Urban category: 4425 books
A World of Gangs
Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
“Street gangs mirror the inhuman ambitions and greed of society’s trendsetters and deities even as they fight to the death over scraps from the table of the international drug trade. But John Hagedorn, characteristically, also finds hope in the contradictory values of outlaw youth—selflessness,...
UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City
The Aesthetics and Ethics of London's Rap Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Young people in London have contributed to the production of a distinctively British rap culture. This book moves beyond accounts of Hip-Hop’s marginality and shows, with an examination of the production, dissemination and use of rap in London, how this cultural form plays an important role in the...
Health Rights Are Civil Rights
Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women’s movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems...
Flight Path
A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing in her adopted Brooklyn,...
by Henri Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture....
by Mark w. Frankena, David T. Scheffman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning. The conversion of farmland to urban and other uses is discussed, as are the issues raised by the reports of the Ontario Planning Act Review Committee and the Federal/Provincial Task Force on the Supply...
Building Jerusalem
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
From Manchester's deadly cotton works to London's literary salons, a brilliant exploration of how the Victorians created the modern city
Since Charles Dickens first described Coketown in Hard Times, the nineteenth-century city, born of the industrial revolution, has been a byword for deprivation,...
Race and Place
How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Geography matters.
We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial injustices persist. Why? Because geographic structures and systems create barriers to reconciliation and prevent the flourishing of our communities.
Race and Place reveals the profound ways in which these geographic...
Smart Urbanism
Utopian vision or false dawn?
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted...
Preventing the Next Mortgage Crisis
The Meltdown, the Federal Response, and the Future of Housing in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The great U.S. mortgage crisis was a transformative event that will reverberate for decades across families, neighborhoods, and cities. After years of research on various aspects of the crisis, Dan Immergluck examines what went wrong, identifying the factors that created the fragile housing finance...
From Neighborhoods to Nations
The Economics of Social Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities, regions, and nations--determining where households live, how children learn, and what cities and firms produce. From Neighborhoods to Nations synthesizes the recent economics of...
Invisible City
Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
A legendary figure in the realms of public policy and academia, John Gilderbloom is one of the foremost urban-planning researchers of our time, producing groundbreaking studies on housing markets, design, location, regulation, financing, and community building. Now, in Invisible City, he turns his...
Urban Policy Reconsidered
Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Robert A. Beauregard
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that...