Providing new insight into an important comm unity development challenge, this text looks at how to stimu late the formation of community-based organizations and effe ctive citizen action in neighbourhoods. '
This text explores a variety of multidisciplinary discourses for representing the contemporary city. It considers the city''s social and physical articulations and the different interpretations of a good city.'
From Chicago to L.A. critically examines some of the major precepts of what some refer to as the 'Los Angeles School' of urban theory. The contributors to this book break new ground in defining an alternative agenda for urban studies. Just as the Chicago School emerged at a time when that city was reaching new national prominence, Los Angeles is ......
From Chicago to L.A. critically examines some of the major precepts of what some refer to as the 'Los Angeles School' of urban theory. The contributors to this book break new ground in defining an alternative agenda for urban studies. Just as the Chicago School emerged at a time when that city was reaching new national prominence, Los Angeles is ......
The Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies. Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character of cities.
Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community
This work explores how a group of African-American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican and Haitian adolescents respond to living in an inner-city community. It focuses on areas of particular concern to the youth, such as violence, educational opportunities, and a decaying and demoralizing environment.
Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community
This work explores how a group of African-American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican and Haitian adolescents respond to living in an inner-city community. It focuses on areas of particular concern to the youth, such as violence, educational opportunities, and a decaying and demoralizing environment.
Essays on the Geography of Image-Producing Industries
Culture is big business. It is at the root of many urban regeneration schemes throughout the world, yet the economy of culture is under-theorized and under-developed. In this wide-ranging and penetrating volume, the economic logic and structure of the modern cultural industries is explained. The connection between cultural production and ......
