Urban communities

Translating Montreal follows the trajectories of adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid, F.

Using capital cities in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States as case studies, contributors examine federal policies towards capital cities, with a particular emphasis on how capital cities are funded and governed, and the extent to which the federal government compensates them for their unique role.

Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing.

Canada's last experience with national urban policy-making was in the 1970s.

With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and lifestyle changes, the traditional family - working father, stay-at-home mother, two to three children - is no longer the norm and the need for smaller homes at moderate cost has skyrocketed.

What did it mean to be middle class in late nineteenth-century Ontario?

In Community Besieged Garth Stevenson describes the unusual circumstances that allowed English-speaking Quebecers to live in virtual isolation from their francophone neighbours for almost a century after Confederation.

Bonner analyses historical contributions to the urban-rural debate by Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth, and Robert Redfield, as well as contributions by contemporary theorists, such as Ray Pahl, Anthony Giddens, and Peter Berger.

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.

Martin examines the environment of policing, a profoundly urban enterprise that has been greatly influenced by the pace and nature of urbanization.

Rayside conducted informal interviews with more than 150 Glengarrians and attended numerous meetings of local councils, school boards, planning boards, and conservation authorities.

Doucet and Weaver begin this empirical, analytical, and narrative study with an analysis of the evolution of land development as an enterprise and continue with an examination of house design and construction practices, the development of the apartment building, and an account of class and age as they relate to housing tenure.

Using Jane Jacobs' critique of postwar city-building as a starting point, Fowler shows that recent North American urban development has been characterized by development projects on a massive scale, an indiscriminate use of vast areas of land, and an increasingly evident homogeneity.

The contributors to this volume demonstrate the richness and diversity of the social landscapes and communities in Canadian urban centres, emphasizing changes which occurred in the period from the mid 1960s to the early 1990s.

Speaking Memory evokes the complex language-scapes that form at the crossroads of culture and history in cities.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish republic.

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish republic.

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Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise.

We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders.

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa.

The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities.

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism?

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process?

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries.

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities?

Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police.

In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities?

This book is a fresh and engaging analysis of the city as a central concept in contemporary social thought.

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same.

With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent.

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world.

The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's urban marginalized communities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade.

In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C.

Rapid transformation processes occur in the Majority World, where most of the global population is living (estimated around ?

This volume examines how urban potentiality emerges in performances that reclaim the city, acting as an emancipatory force when dominant patterns of urban behaviour are thrown into crisis.

A fascinating account of the growing Yes in My Backyard urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world.

When Pittsburgh socialite Laura Corey rolled into Reno, Nevada, in 1905 for a six-month stay, her goal was a divorce from the president of U.

This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Courts juvenile justice decisions including Miller v.

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We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy.

An acclaimed history of Harlem's journey from urban crisis to urban renaissanceWith its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today's Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis.

One of the nation's foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970sAs World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city's century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families.

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates.

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates.

A fascinating account of the growing Yes in My Backyard urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world.

An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill-specifically the distinction between the "e;skilled"e; and "e;unskilled"e;-is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human?

An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world.