Urban category: 4425 books
Who Can Stop the Drums?
Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements...
Ghetto
The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A New York Times Notable Book of 2016
W****inner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto—a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.
In this...
by Parthiban Muniandy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
For more than three decades Malaysia’s economic growth has been driven in part by the skills and sweat of large numbers of migrant workers. The country has become the temporary home for more than two million documented migrants. Many more than that are undocumented, living precarious lives on the...
Reconstructing Beirut
Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of the war was an unstable situation Sawalha considers...
Zoo Renewal
White Flight and the Animal Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human...
by Peter A. Jackson, Susan J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The argument emphasises the essentially spatial structure...
Triumph of Order
Democracy and Public Space in New York and London
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
In an effort to create a secure urban environment in which residents can work, live, and prosper with minimal disruption, New York and London established a network of laws, policing, and municipal government in the nineteenth century aimed at building the confidence of the citizenry and creating stability...
The Student City
Strategic Planning for Student Communities in EU Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow. They are seen as an 'invisible population' with little say in local policy and decision-making. Co-operation between educational institutions...
Barrio Dreams
Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2004
Arlene Dávila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New York, the global center of culture and consumption, where Latinos are now the biggest minority group. Analyzing the simultaneous gentrification and Latinization...
Streetwise
Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
In a powerful, revealing portrait of city life, Anderson explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground—prime real estate in a racially changing neighborhood—but for shared moral community. Blacks and...
Toxic Schools
High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society—and one of the most hotly...
Transforming Asian Cities
Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical...
The Paradox of Urban Space
Inequality and Transformation in Marginalized Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening differences between wealth and poverty, and the economic crisis, this book issues a timely call for just, sustainable development.
What a City Is For
Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.
Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes,...