Urban communities books

This book presents the latest thinking on the benefits and dangers of higher density urban living. It offers diverse...  Read More >>

In Making Immigrant Rights Real, Els de Graauw examines how immigrant-serving nonprofits can make impressive policy...  Read More >>

This new edition provides an updated and expanded analysis of the issues that increase the need for urban wildlife...  Read More >>

The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration...  Read More >>

Madlen Kobi analyzes the architectural and socio-political transformation of public places and spaces in rapidly...  Read More >>

When the horrific Newtown murders of twenty elementary school-aged children occurred in Connecticut in 2012, shock...  Read More >>

The Middle East, defined here as extending from Morocco to Iran and Turkey to Sudan, lies at the crossroads of three...  Read More >>

The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration...  Read More >>

The need to hire qualified teachers has been a concern for many decades. Many studies and research has been conducted...  Read More >>

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

Poverty in Canada's inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of...  Read More >>

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition 24 Hour Cities is the very...  Read More >>

The 16 contributors to this volume deploy the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to explore cities: what they are,...  Read More >>

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness work as well as a number of early successes....  Read More >>

This book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between globalization, violence,...  Read More >>

The typical town springs up around a natural resource—a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor—or in proximity...  Read More >>

How did tourism gain a central role in the postwar American Rustbelt city? And how did tourism development reshape...  Read More >>

In Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Fairness, and Justice for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education,...  Read More >>

A multidisciplinary collection which brings together cutting edge research about the cultural politics of space....  Read More >>

The City in the Developing World is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to urbanisation in developing countries....  Read More >>

Cities around the world are facing increasingly diverse populations as a result of migration, both from rural areas...  Read More >>

Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century’s great urban success stories - a place that has...  Read More >>

"The first book to explore the critical problem of provisioning the ""megacity."" A historical study of Manila looks...  Read More >>

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For courses in Urban Sociology A comprehensive overview of classic and contemporary urban sociology. Cities...  Read More >>