Urban communities books

In The City in Time, Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region...  Read More >>

This book traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town. By looking...  Read More >>

Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular...  Read More >>

Punishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It demonstrates that...  Read More >>

Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social...  Read More >>

A literary debut subverting classic sci-fi tropes set in gentrified Chicago, Silicon Valley, and across the vastness...  Read More >>

School Is a Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling...  Read More >>

Punishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It demonstrates that...  Read More >>

Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social...  Read More >>

Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies. How Spaces Become Places...  Read More >>

Drawing from a cross-national perspective and a range of comparative vantage points, Poverty and Austerity amid...  Read More >>

"David Leavitt returns with his signature ""coolly elegant prose"" (O, The Oprah Magazine) to deliver a comedy of...  Read More >>

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The `refugee crisis' and the recent rise of anti-immigration parties across Europe has prompted widespread debates...  Read More >>

LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice in this new thriller from No. 1 bestselling...  Read More >>

For mayors and city directors: how can I prepare my city for this goal? Can I find the cities that best suit my...  Read More >>

This original social-science text approaches marathon running as an everyday practice and a designed event, to draw...  Read More >>

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This book navigates the design process of new housing, like additional dwelling units, and explores ideas that can...  Read More >>

This book explores resilience in urban neighborhoods affected by chronic conflict and violence, developing a new...  Read More >>

This book provides a timely and much-needed paradigm shift in our understanding of Chinatown, through an in-depth...  Read More >>

A study of Ghana’s largest illegal slum, revealing how such communities are able to govern themselves in the absence...  Read More >>

Six Stories About Motoring Nowhere is a collection of short stories by indie musician and writer, Ancient Champion....  Read More >>

The book explores and discusses some of the changes, challenges and opportunities confronting local governance in...  Read More >>

This original social-science text approaches marathon running as an everyday practice and a designed event, to draw...  Read More >>