The Metropolis and Modern Life
About the Book Series
This series brings original perspectives on key topics in urban research to today's students in a series of short accessible texts, guided readers, and practical handbooks. Each volume examines how long-standing urban phenomena continue to be relevant in an increasingly urban and global world, and in doing so, connects the best new scholarship with the wider concerns of students seeking to understand life in the twenty-first century metropolis.
The Gentrification Debates: A Reader
1st Edition
By Japonica Brown-Saracino
March 09, 2010
Uniquely well suited for teaching, this innovative text-reader strengthens students’ critical thinking skills, sparks classroom discussion, and also provides a comprehensive and accessible understanding of gentrification....
Common Ground?: Readings and Reflections on Public Space
1st Edition
By Anthony M. Orum, Zachary Neal
August 06, 2009
Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal ...