This collection offers an in-depth look at municipal voting behaviour during local elections in eight of Canada’s largest cities.

Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.

Drawing from a cross-national perspective and a range of comparative vantage points, Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of poverty.

This book offers a thorough account of the attitudes and behaviour of electors towards the 2014 Toronto Mayoral Election.

This short, engaging book details the life history of Esperanza Ruiz and four generations of her family. Their stories recount a century of change in a poor highland community in Panama, and how ordinary people struggle, survive, and impact history.

The book develops a capacity framework for policymakers and researchers alike in order to address elements that limit the development of local innovation clusters.

Written over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.

Montreal at War chronicles the experiences of civilians, soldiers, and returned veterans in Montreal during the First World War.

Illuminating how the identities of Taiwanese diasporic subjects are contextually and historically shaped, this book advances a nuanced, complex, and differentiated understanding of globalization.

Reading modern architecture and urbanism in socialist and capitalist cities, this work challenges the twentieth-century divide between East and West in favour of a shared and contested history that plays out on the peripheries of the world’s cities.

Accidental Wilderness showcases how the removal of city rubble and its displacement can result in new urban parklands with significant ecological importance for the health of the city and its residents.

Streetlife reflects on the purpose, value, and meaning of our long valued but often taken for granted urban storefronts.

David Miller presents a compelling case that significant progress can be made at the local level by duplicating the actions of nine leading cities around the world.

In these brief and accessible case studies, Costa Rican millennial leaders draw from global solutions to address local problems, inviting students of these emerging social movements to apply similar strategies to their communities at home.

This book chronicles the Amsterdam’s 17^th-century Canal District District’s origins and historical evolution over 400 years and debates its future prospects under pressures of global tourism, gentrification, and rapid economic change.

A historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centred on the experiences of Black students and faculty at McGill University.