Urban Studies

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Barcelona, City of Comics

Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.

Seeing Symphonically

Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.

Walkable Cities

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

Coming Together

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.

Welcome to Fear City

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

The Caribbeanization of Black Politics

Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.

After Katrina

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Beauty in the City

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

New York Art Deco

The first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City’s Art Deco treasures.

Urban Citizenship and American Democracy

Examines city politics and policy, federalism, and democracy in the United States.

City in Common

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution

Examines how the Supreme Court has banished free expression from shopping malls and other public spaces.

Government in the Twilight Zone

Illuminates how local board systems operate and the motivations and experiences of their members.

Jamestown, New York

A comprehensive guide to the architectural history of Jamestown, New York.

Enough Blame to Go Around

Veteran labor journalist Richard Steier explores the tensions between New York City's public employee unions, their critics, and city and state politicians.

Cuban Intersections of Literary and Urban Spaces

Edited by Carlos Riobó
Introduction by Carlos Riobó
Subjects: Sociology

A collection of essays on theories of space in relation to Havana.

The Creation of a Federal Partnership

New perspective on state-level housing policy, how its role has grown in relation to the federal role.

Critical Urban Studies

Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field

Imagining Black Womanhood

Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.

Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital

Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.

Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools through Professional Development Schools

Provides insights into university partnerships with urban schools.

Paradigm City

Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city. ”

Saving Troy

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

City of Rhetoric

Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.

Global Neighborhoods

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

Main Street to Mainframes

Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.

Sprawl and Politics

An account of the origin, enactment, and implementation of Maryland’s Smart Growth land use program begun in 1966.

Race and Police Brutality

Disputes standard explanations of police brutality against minority citizens to offer new insights and suggestions on dealing with this problem.

Kitchen Capitalism

The first in-depth examination of self-employment from the perspectives of low-income entrepreneurs.

Philosophy and the City

Edited by Sharon M. Meagher
Subjects: Philosophy

The definitive source book on philosophy and the city.

Electoral Politics Is Not Enough

Examines how and why government leaders understand and respond to African Americans and Latinos in northeastern cities with strong political traditions.

The Politics of Air Pollution

Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.

Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City

An overview and critical appraisal of the work of influential sociologist and public intellectual William Julius Wilson.

Race in the Jury Box

Discusses race-conscious jury selection and highlights strategies for achieving racially mixed juries.

Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice

Demonstrates how governmental structure and institutional rules determine who gets what in American cities.

Color and Money

A case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin exploring how lending practices and access to capital are shaped by race.

Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

Builds upon the narratives of community development activists to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities and empowerment within poor areas.

Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora

Links the plight of contemporary urban dwellers of African descent across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, examines their coping strategies, and advocates social policies sensitive to their cultural and societal differences.

Gentrification, Displacement, and Neighborhood Revitalization

Bringing an empirical, objective approach to a topic that has often been the source of emotional and uninformed controversy, Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization provides an introduction ...

Ideology and the Urban Crisis

Ideology and the Urban Crisis explores the philosophical underpinnings of the contemporary debate surrounding the urban crisis. It examines three major ideologies of American city politics by uncovering ...

The Remaking of Pittsburgh

What forces transformed a community in which industrial workers and other citizens exercised a real measure of power over their lives into a metropolis whose inhabitants were utterly dependent on Big ...

Running in the Red

By Irene S. Rubin
Subjects: Sociology

This case study of a politically reformed, middle-sized Midwestern city provides a model of fiscal stress that contrasts sharply with that of America's vast metropolitan centers. Dr. Rubin examines the ...

Letters of Louis D. Brandeis: Volume III, 1913-1915

With the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Louis D. Brandeis emerged as the undisputed intellectual leader of those reformers who were trying to recreate a democratic society free from the economic ...