Urban Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe

   By Mary Manjikian

   Series: Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy

   Housing is no longer about having a place to live – but about state pressures to conform, norms and policies regarding citizenship, and practices of surveillance and security. Breaking new ground in the field of urban politics and international relations, Securitization of Property Squatting in...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Civil Society and Participatory Governance

   Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

   By Maureen M. Donaghy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance

   Spaces of Innovation, Places of Leadership

   By Sofie Bouteligier

   Series: Cities and Global Governance

   As a result of global dynamics—the increasing interconnection of people and places—innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Cultural Contradictions of Progressive Politics

   The Role of Cultural Change and the Global Economy in Local Policymaking

   By Donald Rosdil

   Series: Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy

   Why do some U.S. cities like Seattle and Boston impose social exactions and sustainability targets on private investment while others like Las Vegas and Houston offer property tax and fee remissions to business, tolerate environmentally hazardous activities such as oil drilling, and express...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia

   Edited by Catharine Alexander, Victor Buchli, Caroline Humphrey

   Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. It encompasses Tashkent, Almaty, Astana and...

   Published February 29th 2012 by UCL Press
6. Tower and Slab

   Histories of Global Mass Housing

   By Florian Urban

   Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the...

   Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge
7. 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...

   Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
8. Cities, Politics & Power

   By Simon Parker

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies. Increasingly, however, attention has turned to the function of the city not only as a centre...

   Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
9. Sustainability in European Environmental Policy

   Challenges of Governance and Knowledge

   Edited by Rob Atkinson, Terizakis Georgios, Karsten Zimmermann

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge. It provides an assessment of the EU sustainability strategy and concentrates on three key directives: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Emissions Trading (ET)...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
10. Urban Regeneration in the UK

    By Andrew Tallon

    Exploring the streets of London, Manchester, Belfast, Edinburgh or Cardiff, one cannot help but notice the striking transformations taking place in the urban landscapes. This prominent regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst...

    Published August 16th 2009 by Routledge