From gated communities to Heaven's Gate, the idea and practice of community in America have not only declined but mutated. In the process, Americans' longing to be connected to something greater than
Reviews the premises and research practices of twelve widely popular theoretical orientations in psychology, and tests their applicability to issues of child development in urban environments. Include
First published in 1994, this work has become established as one of the standard texts on urbanization and regional development problems. This revised edition contains updated statistics and analysis,
Public-private partnerships are becoming increasingly important in the local economic development efforts of many cities. This collection of essays compares U.S. cities with those in western Europe.
In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared th
How can contemporary theories of difference enhance our understanding of traditional urban studies concerns such as housing, labor markets, and structures of state entitlement? What are the connectio
Theoretical and grounded studies of transnational processes and practices discuss both their positive and negative aspects. Moving between micro and macro analyses, material expands the boundaries of
"I think this will be a fundamental and widely used text in planning schools and planning courses and will also be of major interest to students and workers in sociology and urban studies. Further, a
Examines the relationship between economic change and urban growth, specifically the continued growth of industrial employment at the expense of the agricultural sector, the impact of government-contr
Geographers, sociologists social planners, and political scientists look at the development and nature of the environment where 77% of Japanese people live. They explore the landscape, changing landma
Current patterns of land use and development are at once socially, economically, and environmentally destructive. Sprawling low-density development literally devours natural landscapes while breeding
This book assesses urban questions from the "new urban sociology" perspective that has developed since the 1980s. One of the leading figures in this tradition of thought, Feagin places class and racia
This volume builds on the work of Kevin Lynch, whose key 1960 work The Image of the City transformed the way design professionals and social scientists deal with urban form and design.The author explo
20 per cent of the Earth's population currently consumes over 80 per cent of available resources. Whilst most Westerners lead lives of unprecedented material comfort fuelled by spiralling consumption
Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people fro
A study of the Chinese Communist Party’s revolutionary enterprise in northern Shaanxi during the 1934-45 period, this book argues that the “Yan’an Way,” long celebrated by the Party as the foundation
Large cities in both North and South are caught in the contradictory logics of globalization and localization. This book looks at how ethnic minorities, tribal groupings and marginalised subcultures i
Generated for a January 1995 international conference in Leiden, the Netherlands, 11 papers cover the cooperative heritage and the rural framework, economic relations and organization, and political a
