Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies) Books

New and Published Books

1. Creating Smart-er Cities

   Edited by Mark Deakin

   Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic leaders,...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. New Orleans and the Design Moment

   Edited by Jacob Wagner, Michael Frisch

   Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the city could be reorganized. Rather than defining the disaster recovery process as simply a matter of rebuilding the existing city, these voices called for a...

   Published December 5th 2012 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. 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
5. 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
6. Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health

   Edited by Robert Ogilvie

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment – the way our cities and towns are developed – contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those who planned and developed these places...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Consuming Passion (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

   The Rise of Retail Culture

   By Carl Gardner, Julie Sheppard

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   Britain’s high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectorsof the British economy in the last twenty years. It has had an irreversible impact on our towns and cities and, for many people, transformed shopping from an unattractive domestic chore to a pleasurable...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. Marketing Geography (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

   With special reference to retailing

   By Ross Davies

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   This book is concerned with the spatial aspects of the distributive trades. It provides a comprehensive insight into the relationship between consumer demand and retail supply in the context of both recent business trends and increasing planning controls. It unites a wide variety of theories and...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
9. Retail and Commercial Planning (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

   By Ross Davies

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   Changes in the philosophy of planning and the political influences behind it have led to an increasingly ambivalent approach to retail and commercial matters and a lack of clear goals and objectives as to what both central government and the local authorities should be concerned with. At the same...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. Retail Geography (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

    Edited by John Dawson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

    Studies of the organisation and location of retailing activity have played a central role in the emergence of urban geography as a major area of academic study. Moreover, retailing is increasingly the focus of interdisciplinary research, with economists, sociologists, psychologists and marketing...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge