Urban category: 4425 books
Police in the Hallways
Discipline in an Urban High School
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
As zero-tolerance discipline policies have been instituted at high schools across the country, police officers are employed with increasing frequency to enforce behavior codes and maintain order, primarily at poorly performing, racially segregated urban schools. Actions that may once have sent students...
The Long Shadow
Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
A volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential “inner city”—gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area...
Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie
Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism,...
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1996
This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience.
Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life—how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they...
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change
New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars to highlight the detrimental impact of zero...
Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space
Experimental Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space, while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form.
Toronto
Transformations in a City and Its Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Extending a hundred miles across south-central Ontario, Toronto is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North America, with the highest population density and the busiest expressway. At its core old Toronto consists of walkable neighborhoods and a financial district deeply connected to the global...
The Fabric of Space
Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.
Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global...
by Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl...
Boundaries of the City
The Architecture of Western Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through...
Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities
The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon...
Colonial Jerusalem
The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is often
suggested,...
Changing Space, Changing City
Johannesburg after apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city’s...
by Ronald H. Bayor
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged "a city too busy to hate." But Ronald Bayor argues that the city continues to bear the indelible mark of racial bias. Offering the first comprehensive history of Atlanta...