Urban Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. Transcultural Cities

   Border-Crossing and Placemaking

   Edited by Jeffrey Hou

   Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Urban Youth and School Pushout

   Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED

   By Eve Tuck

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   Recent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing accountability policies, most notably through the use of mayoral control and secondary school exit exams. This innovative and provocative volume excavates the unintended consequences of such policies on...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Planning and Place in the City

   Mapping Place Identity

   By Marichela Sepe

   Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city’s uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Yes We Can?

   White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency, 2nd Edition

   By Adia Harvey-Wingfield, Joe Feagin

   The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama’s historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama’s service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency....

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Global Cities

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

   Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

   This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Touring Poverty

   By Bianca Freire-Medeiros

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy

   Global Perspectives

   Edited by Carl Grodach, Daniel Silver

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity....

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Building the New Urbanism

    Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape

    By Aaron Passell

    The New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent decades. It proposes to reform conventional suburban development by "building community." Building the New Urbanism asks "why new urbanism now?" to provide...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge