Urban communities books

This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated...  Read More >>

This edited book examines why what happens in Detroit matters for other cities around the world. Bridging academic...  Read More >>

This book is concerned with the ways in which undergraduate students at Georgetown University (DC), Wadham College...  Read More >>

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A surprising radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city  Read More >>

Kalyan presents a trans-disciplinary exploration of the manifold possibilities and challenges that confront a ‘globalizing’...  Read More >>

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A raw and inspirational true account of one woman's improbable dream to offer a path out of poverty and crime for...  Read More >>

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Montreal Then and Now takes 70 archive photos from across the city on the banks of the St.Lawrence river and compares...  Read More >>

Examines the histories of four famous church congregations in early Republic New York City to uncover the lived...  Read More >>

Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s...  Read More >>

"It was a downright hot day. Logan looked at a pond full of want-to-be swimmers in the area designated as ""the...  Read More >>

Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with....  Read More >>

In this book, the famous Russian scientist, Sergei Kapitsa, explains complicated theories in an uncomplicated manner...  Read More >>

Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral history...  Read More >>

Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s...  Read More >>

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Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with....  Read More >>

Internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density,...  Read More >>

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member and juvenile...  Read More >>

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member and juvenile...  Read More >>

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member and juvenile...  Read More >>

Levittown became the site of one of urban sociology’s most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans’s The Levittowners....  Read More >>

This book provides a reflection on urban ecocriticism, a subject that has yet to be fully researched and appreciated...  Read More >>