An Urban Fairytale by Saskia Sassen
After she likened the growth of modern cities to a monster devouring traditional neighbourhoods, The Guardian challenged the author and her son, artist Hilary…
Becoming Jane Jacobs, a new book by Peter L. Laurence
Penn Press, January, 2016 Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and…
The State of Asian and Pacific Cities 2015 by UN-Habitat
The report, from UN Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) and ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Comission for Asia & The Pacific),…
Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa
Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa, edited by Africa Centre for Cities (ACC), powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa’s “mean streets”.
Urban Planning Society of China
The Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC) is a national academic community and professional organizations in the field of urban planning. Its business scope includes:…
Center for Urban Innovation
The Center for Urban Innovation: Supports interdisciplinary, scholarly research on urban sustainability and the expanding role of intermediary institutions in the design and governance…
Beyond Rust, Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
“The twentieth-century story of metropolitan Pittsburgh is fascinating and instructive, and nowhere is it told as completely as Dieterich-Ward has done here.”—David Stradling, University…
Comparisons: Kinder Institute’s Houston and Copenhagen Surveys
The Kinder Institute at Rice University has been capturing Houstonian’s attitudes about all things urban for 34 years in its annual Kinder Houston Area Survey. In 2014, the Kinder Institute, through its Global Cities Initiatives in Scandinavia, published its first comparative area survey with Copenhagen.
Centre for Urban Studies
The Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) is one of 20 designated Research Priority Areas at the University of Amsterdam and forms part of the…
Center for Urban & Regional Analysis
CURA is an interdisciplinary group of scholars in social, natural, and environmental sciences; applied economics; agriculture; engineering; health and medical professions; and the humanities…