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From award-winning journalist Jessica Barrett, an honest and urgent look at our housing crisis and lessons from around the world that will make better homes for all Canadians. After living in Vancou……続きを見る

This bookcompiles the proceedings of the International Symposium«Urban Dynamics: Global Perspectives for Socio-Cultural Urban Management», which took place in Paris in March 2016. Professors and (po……続きを見る

This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open……続きを見る

WINNER, COLLEGE THEOLOGY SOCIETY 2024 BEST BOOK AWARD What does it mean to be a community of difference? St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Eglesto……続きを見る

Thierry Boissière étudie le monde social des jardins urbains de l'Oronte, dont il nous restitue les systèmes techniques, la structure et l'organisation socioprofessionnelles, les liens étroits avec ……続きを見る

ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing**……続きを見る

La personnalité se manifeste par la conscience; mais la conscience ne suffit pas pour constituer la personnalité. Nous traitons les animaux comme des choses et cependant il paraît impossible de leur……続きを見る

Bio et Nia Kossi sont le reflet d’une jeunesse africaine prise au piège entre des promesses politiques séductrices et la réalité. L’ère équivoque : manipulation, jeunesse sacrifiée et révolution en ……続きを見る

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in……続きを見る

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starti……続きを見る

This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales. With case studies from around the globe, Radical Food Geogra……続きを見る

Barrio San Siro: Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Milan’s largest public housing neighborhoods. It is a……続きを見る

Around the same time that Richard J. Daley governed Chicago, greasing the wheels of his notorious political machine during a tenure that lasted from 1955 to his death in 1976, Anthony “Dutch” Hamann……続きを見る

The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contr……続きを見る

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure ordersーand depends onーmultiple urban temporalities. This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time throu……続きを見る

Cities are nothing without the streetsーthe arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggl……続きを見る

“[A] compelling ethnographic account of middle class Blacks in New York City. . . . A major contribution to race, consumption, class, and urban studies.” ーJuliet Schor, author of After the Gig In t……続きを見る

How the drug war transformed American political culture Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need reh……続きを見る

The second edition of this introductory GIS textbook is thoroughly rewritten and updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with technologies that address relevant issues across severa……続きを見る

Con un acento en el arte, esta publicación recoge las experiencias participativas exploradas en Mirada de Barrio, un proyecto de investigación-acción iniciado por el área de Programas Públicos del M……続きを見る

Faced with changing economic circumstances and a reorientation of trade toward Europe and Asia, will Eurasia’s cities be able to adjust? Will some cities be granted the flexible regulations and supp……続きを見る

Winner, 2023 SAA Book Award - Popular, Society for American Archaeology Honorable Mention, 2024 Felicia A. Holton Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America Bits and pieces of the lives led lon……続きを見る

India, like other Asian countries, is urbanizing quite rapidly. And, both persisting and emerging urban problems are acquiring unprecedented form and dimensions. The available academic works are gen……続きを見る

How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary world Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City foc……続きを見る

COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants. Yet its impact is very visible, perhaps most so in urban public spaces and spaces of mobility. This internation……続きを見る

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and bec……続きを見る

How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to communities? Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America, China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book explores the……続きを見る

«Se il mare, alzandosi di pochi metri, ricoprisse quel golfo di terra che è la valla padana, l’Italia sarebbe una sola e grande montagna», scriveva Meuccio Ruini nel 1919. In Italia, accanto ai prob……続きを見る

Quando si parla di Roma – come esempio per antonomasia di una realtà urbana complessa e stratificata, sintesi del difficile cammino delle metropoli in Europa e nel mondo – spesso si cade nella trapp……続きを見る

This book highlights the challenges and opportunities of (re)constructing a sustainable rural community on the outskirts of the urban community. Based on knowledge and experience accumulated through……続きを見る