Books in the Comparative Urban and Community Research series

This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place", and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, planning and sociology.

This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City

Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement

This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place", and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, planning and sociology.

This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City