Urban Geography 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. Urban Spaces in Japan

   Cultural and Social Perspectives

   Edited by Christoph Brumann, Evelyn Schulz

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary...

   Published May 15th 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. Rethinking Global Urbanism

   Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities

   Edited by Xiangming Chen, Ahmed Kanna

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities

   From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

   Edited by Peter W. Daniels, K. C. Ho, Thomas A. Hutton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Learning from the Japanese City

   Looking East in Urban Design, 2nd Edition

   By Barrie Shelton

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan’s written language is recognized as one of...

   Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Cities in Globalization

   Practices, Policies and Theories

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
8. An Anatomy of Sprawl

   Planning and Politics in Britain

   By Nicholas A. Phelps

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the ‘Solent City’ stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl – muted, and slow to emerge – yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation...

   Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Events and Urban Regeneration

    The Strategic Use of Events to Revitalise Cities

    By Andrew Smith

    In recent years, major sporting and cultural events such as the Olympic Games have emerged as significant elements of public policy, particularly in efforts to achieve urban regeneration. As well as opportunities arising from new venues, these events are viewed as a way of stimulating investment,...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge