart technologies.

On December 10, 1953, tragedy was visited on a family when Nathaniel Allen was murdered on the Sampit River by his white employer, who lured him into the meeting under the false promise of reconciliation.

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.

Gecekondu settlements-or shanty towns-in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many of which have migrated from the villages of Central Anatolia.

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies.

This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream.

Positive relations between Muslims and non-Muslims are important for the future, in Britain and beyond.

This book discusses the use of communication campaigns to promote road safety, arguing that they need to elicit public discourse on issues pertaining to culture, equity, gender, workplace norms, environmental issues, and social solidarity.

This book reconsiders the fundamental principles of zoning and city planning over the course of the past one-hundred years, and the lessons that can be learned for the future of cities.

This book explores the hopeful possibility that emerging geographies of postsecularity are able to contribute significantly to the understanding of how common life may be shared, and how caring for the common goods of social justice, well-being, equality, solidarity and respect for difference may be imagined and practiced.

This pioneering collection brings together an international group of scholars to explore the Vietnamese middle class.