《没有郊区的城市》是戴维·鲁斯克的重要著作之一。他利用大量的数据分析了美国320个大都市地区522个中心城市从1950年到1990年的社会状况，令人信服地论述了美国城市的经济发展、种族矛盾、公共管理政策等方面的问题，值得中国借鉴。

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but as Sherrena puts it, “Love don’t pay the bills.” She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas. Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America’s vast inequality—and to people’s determination and intelligence in the face of hardship. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

A review of the original French edition of this book in the American Journal of Sociology hailed it as "the most finished product yet to emerge from the new (Marxist) school of French urban sociology... The aim of the book is nothing less than to reconceptualize the field of urban sociology. It is carried out in two stages: a critique of the literature of urban sociology (and urbanization) and an attempt to lay the Marxist bases for a reconstructed urban sociology." The problems facing the world's cities, whether problems of development or of decay, cannot be solved until they have been diagnosed. The race riots in Detroit, the shantytowns of Paris, the financial crisis of New York must not be seen in isolation. The mushrooming cities of the third world, demolition and urban sprawl at home are located in a network of economics, social welfare and power politics, and the decisions we are called upon to make elude us in a fog of ideology. This brilliant exposition of the function of the city in social, economic and symbolic terms illuminates the creation and structuring of space by action—administrative, productive and more immediately human. The interaction of environment and life-style, the complex of market forces and state policy against a background of traditional social practice is scrutinized with the aim of establishing concepts and research methods that will enable us to come to grips with the cities themselves and the way in which we view them. Castells draws on urban renewal in Paris, the English New Towns, the American megalopolis for concrete data in his empirical and theoretical investigation. In this English edition, a new Part V has been added on urban development in America. The chapters on the pobladores in Chile and the struggle of the FRAP in Quebec have been greatly extended and an Afterword traces the development of research in the past five years.

《文明中的城市》是英国著名城市史专家彼得·霍尔的经典之作，全书由“作为文化熔炉的城市”“创意环境之城”“艺术与技术的联姻”“城市秩序的建立”，以及“艺术、技术和机构的结合”五篇三十章构成，作者从古到今，旁征博引，从理论和实践两个层面回答了“文化、创新和城市秩序”三个核心问题，几乎无所不在，无所不包，具有极高的学术价值，对当下我国城市化进程遇到的诸多问题具有指导、警示和借鉴意义。

纽约的原真性在哪里？或许在全球客眼中那些迷人的食坊酒肆、艺术画廊、旧建筑，本身就是纽约城市发展的不断变化的代表。一个地方的魅力不在于一切从未改变，而是在时代的进化中，如何让这种原真性得以保存。 本书作者观察分析了六个纽约原生地区——布鲁克林、哈莱姆、东村、联合广场、雷德胡克、都市农园涉身城市规划改造与社区邻里文化的苏醒与抗争的历史过程，揭示了“原真性”作为一种文化权力的崭新意义。