Urban Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City

   Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York

   By Laam Hae

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone the gentrification of its space and the post-industrialization of its...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Builders

   Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry

   By Darren Thiel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every day. Yet we know surprisingly little...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. City, Street and Citizen

   The Measure of the Ordinary

   By Suzanne Hall

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts,...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Urban Geography of Boxing

   Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

   By Benita Heiskanen

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship

   Bridging the Territorial and Functional Rationales

   Edited by Bengt Johannisson, Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand

   In present digital times the focus is on globalization and the dynamics and complexities that it creates. However, in spite of being dominated by technology the world remains populated by human beings practising a localized everyday life. This contrast should challenge every researcher who is...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. The Community Development Reader

   2nd Edition

   By James DeFilippis, Susan Saegert

   The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. The City in the Experience Economy

   Role and Transformation

   Edited by Anne Lorentzen, Carsten Jahn Hansen

   The book develops a new approach to urban development in which leisure, pleasure or experiences are seen as key drivers. History, authenticity, urban qualities, local culture and leisure offerings or a vibrant retail sector are thus assets in local development also outside of the big cities....

   Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. Branding Cities

   Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change

   Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, Catherine Kevin

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Diálogos: Placemaking in Latino Communities

    Edited by Michael Rios, Leonardo Vazquez

    Latinos are one of the largest and fastest growing social groups in the United States, and their increased presence is profoundly shaping the character of urban, suburban, and rural places. This is a response to these developments and is the first book written for readers seeking to learn about,...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge