Urban communities books

Meg Mackworth's hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals...  Read More >>

Meg Mackworth's hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals...  Read More >>

Meg Mackworth's hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals...  Read More >>

This book looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and...  Read More >>

The aim of this book is to investigate contemporary processes of metropolitan change and approaches to planning...  Read More >>

Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses the transformative possibilities and...  Read More >>

Key features include: • clear and compact style• a unique survey of contemporary developments in the field• provides...  Read More >>

Careless People is a cautionary tale of misplaced trust and priorities. It is a story of characters longing for...  Read More >>

Careless People is a cautionary tale of misplaced trust and priorities. It is a story of characters longing for...  Read More >>

Tyler Denmead critically examines his role as the founder of New Urban Arts—a nonprofit arts program for young people...  Read More >>

Ann Grodzins Gold weaves together an integrated series of ethnographic sketches depicting the distinctive nature...  Read More >>

This book explores the genesis, development and collapse of London’s controversial post-war plans for urban motorways,...  Read More >>

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it’s easy to bemoan the diminished...  Read More >>

Tyler Denmead critically examines his role as the founder of New Urban Arts—a nonprofit arts program for young people...  Read More >>

The book tackles questions related to the future of architecture and urbanism, lessons learned from global case...  Read More >>

Combining extensive archival research with local fieldwork in the port of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, this first full history...  Read More >>

San Francisco is a city of contradictions. Socially liberal, but with some of America’s worst income inequality....  Read More >>

Uma nova perspectiva para o problema de uso e abuso de crack e outras drogas. A Internacao Involuntaria pode ser...  Read More >>

“We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed...  Read More >>

Eight illustrated case studies, four post-war and four contemporary, show how these public spaces came about, why...  Read More >>

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The book tackles questions related to the future of architecture and urbanism, lessons learned from global case...  Read More >>

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities examines...  Read More >>

“We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed...  Read More >>

The history of Ascension parish is a microcosm of the history of the Catholic Church in New York City because it...  Read More >>