Urban communities books

While journalists document the decline of small-town America and scholars describe the ascent of such global cities...  Read More >>

This collection of essays, written by urban planners, scholars, medical practitioners, and activists, examines the...  Read More >>

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Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, but that transformation has...  Read More >>

Homeless explores the efforts of private and public institutions to solve the problem of homelessness by tracing...  Read More >>

The majority of the world’s population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs. City...  Read More >>

Received the Environmental Design Research Association's 2014 Place Book Award Shortlisted for the UDG Francis...  Read More >>

One woman's journey inside New York City's grittiest--and most important--uniformed workforce. New York City produces...  Read More >>

Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security...  Read More >>

This book illuminates the spread of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions...  Read More >>

Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security...  Read More >>

In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally...  Read More >>

How community influences contribute to civic and political engagement in a city undergoing rapid change  Read More >>

Focusing on the period from 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the Mexico city into what it is, this...  Read More >>

How community influences contribute to civic and political engagement in a city undergoing rapid change  Read More >>

The majority of the world’s population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs. City...  Read More >>

Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through...  Read More >>

This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland...  Read More >>

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Kinesthetic City uses choreography as subject and method to explore how movement through particular spaces at precise...  Read More >>

This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical...  Read More >>

Kinesthetic City uses choreography as subject and method to explore how movement through particular spaces at precise...  Read More >>

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Transcultural Cities collects case studies of intercultural exchange and the urban transformations that have accompanied...  Read More >>

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