Urban communities

Approached as a wellspring of cultural authenticity and historical exceptionality, New Orleans appears in opposition to a nation perpetually driven by progress.

In Makers of Democracy A.

Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor.

From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill.

Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement.

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

HBO's critically acclaimed drama The Wire has seen increasing use as course material in college classrooms since the 2008 series finale.

Generations ago, immigrants came to the U.

Before the Civil War, Coney Island boasted a beach, a dozen small hotels with ramshackle bathhouses, some chowder stands and a few saloons.

This handbook of urban transportation planning presents case studies detailing 40 best practices from 33 states in the U.

This volume is based on an international literature search of the best urban planning practices being used in dozens of cities around the world.

Local officials are making investment decisions to enhance the quality of life in their communities and to improve economic development conditions.

This is a timely work on a very dynamic field.

Urban Chinatowns are dynamic, contested spaces that have persevered amid changes in the American cityscape.

A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South.

This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics.

This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics.

Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.

Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.

This book analyzes Istanbul's bus rapid transit, the metrobus, as an encountering space to unfold the perception and practice of togetherness.

With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high.

Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies.

The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance.

Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies.

The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance.

"e;Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies.

"e;Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies.

"e;An invaluable text for all those interested in cities and economic change.

"e;An invaluable text for all those interested in cities and economic change.

This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing neoliberal restructuring, and grapples with profound questions and challenging policy considerations about diversity, equity, and justice.

This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing neoliberal restructuring, and grapples with profound questions and challenging policy considerations about diversity, equity, and justice.

This book teaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city.

This book teaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city.

What is Urban Theory?

What is Urban Theory?

"e;If only more new media commentators had this level of historical-critical reference, engaging, good stories, and a degree of wonder at what media and windows bring to the city, to life.

This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics.

'The world's best crime writer' Metro'The best of what crime fiction can do' Michael Connelly'Fearsomely authentic and moving' Daily Mail'Tells the unvarnished truth about what it is to be a cop' James PattersonA 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalistThe acclaimed author of Night Dogs and Sympathy for the Devil returns with a blistering new novel - his first in over 20 years.

'A lyrical meditation on landscapes and cities, vivid reportage and a memoir.

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.

Cheat your way to weight loss with this brilliant book.

From Uruk to New York, how urban life shaped civilisation.

This early work by George Sturt was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York.

A unique, anyone-can-do-it HIIT plus bodyweight workout plan that guarantees you'll go from zero to hero in just one month'Great for those returning to exercise, The Accumulator is a 30-day progressive workout that gets tougher as you get fitter.

'Great for those returning to exercise, The Accumulator is a 30-day progressive workout that gets tougher as you get fitter.

The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why.

On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated.

On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated.

The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments.