Urban Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Fixing Broken Cities

   The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies

   By John Kromer

   Through the insightful lens of an experienced practitioner, this book describes the origin, execution, and impact of urban repopulation strategies—initiatives designed to attract residents, businesses, jobs, shoppers, and visitors to places that had undergone decades of decline and abandonment. The...

   Published July 30th 2009 by Routledge
8. The Integration Debate

   Competing Futures For American Cities

   Edited by Chester Hartman, Gregory Squires

   Racial integration, and policies intended to achieve greater integration, continue to generate controversy in the United States, with some of the most heated debates taking place among long-standing advocates of racial equality. Today, many nonwhites express what has been referred to as "...

   Published July 7th 2009 by Routledge
9. Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice

   Edited by Heather D. Gautney, Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson

   Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary...

   Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge
10. The City in American Political Development

    Edited by Richardson Dilworth

    There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments—cities—in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty of those cities received charters of incorporation well before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and several others were established urban...

    Published March 1st 2009 by Routledge