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Making an Urban Public

…and contributing members of the urban public. Making an Urban Public tells the story of how Morelia’s residents—particular those from popular groups and poor circumstances—claimed (and often gained) basic rights…

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Urban Rivers

|9780822961857|Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America| Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially,…

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Urban Infrastructure

|9780822946380|Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World|Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to the history of urban

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Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability

…civic leaders alike. In Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability, Jeffrey Craig Sanders examines the rise of environmental activism in Seattle amidst the “urban crisis” of the 1960s and…

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For a Proper Home

|9780822963110|Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010| From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized…

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