Urban category: 4425 books
Global Research of Cities
A Case of Chengdu
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu’s development into a global city. To do so, it adopts both external and internal perspectives: externally, it highlights Chengdu’s agglomeration and...
by Hillel Levine, Lawrence Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions by Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon (128,000 words, 19 illustrations)
Written by a sociologist and a journalist, The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions recounts the death of a Boston community...
Sustainable Future for Human Security
Society, Cities and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development. Three major perspectives are considered: governance and its influence on sustainable development; urban environments and their broader human and environmental impacts; and disaster management. Each of these elements is...
Immigrants in Prairie Cities
Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that...
Down the Up Staircase
Three Generations of a Harlem Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth...
New Slow City
Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find...
Power at the Roots
Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Through direct engagement with gardeners, activists, and residents, Miranda Martinez shows the breadth and diversity of the community gardening movement and how these groups inserted themselves into local politics and development to create change. She demonstrates how real people are effective as...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants...
Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia
Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations.
Represents one of the few studies of neoliberal changes in East Asia, one of the...
Giving Preservation a History
Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In this volume, some of the best figures in the field have come together to write on preservation movements across the country, from New York to Atlanta to Santa Fe and others. Giving Preservation a History also touches on the European roots of the historic preservation movement; on how preservation...
by William G. Grigsby
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
For as long as statistics record, housing conditions in the United States have been improving. Housing that only the rich once enjoyed is commonplace today; by today's standards, most of the population was ill-housed at the turn of the century. Amidst this rise, however, inadequate living accommodations...
The Restless City
A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events and interactions that have formed New York City. Weaving together the shifting currents of economic, political, social, and cultural life, Joanne Reitano...
The Hero's Fight
African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore’s...
Ecuadorians in Madrid
Migrants' Place in Urban History
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador. Through a combination of ethnographic research and cultural analysis, this book addresses the interconnections...