Urban communities Books

An analysis of the municipal administration of Corato, Italy, by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. This work provides a detailed look at the workings of local government in the specific context of Corato, offering insights into its historical development and...

L'Italie Économique En 1867, Avec Un Aperçu Des Industries Italiennes À L'exposition Universelle De Paris... provides a detailed snapshot of Italy's economic landscape in 1867. Written by Pietro Maestri and the Direzione generale della...

"Los Guerrilleros Del Valle De México..." narra la historia de los movimientos guerrilleros en el Valle de México. Escrito por Manuel Fernandez de Cañedo, el libro examina las causas, el desarrollo y las consecuencias de estos movimientos...

Histoire De La Ville De St-Amans... plonge le lecteur dans le passé riche et complexe de la ville de Saint-Amans, située dans la région d'Occitanie en France. Écrit par Jean Calvet, cet ouvrage offre un regard...

"Telling Tales on Tokyo" offers a fascinating glimpse into life in Tokyo around the turn of the 20th century. Written from the perspective of the Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions, the book provides insights into the social conditions,...

"Notes on Paris" offers a captivating glimpse into Parisian life during the late 19th century, as observed through the keen eyes of Hippolyte Taine. More than just a travelogue, this work delves into the social fabric, customs, and daily routines of...

"Street Cries of an Old Southern City" by Harriette Kershaw Leiding offers a fascinating glimpse into the vibrant street life of early 20th-century Charleston, South Carolina. Leiding meticulously documents the calls and cries of the city's vendors,...

Through the cases of Damascus and Aleppo and adopting a postcolonial perspective, this book explores how urbicide (the destruction and violent recomposition of urban space) is central to the Syrian regime's wartime rearticulation of state-society...

In exploring artificial intelligence (AI) in urban life, this book brings together and extends thinking on how human-AI interactions are continuously evolving. Through such interactions, people are aided on the one hand, while becoming more aware of...

Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring...

This volume offers a comprehensive insight on sustainable development of local territories. It recommends the planning of local interventions through the integration of sustainable development with resilience of local systems.

This book examines the challenges of urbanization in the global south and the linkages between urbanization, economic development and urban poverty from the perspectives of the cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development.Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as...

This collection is made up of contributions from scholars producing empirical work on some of the key areas upon which Geoff Pearson established his reputation.

This is a facsimile reprint of "Williamson's Directory for the City of Edinburgh, Canongate, Leith, and Suburbs," originally published in 1773. This first edition directory provides a unique snapshot of Edinburgh during a period of significant growth and...

Tableau de Paris, by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, offers a detailed and vivid portrait of Parisian life in the late 18th century. This volume continues Mercier's exploration of the city, delving into its customs, institutions, and the daily lives of...

Gênes, written by Jean de Foville, offers a captivating glimpse into the city of Genoa at the beginning of the 20th century. This historical account explores the rich tapestry of Genoese life, from its bustling port and maritime traditions to its...

"The Civic Theatre in Relation to the Redemption of Leisure; a Book of Suggestions" by Percy Mackaye explores the potential of civic theater to enrich community life and elevate leisure activities. Published in 1912, this work delves into the role of...

"Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States" (1935) by Edith Elmer Wood provides a comprehensive overview of the conditions, causes, and proposed solutions to urban decay in the early 20th century. Wood examines the social and economic factors...

Madrid Por Dentro Y Por Fuera: Guia De Forasteros Incautos, escrito por Eusebio Blasco y publicado originalmente en 1873, ofrece una mirada fascinante a la vida y costumbres de Madrid en el siglo XIX. Más que una simple guía turística, este...

La Vida Santiaguina, written by Vicente Grez and published in 1879, offers a fascinating glimpse into the social life and customs of Santiago, Chile, during the late 19th century. Through a series of insightful essays, Grez captures the essence of the...

In this helpful new book, renowned educator Larry Strauss provides an honest examination of the challenges we face as high school teachers, such as the minds and temperaments of teenagers, empathy that can meet the most daunting teaching conditions, the...

London continues to fascinate a vast audience across the world, and an extensive, diverse literature now exists describing and analyzing this metropolis. The central question - what is London? - has produced many answers but none of them, the author...

Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new...

Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families...

Este libro explora la dinámica de los movimientos sociales garífunas y su migración transnacional entre Honduras y la ciudad de Nueva York.

The searches by European Union major states for 'joined up' approaches to inner city regeneration are examined thematically through a focus on policy evolution since the mid-1970s. Key issues addressed include the physical, social, employment, and urban...

This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity.

Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport, bringing together research in geography, sport studies...

In this age of large cities, mass culture, and ever more massive events, people must struggle against an overwhelming crowd of their own creations to maintain human integrity

You'd think "strategic planning" would be obvious. It has long been a common practice in the corporate world. It has, however, only recently been applied to the public sector. Local governments find such planning increasingly useful as they strive to...

There are many types and forms of regional government agencies. These include regional planning commissions, council of governments, regional advisory committees, regional allocation agencies, and special purpose regional agencies. Even so innovative...

This work describes the operations of a typical municipal government and examines the many productivity trends that are occurring in city halls across America. Much of the focus is on the increasing need for planning in city government to ensure that...

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various forms of government below the state level now in use in the United States of America. It sorts through the traditional commission, mayor-council, strong mayor, and council-manager models...

From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor...

Towns and communities across America once revolved around their downtowns. Here people shopped, worked, relaxed, and worshipped. Changing needs and developments, however, resulted in their abandonment. Over the past decade, citizens have begun to seek...

The steep rise in neighborhood associations in post-Katrina New Orleans is commonly presented in starkly positive or negative terms - either romanticized narratives of community influence or dismissals of false consciousness and powerlessness to elite...

The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra "remix," R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other "urban" sample-oriented electronic music...

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...

This ethnographic exploration of contemporary spaces of homelessness takes an expanded view of homeless space, threading together experiences of organizational spaces, routes taken through the city and the occupation of public space. Through...

Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professionals in the workplace, community, and local politics. Brown shows how overlapping...

This book analyzes in detail the main social, economic and special transformation of the city of São Paulo. In the last 30 years, São Paulo has become a more heterogeneous and less unequal city. Contrary to some expectations, the recent economic...

Bordered Cities and Divided Societies is a provocative, moving, and poetic encounter with the hearts and minds of individuals living in nine cities of conflict, violence, and healing-Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Barcelona,...

This book investigates the sociohistorical making of place and people in Copenhagen from around 1900 to the present day. Drawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of social space and symbolic power, and from Loïc Wacquant's hypothesis of...

Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and out-of-synch flood events occur, wary cities like Winnipeg continue to depend on...