Sosiologi Bandar

This is the first book in Polity’s new ‘Urban Futures’ series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by ‘gentri …

Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe and …

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to dis …

The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate. It is also the subject of intense debate among o …

This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way. …

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in mor …

This book is a fresh and engaging analysis of the city as a central concept in contemporary social thought. It probes the contested and negotiated ways in which cities are built, understood, lived an …

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an ‘urban revolution’, most of this startling urban growth worldwide is h …

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of large …

Discover essential urban survival skills and practical strategies for navigating emergencies in city environments with this comprehensive survival guide. This survival book combines practical knowled …