Books in the The Metropolis and Modern Life series

Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of the radical changes in contemporary urban systems within a broad global perspective. Featuring contributions from renowned scholars, this book serves as a touchstone for exploring the scientific and policy needs of cities as new global power centers.

Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of the radical changes in contemporary urban systems within a broad global perspective. Featuring contributions from renowned scholars, this book serves as a touchstone for exploring the scientific and policy needs of cities as new global power centers.

Explores how public space can be a facilitator of civil order, a site for power and resistance, and a stage for art, theatre, and performance. This title offers questions to provoke discussion, and concludes with thoughts on how these models can be combined by future scholars of public space to yield understanding of how public space works.

Offers both a sociological/cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities, as well as implications of these changes for urban management and planning sense, for success and failure in metropolitan change.

Discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in US society. This book examines various case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the US, disagreeing with any perceptions that the rise of ethnic enclaves and heritage places are harbingers of separatism or balkanization.

The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology and anthropology. Broken down into sections that cover key aspects of ethnographic research, Ethnography and the City will expose readers to important works in the field, while also guiding students to the study of method as they embark on their own work.

The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology and anthropology. Broken down into sections that cover key aspects of ethnographic research, Ethnography and the City will expose readers to important works in the field, while also guiding students to the study of method as they embark on their own work.

The World's Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth.

The World's Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth.

Public Space/Contested Space illustrates the ways in which creative interventions in public space have constituted a significant dimension of contemporary political action.

Public Space/Contested Space illustrates the ways in which creative interventions in public space have constituted a significant dimension of contemporary political action.