Urban Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The University and the City

   By John Goddard, Paul Vallance

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. China's New Urbanization Strategy

   By China Development Research Foundation

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing China. Of China’s 1.3 billion people, around half still live in rural areas. There has been huge migration from rural areas to cities in recent years, a trend that is likely to continue strong for some time. The strains that this vast migration...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Integral Nature of Things

   Critical Reflections on the Present

   By Lata Mani

   The world is an interdependent whole of which everything is an integral, complexly related, part. Yet current ways of thinking, and being, persistently separate social phenomena and the individual self from the multiple dimensions with which they are interconnected. The Integral Nature of Things...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
5. Participolis

   Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India

   Edited by Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath, M. Vijayabaskar

   Series: Cities and the Urban Imperative

   While participatory development has gained significance in urban planning and policy, it has been explored largely from the perspective of its prescriptive implementation. This book breaks new ground in critically examining the intended and unintended effects of the deployment of citizen...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
6. Water Resources Policies in South Asia

   Edited by Anjal Prakash, Sreoshi Singh, C. G. Goodrich, S. Janakarajan

   Falling or stagnant agricultural growth, increasing dependence on groundwater, climate variability, swift industrialization, and unplanned and unregulated urbanization in South Asia have spawned a variety of challenges for water resources governance, management and use: groundwater overdraft;...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
7. Locating Right to the City in the Global South

   Edited by Tony Samara, Shenjing He, Guo Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Politics of Urbanism

   Seeing Like a City

   By Warren Magnusson

   Series: Interventions

   To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Real Estate Economics

   A Point-to-Point Handbook

   By Nicholas Pirounakis

   Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

   Real Estate Economics: A point-to-point handbook introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation between RE and the macro-economy, RE finance, investment appraisal, taxation, demand and supply, development, market dynamics and price bubbles...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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