Forthcoming Urban Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. City Suburbs

   Placing suburbia in a post-suburban world

   By Alan Mace

   The majority of the world’s population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs. City Suburbs considers contemporary Anglo-American suburbia, drawing on research in outer London it looks at life on the edge of a world city from the perspective of residents. Interpreted...

   To Be Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. Musical Performance and the Changing City

   Post-industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States

   Edited by Fabian Holt, Carsten Wergin

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Street

   A Quintessential Social Public Space

   By Vikas Mehta

   Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public spaces that encourage social behavior in our cities and neighborhoods is an important goal of city design. How do we make sociable streets? This book shows us how these ordinary public spaces can be planned and designed to become settings...

   To Be Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Shanghai Alleyway House

   A Vanishing Urban Vernacular

   By Gregory Bracken

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social...

   To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Chinese Globalization

   A Profile of People-Based Global Connections in China

   By Jiaming Sun, Scott Lancaster

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland China. It focuses on individual level globalization in China and how global socialization impacts local residents’ behaviors, lifestyle, value orientation and the consequence of...

   To Be Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Low-Carbon Land Transport

   Policy Handbook

   By Daniel Bongardt, Felix Creutzig, Hanna Hüging, Ko Sakamoto, Stefan Bakker, Sudhir Gota, Susanne Böhler-Baedeker

   Practical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems. Based on wide ranging research, it shows how policies can be bundled successfully and worked into urban transport decision-making and planning strategies. With case studies from developed and...

   To Be Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Staging Mobilities

   By Ole B. Jensen

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   In recent years, the social sciences have taken a ‘mobilities turn’. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not ‘just happen’. Mobilities are carefully and meticulously designed, planned and staged (from above). However, they are equally importantly acted out, performed and...

   To Be Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
8. Handbook of SCADA/Control Systems Security

   Edited by Robert Radvanovsky, Jacob Brodsky

   The availability and security of many services we rely upon—including water treatment, electricity, healthcare, transportation, and financial transactions—are routinely put at risk by cyber threats. The Handbook of SCADA/Control Systems Security is a fundamental outline of security concepts,...

   To Be Published February 26th 2013 by CRC Press
9. Urban Energy Systems

   An Integrated Approach

   Edited by James Keirstead, Nilay Shah

   Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably. This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this. Drawing on analytical tools and case studies developed at Imperial College London, the book presents...

   To Be Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature

    Writing Architecture and the Body

    By Laura Colombino

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where the architectural landscape and the body enter into relation with each other. Colombino visits the city in...

    To Be Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge