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The Metropolis and Modern Life

Series Editor: Zachary Neal, Anthony Orum

This series brings original perspectives on key topics in urban research to today's students in a series of short accessible texts, guided readers, and practical handbooks. Each volume examines how long-standing urban phenomena continue to be relevant in an increasingly urban and global world, and in doing so, connects the best new scholarship with the wider concerns of students seeking to understand life in the twenty-first century metropolis.

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  1. Urban Tourism and Urban Change

    Cities in a Global Economy

    By Costas Spirou

    Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life

    Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines the implications of these changes for urban management and planning sense, for...

    Published November 17th 2010 by Routledge

  2. The Power of Urban Ethnic Places

    Cultural Heritage and Community Life

    By Jan Lin

    Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life

    The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book examines a spectrum of case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the U.S., disagreeing with any perceptions that the rise of ethnic enclaves and heritage places...

    Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge

  3. The Gentrification Debates

    A Reader

    By Japonica Brown-Saracino

    Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life

    Uniquely well suited for teaching, this innovative text-reader strengthens students’ critical thinking skills, sparks classroom discussion, and also provides a comprehensive and accessible understanding of gentrification....

    Published March 8th 2010 by Routledge

  4. Common Ground?

    Readings and Reflections on Public Space

    By Anthony M. Orum, Zachary Neal

    Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life

    Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal...

    Published August 5th 2009 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. The World's Cities: Contrasting Regional, National, and Global Perspectives
    Edited by A.J. Jacobs
    To Be Published July 30th 2012
  2. The Connected City: How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis
    By Zachary P. Neal
    To Be Published August 12th 2012
  3. Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork
    Edited by Richard E. Ocejo
    To Be Published August 19th 2012

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