Articles

Ethnic identity | Filipino Americans | Daly City (Calif.) Social conditions | Community life | Transnationalism | Daly City (Calif.) Ethnic relations | Immigrants | Social conditions | Daly City (Calif.) Relations | Philippines Relations

Social status | Working class | Babylonia Social conditions | Nippur (Extinct city) History | Nippur (Extinct city) PopulationHistory | Nippur (Extinct city) Economic conditions | Families | Labor | History | Babylonia Economic conditions | Nippur (Extinct city) Social conditions

Urban Dreams and Realities is a collection of articles on cities in ancient cultures, both their physical and conceptual aspects. A wide range of subjects and... 
Public spaces | City planning | Social aspects | History | Greece | Rome | Collective memory | Sociology, Urban | Group identity

"By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire... 
Science | Social aspects | Economic history | 1800-1999 | Urban ecology (Sociology) | Fire prevention | Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions | Technology | Fires | Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions | Mexico | Social medicine | Social conditions | Social change | HISTORY

This book provides an important account of how the city in South Asia is produced, lived and contested. It examines the diverse lived experiences of urban... 
Slums | City and town life | Cities and towns | Urbanization | Water-supply | City planning | History | Social conditions | Development Studies | Urban Studies | Asian Studies | Human Geography | Cultural Studies | Sociology | City and towns - South Asia - Social conditions

When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have become key... 
Cities and towns | History | Colonial cities | Political Science | Civilization | Asia

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into... 
Tombs | Burial | Pompeii (Extinct city) Social life and customs | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Pompeii (Extinct city) Buildings, structures, etc | Excavations (Archaeology) | Social archaeology | Death | Social aspects | Historical Archaeology | tomb data | social class | Roman burial culture | funerary rituals | funerary epigraphy | Material Culture | Social & Cultural Anthropology | funerary practices | Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology | necropoleis | funerary culture | Ancient Religions | Roman History & Culture | self-representation | commemoration | funerary monuments | Pompeii (Extinct city) | Social life and customs | Italy

"In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The government built spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment... 
Olympic Games Mexico City, Mexico) 1968 | Student movements | Olympics | Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968 | Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D | Public spaces | Social aspects | History | Political aspects | Mexico | HISTORY | Latin America | 20th century | Olympic Games (19th : 1968 : Mexico City, Mexico) | Mexico City | Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D - Social aspects - Mexico - Mexico City

Rites and ceremonies | Selinus (Extinct city) Religious life and customs | Cyrene (Extinct city) Religious life and customs | Religious law and legislation | Religious calendars | Greek religion | Inscriptions, Greek

Working class | Gender identity | Graffiti | Pompeii (Extinct city) Antiquities | Love | Sex

Water and Roman Urbanism provides an innovative archaeological perspective on the Roman urban experience in Britain through its focus on the cultural... 
Water | Water and architecture | Great Britain Antiquities, Roman | Landscape changes | City and town life | Water use | Cities and towns, Ancient | Great Britain CivilizationRoman influences | City planning | History | Social aspects | Great Britain Geography | Great Britain | To 1500

In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In... 
Government paperwork | Municipal government | Capitals (Cities) | City planning | Public records | Bureaucracy | Anthropology | Islamabad | Islamabad (Pakistan) | Pakistan | Records and correspondence | Planning | Politics and government | Islāmābād (Pakistan) | Islāmābād

This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the complex and... 
Extinct cities | City-states | History | Ionia (Turkey and Greece) History | Greece | Ionian Islands (Greece) | To 1500 | Ionian Islands

Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America's... 
Guatemala (Guatemala) Economic conditions | Guatemala (Guatemala) Social conditions | Neoliberalism | Sociology, Urban | Securing the city : an introduction / Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Thomas Offit | Kedron Thomas | Cacique for a neoliberal age : a Maya retail empire on the streets of Guatemala City / Thomas Offit | Privatization of public space : the displacement of street vendors in Guatemala City / Rodrigo J. Véliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill | Living Guatemala City, 1930s-2000s / Deborah Levenson | Guatemala's new violence as structural violence : notes from the highlands / Peter Benson, Kedron Thomas, and Edward F. Fischer | Hands of love : Christian outreach and the spatialization of ethnicity / Kevin Lewis O'Neill | Economic conditions | The security guard industry in Guatemala : rural communities and urban violence / Avery Dickins de Girón | Spaces of structural adjustment in Guatemala's apparel industry | Guatemala | Guatemala (Guatemala) | Primero de julio : urban experiences of class decline and violence / Manuela Camus | Social conditions

Focusing on a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, a dramatic account exposes a secret FDR-approved American internment camp... 
German Americans | Japanese Americans | Evacuation of civilians | Crystal City (Tex.) History | Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) | Utsusjogawa, Sumi, 1929 | Children | History | Concentration camps | Forced repatriation | Iserloh, Ingrid, 1930 | World War, 1939-1945

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. "Children and their Urban Environment"... 
Cities and towns | Health Geography | City and Urban Planning | Sustainable Development | Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies) | Urban economics - United States | City children | City planning | Urban policy | Sociology, Urban