Urban communities

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South.

An overview of our current understanding of how people influence, and are influenced by, the ''green'' component of urban environments.

Set against the background of a 'general crisis' that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural.

Corruption is a chronic public concern affecting America's cities.

How evangelical businessmen in the 1930s and 1940s joined their religious and business lives.

This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience.

Originally published in 1988.

An accessible introduction to the unifying principles of ecology through the exploration of urban ecosystems.

This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches.

Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in the social fabric of the city to being a part of more impersonal and fragmented urban environments.

Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology.

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises.

Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn's Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, Norman Street is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-1978.

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the quality of life of older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds living in Australia.

Originally published in 1982, this is a companion volume to State Housing in Britain.

With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities.

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In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region's most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia's major cities.

This book examines the challenges of urbanization in the global south and the linkages between urbanization, economic development and urban poverty from the perspectives of cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The urban condition is today being radically transformed.

This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain.

The town of Arvida provides a field on which we can observe in microcosm the birth of an industrial town and the development of the population's identity as a community.

As the former capital of two great empires-Eastern Roman and Ottoman-Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism.

This book explores how ''learning identities'' are forged through complex interplays between young people and their communities.

Since the 1970s, the field of political geography has undergone a significant transformation, where new methodologies have been implemented to investigate the exercise of the power of the state within the urban environment.

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The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011).

Most African cities are human settlements that lack the systems needed for effective land use planning.

Urban Resettlements in the Global South provides new perspectives on resettlement through an urban studies lens.

This book examines the motives and outcomes of competitively positioned mixed-use megaprojects on government-owned land.

This book investigates why networks, some with joined-up governance remits, appeared ineffective in handling neighbourhood unemployment even in periods when the national unemployment levels dropped.

This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal.

A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.

This book is about the intimacy and shared changes of life in domestic nature cultivation in Beijing.

This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence.

Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph's Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design.

This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human-made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye.

Winner of the 2023 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, awarded by the Urban Communication FoundationBased on the author's scholar-activist interventions to promote social justice in cities, this book highlights the role engaged communication scholarship can play in fostering a more equitable future.

This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies.

As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems.

Originally published in 1962, this book traces the main influences behind modern design in domestic architecture.

Today, cities are being intensively reshaped by unexpected dynamics.