Urban communities books

This book translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuze’s most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new,...  Read More >>

China’s extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the...  Read More >>

This book examines the complex forms and processes underlying China’s recent migration and urbanization: the circulatory...  Read More >>

This report examines the food security status of Zimbabwean migrant households in the poorer areas of two major...  Read More >>

Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party....  Read More >>

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Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s...  Read More >>

This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through...  Read More >>

Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China  Read More >>

This volume contains essays that examine contemporary urban and regional planning and development in China.  Read More >>

In the face of increasingly serious resource and environmental challenges, the world has already accepted low-carbon...  Read More >>

Die Beitragsautoren dieses Bandes thematisieren das Quartier in seiner zunehmend wichtigen Funktion für die Gesundheit...  Read More >>

Shih-cheng Lien untersucht die Bedeutung der gestiegenen Frauenerwerbstätigkeit für die Veränderungen von Wohnstandort...  Read More >>

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field...  Read More >>

Investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous...  Read More >>

In The Past and Future City, Stephanie Meeks, the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, describes...  Read More >>

In today’s global knowledge economy, competition for the best and brightest workers has intensified. Highly skilled...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the distribution of the urban population in the United States. It attempts to summarize some...  Read More >>

This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations...  Read More >>

Investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous...  Read More >>

Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans-released prisoners, people...  Read More >>

Opening up a new conceptual and operational toolbox for policy makers, practitioners and scholars, the theory of...  Read More >>

Before the interstates, Main Street America was the small town’s commercial spine and served as the linchpin for...  Read More >>

This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations...  Read More >>

What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you’re tired...  Read More >>