It took an oil crisis in the 1970s for the Dutch to realise that they simply couldn?t afford to live without bicycles, and today the Dutch lead the world in urban cycling. Fifty years later, another crisis, the pandemic, has led to a boom in bicycling and a radical rethinking of the future of urban mobility, demonstrating the possibility of a ......
One Man's Journey to Heal the Streets and Redeem Himself
For over a decade, Cobe Williams has been a Violence Interrupter, a highly-trained conflict resolution expert working to stop the killing. Alongside thousands of workers across the country, many of whom he trained, Cobe intervenes in street conflicts before they result in murder. Interrupting Violence follows his evolution from a gang leader to ......
How Marginalized American Motorists Fought to Drive and Park
Car ownership is central to the U.S. culture wars about global warming and urban sprawl. While the environmental issues surrounding car use are well known, the car is also the focus of debates about urban redevelopment, racially biased policing, women's employment, immigration, homelessness, and disability rights. Right to the Road: How ......
Reporting from the Front Lines of Inner-City Gun Violence
A groundbreaking expose on the rise of gun violence in recent years. Journalist Josiah Bates pulls back the curtain on a crisis that continues to plague the United States in this gripping narrative. Fueled by the convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest, gun violence has surged to unprecedented levels, devastating marginalized ......
Londoners Making London tells the story of nine projects that have re-defined local community-driven urban regeneration. Countering the expectation that the development of cities is controlled only by powerful developers, this book demonstrates that transformational change is increasingly driven not by architects or planners, but by individuals ......
Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood
Explores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, has undergone significant transformations through cycles of divestment and gentrification. In 2005, the city's decision to rezone the Williamsburg waterfront for high-rise housing led to a profound ......
Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood
Explores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, has undergone significant transformations through cycles of divestment and gentrification. In 2005, the city's decision to rezone the Williamsburg waterfront for high-rise housing led to a profound ......
Narratives of Nostalgia, (Dis)Enchantments, and Aspirations
A collective memoir of community reimagining, The Making of Little Saigon orchestrates the voices of activists, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars who have inhabited and nurtured Little Saigon, Orange County, California, into a beloved sanctuary--a sumptuous enclave of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in the US. This constellation of ......
In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents' daily lives. An ethnography based on rich micro-stories, Cruces situates life poetics amongst other metropolitan processes in three major cities--Madrid, Montevideo, and Mexico City--to reveal ......
