Urban Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

   Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale

   According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Planning Asian Cities

   Risks and Resilience

   Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Futures of the City Region

   Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Healthy City Planning

   From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity

   By Jason Corburn

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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 March 21st 2013 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge India
7. Asian and Pacific Cities

   Development Patterns

   Edited by Ian Shirley, Carol Neill

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   The cities of Asia and the Pacific are at the epicentre of development in what is arguably, the most populous, culturally distinctive, and economically powerful region in the world. 16 major cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Santiago,...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. Sport in the City

   Cultural Connections

   Edited by Michael Sam, John Hughson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport is now a...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
10. 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...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge