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In the southern German city of Stuttgart lives a pious Muslim population that has merged with the local population to cr......more

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A harrowing look at violence among Argentina s urban poor Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place w......more

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Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world ......more

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An insightful and theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world - its origins, functio......more

Over the next couple of decades, it is estimated that 250 million Chinese citizens will move from rural areas into citie......more

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Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeoi......more

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From its first shock waves in 2008, the Great Recession has been reshaping American cities. Detroit collapsed, and the o......more

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When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crim......more

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In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first c......more

Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeoi......more

In East Asian economies such as China, recent mass rural-urban migration has created a new urban underclass, as have the......more

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A hundred years and more ago, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted fr......more

Planning is central to economic, social and environmental life but its practice is frequently criticised by all who enga......more

Something truly fascinating is afoot in a region of the Upper Midwest commonly known as the Driftless that runs counter ......more

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social sci......more

Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbank......more

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun......more

The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction. In Li......more

In The Tumbleweed Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, a......more

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Globalisation has long historical roots in South Asia, but economic liberalisation has led to uniquely rapid urban growt......more

This book examines how DUI laws, an undeniably good public policy, may have had negative unintended consequences for the......more

In confrontation 9, Dilshad Dayani makes a persuasive case on how culture can fog the idea of meaningful success and the......more

As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experientia......more

In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million v......more

The book investigates the complexity of the Latin American mega cities and the multiple commitments of the apparatus of ......more

Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world’s population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 20......more

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Regulative and supportive mechanisms at policy and planning level have been identified through a comparative analysis of......more

Named for a part of the city where bribes bought police the highest-grade beef, San Francisco s Tenderloin neighborhood ......more

"Opening the Black Box: Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability fills an important knowledge gap by providing guidan......more

What are the suburbs? The popular vision of monotonous streets curving into culs-de-sac and emerald lawns unfurling from......more

In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze spec......more

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Religion and Community in the New Urban America examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregati......more

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed......more

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Philadelphia’s Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant lab......more

This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in......more

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This book reveals and analyzes the ways in which highly contested, deeply divided urban space can generate opportunities......more

Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed ......more

A RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HAS TORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES Forty years in, the tou......more

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Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural c......more

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On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d ole, a park whose completion was hailed intern......more

Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revis......more

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Many Europeans think that town twinning has greatly contributed to integration in Europe after the Second World War. Thi......more

Indian diaspora has had a complex and multifaceted role in catalyzing, justifying and promoting a transformed urban land......more

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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the small politics of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It ......more

In a city driven by fashion and design, visibility and invisibility are powerful forces. Milanese Encounters examines ho......more

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