Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.

A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s.

Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.

Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.

Updated second edition examining how the real estate industry and federal housing policy have facilitated the development of racial residential segregation.

Examines the dynamics of Atlanta’s transportation crisis.

A powerful account of the hazards, challenges, and dangers faced by America's first-responders.

Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences.

Reveals the powerful influence of financial elites on New York City’s mayors.

Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.

Examines the economic activities of self-employed brickmakers and the unpaid family members and others who assist them in Mexico.

Multidisciplinary perspectives on segregation in the United States and other developed countries.

Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs.

Explores the political and economic causes and consequences of homelessness.

A detailed history of a small neighborhood community of Ottoman Istanbul.

Americans with changing lifestyles, nontraditional households, and special needs and interests are increasingly looking for alternatives to the single-family house, and especially for the opportunity ...

This book probes the nature, scope, and methods of 'ilm al- 'umran, the new science of human social organization, as it is developed in Ibn Khaldun's 14th-century masterpiece, the Mugaddimah. It explores ...