Carl Weber, a best-selling novelist and New York bookstore owner, is adding publisher and editorial director to his list of credits. Urban Books, his new imprint specializing in what he calls “hip-hop ...

At a time when the number of bookstores is shrinking and regional chains have all but disappeared, Carl Weber is opening more African-American bookstores as part of his four-year-old Urban Knowledge ...

Andres Duany, the architect whose work is perhaps most closely associated with the New Urbanism movement in the United States, once described Raymond Unwin’s 1909 book, Town Planning in Practice, as ...

The storyline is a familiar one: An idealistic new teacher, full of hope and enthusiasm, embarks on a career at a tough urban school. The plot then takes one of two typical turns: Either the fervent ...

Nobel Prize laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz once named urbanization in China and the new technical revolution led by the United States as the two great events shaping the world of the 21st century.

“Urban Country Style” marries the charm of the former (baskets, quilts, weathered window boxes) with the edginess of the latter (concrete, factory castoffs, galvanized pipe). It proves an excellent ...