Forthcoming Urban Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal

   Partnerships in Action

   By Rory Shand

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts

   Edited by Kathleen Gallagher, Jonothan Neelands

   Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibilities. At the heart of this text lies the question of how theatre can illuminate the urban and how theatre is illuminated by the urban. The city, like...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Focal Press
3. The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

   By Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development

   International Perspectives

   By Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling

   This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for ‘solving community problems’. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice...

   To Be Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
5. Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities

   Edited by Anne Lorentzen, Bas van Heur

   Series: Regions and Cities

   The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics...

   To Be Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Urban Regeneration in the UK

   2nd Edition

   By Andrew Tallon

   Striking transformations are taking place in the urban landscape. The regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst governments and populations since the global economic downturn. This textbook provides an accessible and critical...

   To Be Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. Critical Infrastructure

   Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Third Edition

   By Robert S. Radvanovsky, Allan McDougall

   Since the initial inception of this book, there have been significant strides to safeguard the operations of our world’s infrastructures. In recent years, there has also been a shift to more fluid postures associated with resilience and the establishment of redundant infrastructure. In keeping with...

   To Be Published April 25th 2013 by CRC Press
8. Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban

   Edited by Linda Peake, Martina Rieker

   In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in...

   To Be Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
9. Globalization, Modernity and the City

   By John Rennie Short

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention. Cities are an integral part of the network of globalization and important sites of...

   To Be Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
10. Urban Decline (Routledge Revivals)

    By David Clark

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. When this book was first published in 1989, however, a massive process of counter-urbanization was underway, which saw the loss of population and jobs...

    To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge