Urban communities

The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling.

In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns.

Seeking Urban Transformation.

Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global south city.

Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global south city.

Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways.

Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways.

HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD NOMINEEFrom basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.

HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD NOMINEEFrom basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.

The story of how Toronto became a music mecca.

The story of how Toronto became a music mecca.

Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception -- in part because of zoning that protects "e;stable"e; residential neighborhoods with high property values.

Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception -- in part because of zoning that protects "e;stable"e; residential neighborhoods with high property values.

Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water.

More trees.

Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the intense diversity of the city itself, andAny Other Wayis an eclectic history of how these groups have transformed Toronto since the 1960s.

From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others landed in The Ward in the centre of downtown.

What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class?

Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford.

Stroll celebrates Toronto's details at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario.

City Hall proclaimed 2006 the Year of Creativity.

An archaeological dig uncovers the secret history of Toronto's long-forgotten first immigrant neighbourhood.

An archaeological dig uncovers the secret history of Toronto's long-forgotten first immigrant neighbourhood.

Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades.

The way we plan and build cities in Australia needs to change.

Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis.

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco.

Liu explores the experiences of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China, investigating how their cultural heritage influences their search for identity and a sense of belonging.

This book provides unique perspectives into newly changed political and socioeconomic urban landscapes due to COVID-19 in diverse cities and aims to provide ways to improve the resilience of cities using a global perspective, especially in a post-pandemic era.

Urban planning practice in Sub-Saharan Africa increasingly encounters complexities due to the confluence of urbanisation, climate change, and their interconnected drivers and consequences.

Completely updated guide to the laws governing homeowners associations in Florida.

Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster.

What is it like growing up Black and gay in the inner city?

The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby.

In The Pandemic Effect, 90 leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and citiesand propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics, viruses, and contagious diseases on every scale, from surfaces to society.

This book offers a comparative study of state strategies in relation to urban redevelopment projects associated with sports mega-events in Brazil, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment.

As children, Minerva and her sister dreamed of opening a home where people could come and stay to find direction and catch their breath from the race of life.

Careless People is a story of family and friends living in Corona del Mar, a small beach community in Southern California.

Once you find your muse, never let them go.

Is there such a thing as too much inspiration?

It's night time, and a young man sits writing at a table.

In the early nineties, Scarlet, a painter and high fashion model, finds herself working in some of the world's most famous fashion capitals.

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.

2020 was a year unlike any other in U.

Growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina, Q worked his way up in the ranks to become the most notorious drug dealer North Carolina has ever seen.

Candy was still up to her old tricks.

To the best of my knowledge understandably when I first saw the New Yorkers, I was in a state of euphoria concerning the awesome lifestyles of the great people on earth.

School Is a Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling explored minority and low-SES inner-city high school students' perception and sense-making of school, schooling, learning, academic behaviors, and academic achievement through an integrated theory of human development, learning, and achievement.