If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the...

When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic...

Jones begins by describing the movement whereby Greek politcal institutions swept over the Near Eastern lands conquered by Alexander. He then goes on to trace the adaptation of the city to its new environment, the Hellenistic kingdom and the Roman empire...

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardIs the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement?These...

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodityTwo material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, commercial...

From an eminent legal scholar and the president of the ACLU, an essential account of how transportation infrastructure--from highways and roads to sidewalks and buses--became a means of protecting segregation and inequality after the fall of Jim Crow.

A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni.Black literature is perhaps...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building.Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to...

Dispatches from the Threshold is an emergent archive of the burgeoning movement for housing justice in North America and beyond.Housing insecurity turned catastrophic during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the cruelty of threadbare tenant protections and...

The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data flows that condition much of our lives now regularly include Global Positioning System (GPS) readings and satellite images of...

How rulers in ancient and medieval Europe expressed their power through cities, buildings, and sitesThe Power of Place explores the nature of power―the power of kings, emperors, and popes―through the places that these rulers created or developed,...