Geography Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. Transcultural Cities

   Border-Crossing and Placemaking

   Edited by Jeffrey Hou

   Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Geographies of Privilege

   Edited by France Winddance Twine, Bradley Gardener

   How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Environmental Hazards

   Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster, 6th Edition

   By Keith Smith

   The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to illustrate how natural and human systems...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Planning and Place in the City

   Mapping Place Identity

   By Marichela Sepe

   Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city’s uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Environmental Security

   Approaches and Issues

   Edited by Rita Floyd, Richard Matthew

   Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet’s natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. For over twenty years, considerable research and debate have focused on clarifying or disputing linkages between various forms of environmental...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. Cities and Climate Change

   By Harriet Bulkeley

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Cities and Photography

   By Jane Tormey

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Urban Design Reader

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald

   Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series

   The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
9. Global Environmental History

   An Introductory Reader

   Edited by John R. McNeill, Alan Roe

   Series: Rewriting Histories

   Global Environmental History introduces this rapidly developing field through a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions. Environmental history is a subject especially suited to global and transnational approaches and, over the course of the present generation, an increasing...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Middle East Today

    Political, Geographical and Cultural Perspectives, 2nd Edition

    By Dona J. Stewart

    The new edition of The Middle East Today provides an accessible and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Middle East Studies, Middle East politics and geography. This updated and revised edition features a host of pedagogical features to assist students with their...

    Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge