Urban communities books

"This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance...  Read More >>

Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new...  Read More >>

New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasinglycommonin outer city...  Read More >>

New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasinglycommonin outer city...  Read More >>

A study of family life in the East End of London in the 1950s, based on extensive interviews and case studies, which...  Read More >>

We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention...  Read More >>

The focus in the field of sustainable building has been on building design. However, existing residential buildings...  Read More >>

<p>The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture...  Read More >>

Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, this unique book looks at how places change, the role...  Read More >>

Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, this unique book looks at how places change, the role...  Read More >>

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

<p>Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political...  Read More >>

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different...  Read More >>

How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material...  Read More >>

There has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress...  Read More >>

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different...  Read More >>

This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities...  Read More >>

How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material...  Read More >>

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese...  Read More >>

"Mariano Jose de Larra (1809-1837) was the most critical literary voice of the first third of the Spanish nineteenth...  Read More >>

In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century...  Read More >>

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This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese...  Read More >>

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Based on a unique longitudinal study, this timely book examines the initiatives introduced to help families and...  Read More >>