Urban Dreams: Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso Claudia Roth’s work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into…
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to…
Urban Platforms and the Future City This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the emergence of “platform urbanism”, examining how it transforms urban infrastructure,…
Designing Urban Food Policies: Concepts and Approaches (Repost) This book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding…
Rio De Janeiro : Urban Expansion and the Environment Using Rio de Janeiro as the case study city, this book highlights and examines issues surrounding the development of mega-cities…
Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts: Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city? Through a series of sociological and photographic…
Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States.…
Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities: Theories, Concepts, Ideas Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities explores different conceptual and theoretical angles between social practices and urban environments, culture, infrastructures, technologies, and…
Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy…
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia: An Anthropology of Forgetting, Repair and Urban Traces What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the…