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The inaugural winner of The Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues, this is a provocative exploration of urbanised... Read More >>
Focuses on the migration, settlement, and adaptation of Chinese and other Asian immigrants and their impacts on... Read More >>
A study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in pre-industrial... Read More >>
At times of economic and political crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, urban dwellers display a large degree of creativity... Read More >>
A collection of gardens, which acts as a cross-section of trends, for their use of new materials and construction... Read More >>
Drawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, this book argues that... Read More >>
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Cities play an important role in American culture as sites of commerce, trade, entertainment, and the arts. We can... Read More >>
What makes a good city? In seeking to answer that question, this successor to the 1985 landmark publication, Faith... Read More >>
Though always at the heart of discussions in social theory, the definition and specification of 'the city' remains... Read More >>
Structures of Memory turns to the landscape of contemporary Berlin, particularly places marked by the presence of... Read More >>
Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the... Read More >>
...an extraordinarily rich and detailed study of the social and economic life of unemployed and poor households.... Read More >>
Combines details about specific people with analysis of the trends that have shaped their lives. This book exposes... Read More >>
"""An important contribution to studies of gender and the state in Southeast Asia, this eminently readable book... Read More >>
Results from Census 2000 have confirmed that American cities and metropolitan areas lie at the heart of the nation's... Read More >>
Highlights the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being.... Read More >>
Focusing on a range of locales in India's metropolitan areas and provincial small towns, this work moves beyond... Read More >>
<p>As the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing... Read More >>
