Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

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1. Cities and Climate Change

   By Harriet Bulkeley

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Cities and Photography

   By Jane Tormey

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Children, Youth and the City

   By Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and forms of social...

   Published November 2nd 2011 by Routledge
4. Cities and Sexualities

   By Phil Hubbard

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces where new understandings of sexuality take shape. In an era of global business...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
5. Cities, Politics & Power

   By Simon Parker

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies. Increasingly, however, attention has turned to the function of the city not only as a centre...

   Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
6. Cities and Design

   By Paul L. Knox

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in size and importance, reflecting...

   Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge
7. Cities and Gender

   By Helen Jarvis, Jonathan Cloke, Paula Kantor

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue. Cities and Gender is a...

   Published May 25th 2009 by Routledge
8. Cities and Cinema

   By Barbara Mennel

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Films about cities abound. They provide fantasies for those who recognize their city and those for whom the city is a faraway dream or nightmare. How does cinema rework city planners’ hopes and city dwellers’ fears of modern urbanism? Can an analysis of city films answer some of the questions posed...

   Published March 30th 2008 by Routledge
9. Cities and Economies

   By Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
10. Cities and Nature

    By Lisa Benton-Short, Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short, John Rennie Short

    Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

    Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. The city has been treated in geographical writings as only a social phenomena, and at the same time, environmental scientists have tended to ignore the urban....

    Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge