Urban Studies Books

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31. Creative Industries and Urban Development

    Creative Cities in the 21st Century

    Edited by Terry Flew

    The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century. There has been a connection identified between the rise of creative industries and the urbanisation of the world’s population, particularly in relation to the significance of cities as...

    Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
32. Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?

    Community Development and Social Innovation

    Edited by Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw, Flavia Martinelli, Sara Gonzalez

    Series: Regions and Cities

    For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
33. 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
34. The Chinese City

    By Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz

    China’s cities are home to 10 percent of the world’s population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country’s surging economic power. Their remarkable transformation builds on immense traditions, having lived through feudal dynasties, semicolonialism, and socialist commands....

    Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
35. Transforming Asian Cities

    Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities

    Edited by Nihal Perera, Wing-Shing Tang

    While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a...

    Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
36. Urban Tourism in China

    Edited by Mimi Li, Wu Bihu

    China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past thirty years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010. Urban areas as tourism destination are receiving increasingly more popularity than...

    Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
37. The Emerging Asian City

    Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms

    Edited by Vinayak Bharne

    The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet’s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world’s oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world’s fastest growing...

    Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
38. Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals)

    An Operational Research Approach to the Processes of Public Planning

    By John Friend, Neil Jessop

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government. The authors address themselves to the basic challenge of planning in a democracy and consider issues such as how those elected to exercise choice on our behalf can preserve and expand their...

    Published September 20th 2012 by Routledge
39. Cities and Sustainability

    Edited by Joan Fitzgerald, Michael Motta Jr.

    Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

    ‘Sustainability’ is widely recognized as a key objective of urban development in the twenty-first century. But how is it realized in practice? What are its historical origins and its theoretical underpinnings? How does it connect to, or inform, related movements which seek to create more liveable...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
40. Urban Modelling

    Edited by Alan Wilson

    Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

    The study of cities is one of the grand challenges of twenty-first-century science, and mathematical modelling—in this case, urban modelling—provides a crucial contribution to scholarly and practical projects fully to comprehend their workings, evolution, and associated planning problems. There...

    Published September 7th 2012 by Routledge