Portrays the correlation between rationalism and capitalism; of the rise of the city, the decline of the landed estate, and the formation of the gothic; and of the emergence of the city and the appearance of other genres such as detective narrative and fantasy literature.

Documents the efforts of Philadelphia's Black Power activists to construct a vital and effective social movement combining analyses of racism with a program of grassroots community organizing in the context of the failure of civil rights liberalism to deliver on its promise of racial equality.

The sights, sounds and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of 18th-century Paris rise from the pages of this anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during 100 years of extraordinary social and cultural change.

A picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city, corrupt and contented. The men and women of Philadelphia who emerge in these pages are anything but staid, and certainly not contented.

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city not only of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. This title - part history and part travel guide - examines the city's soul.

An illustrated guide to Urville- a city imagined by the author. The author describes the architectural styles of its buildings, and provides historical, geographical, economic and cultural information. This book offers evidence of and insight into the creative power of the autistic mind, and is of interest to people with autism and without.

Follows three friends - and their overlapping social and family circles - through their day-to-day lives, their perceived struggles and successes and their search for meaning. This work also presents a portrait of a particular place at a particular moment, and an illustration of how the events of a single day can change everything for ever.

Presents graphic fiction's greatest celebration of the Big Apple. This work presents a quartet of graphic works and includes cameo appearances by the author himself; and several illustrations.

Mirrors the life and history of London from the moments the Romans arrived in Londinium to the building of Canary Wharf.

This second edition of The Twentieth-Century American City brings the story of urban America up to date through the early 1990s, with an analysis of recent attempts to revive ageing central cities and a look at a new form of development known as technoburbs or edge cities.

The objects that fill our everyday environment such as streetlights and railway tracks are so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger, more exotic facilities like nuclear power plants have transformed vast tracts of the landscape. This guide is intended for those who want to explore the world created by man.

What many visitors expect to find in London - pageantry, history, living tradition - is dramatically at odds with the experience of living here. This guide gives you the whole of this bewildering city. It offers coverage of historic London, a city containing six World Heritage Sites, but there are also cultural field reports from various quarters.

The 'Art and Architecture' series unites brilliant colour illustrations with detailed information - Venice.

Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center. Beginning with the shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book traces the successive urban forms that rulers have imposed. A multifaceted historical portrait, this illustrated work takes readers to the practical world of each period.

The New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. This title chronicles the immense underbelly of 'The Big Easy'.

Collecting David Harvey's work on Paris during the second empire, this title offers insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer.

This is a response to the culture of poverty thesis - that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morrally inferior - and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absce of black men in families.

Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the city as it was lived in and experienced over time. It is intended for habitual Paris obsessives, for first-time visitors, and for those who know the city only by repute.