Routledge Urban Studies - Articles Articles, news, promotions and updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group. en-us 2013-02-02T13:23:47Q Copyright (c) 2013, Routledge Routledge webmaster@example.com tag:,2013:02:01 5 5 Featured Book: The Community Development Reader, 2e tag:,2012:/articles/1.8041 2012-03-07T20:04:12Q 2012-03-07T20:07:13Q "This updated anthology is a welcome addition for those who teach community development. It is a thorough and comprehensive treatment of the field that covers questions of practice and theory. A new section on globalization and contributions on sustainability make it the best single source for students of community development."

—Edward G. Goetz, Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

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]]> Featured Book: Space, Place, and Violence tag:,2012:/articles/1.6535 2012-02-06T14:05:59Q 2012-02-07T15:06:00Q James A. Tyner's (Kent State University) Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically question both violent geographies and the geographies of violence.

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With a focus on direct violence, this book situates violent acts within the context of broader political and structural conditions. Violence, it is argued, is both a social and spatial practice. Adopting a geographic perspective, Space, Place, and Violence provides a critical reading of how violence takes place and also produces place. Specifically, four spatial vignettes—home, school, streets, and community—are introduced, designed so that students may think critically how ‘race’, sex, gender, and class inform violent geographies and geographies of violence.

]]> Featured Book: Urban Theory Beyond the West tag:,2012:/articles/1.7703 2012-02-03T15:08:14Q 2012-02-07T15:25:16Q Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters that raise theoretical issues about cities throughout the world.

]]> Featured Book: Cities and Sexualities tag:,2012:/articles/1.7491 2012-01-05T17:29:27Q 2012-01-05T17:34:28Q In Cities and Sexualities, Phil Hubbard uses case studies to demonstrate why sex matters in any understanding of urban life. This book puts queer theory in dialogue with spatial theory to explain how the city reproduces normative sexual orders.

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]]> Featured Book: Urban Geography, 4e tag:,2012:/articles/1.7490 2012-01-05T17:21:36Q 2012-01-05T17:27:37Q The fourth edition of this textbook features new chapters on urban world and politics, housing and Residential Segregation, and transport in cities; international case studies; new illustrations and tables; essay questions and project activities; and suggestions for further reading.

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]]> Featured Book: Spatial Regulation in New York City tag:,2012:/articles/1.7489 2012-01-05T17:08:13Q 2012-01-05T17:21:14Q In Spatial Regulation in New York City, Themis Chronopoulos examines the applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance policing. He argues that these initiatives deflected attention from the underlying causes of poverty and eroded civil rights while enabling real estate investment, high-end consumption, tourism, and corporate success.

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]]> Featured Book: Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods tag:,2012:/articles/1.7488 2012-01-05T16:34:26Q 2012-01-05T16:44:27Q This collection of essays analyzes roles of ethnic entrepreneurs in the rise of ethnic neighborhoods as places of leisure and consumption. 

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]]> Distributed Urbanism, Book of the Month, December 2011 tag:,2011:/articles/1.7395 2011-12-12T20:31:32Q 2011-12-12T20:37:33Q Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth explores the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, and examines the architectural practices that have emerged as a response

]]> Featured Book: Transitions to Sustainable Development tag:,2011:/articles/1.7394 2011-12-12T20:27:49Q 2011-12-12T20:31:50Q New in paperback!

Transitions to Sustainable Development oultlines the dynamics and governance of long-term change towards sustainable development.

]]> Featured Book: Companion to Urban Design tag:,2011:/articles/1.6542 2011-12-12T15:58:18Q 2011-12-12T21:34:19Q There has never before been a more authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core, foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design. The Companion to Urban Design serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and related fields.

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]]> Featured Book: Automobility in Transition? tag:,2011:/articles/1.7396 2011-12-11T21:28:45Q 2011-12-12T21:33:46Q Automobility in Transition? examines the evolution towards car-based forms of transport: problems associated with it; the success of efforts to deal with problems of pollution, congestion, and safety; and new developments, visions, and strategies.

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]]> Featured Book: Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology tag:,2011:/articles/1.5113 2011-12-01T17:37:36Q 2011-12-01T17:19:37Q The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, edited by Ian Douglas (University of Manchester), David Goode (University College London), Michael C. Houck (Greenspaces Institute), and Rusong Wang (Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences), contains fifty interdisciplinary contributions from leading academics and practitioners from across the world; these engaging entries provide students and practitioners with the wealth of interdisciplinary information needed to manage the biota and green landscapes in urban areas.

This book analyses biodiversity and complexity and provides the science to guide policy and management to make cities more attractive, more enjoyable, and better for our own health as well as the health of the planet. The Handbook is divided into six parts, dealing with the philosophies, concepts and history of urban ecology; followed by consideration of the biophysical character of the urban environment and the diverse habitats found within it. It then examines human relationships with urban nature, the health, economic and environmental benefits of urban ecology before discussing the methods used in urban ecology and ways of putting the science into practice.

The Handbook offers a state-of the art guide to the science, practice and value of urban ecology.

]]> Featured Book: Children, Youth and the City tag:,2011:/articles/1.7200 2011-11-16T11:54:38Q 2011-11-16T11:56:39Q Children, Youth and the City By Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk

Children, Youth and the City argues that young people must be recognized as urban social agents in their own right. This informative book deals with complex theoretical arguments and relates key ideas to this topical subject in a clear and coherent manner. The text is enlivened throughout with global case studies, photographs, discussion questions, suggested reading and websites. It is an excellent resource for students of Human Geography, Urban Studies and Childhood Studies.

 

]]> Featured Book: Cities and Sexualities tag:,2011:/articles/1.7199 2011-11-16T11:48:19Q 2011-11-16T11:52:20Q Cities and Sexualities By Phil Hubbard

Detailing the relationships between sexed bodies, sexual subjectivities and forms of intimacy, Cities and Sexualities explores the role of the city in shaping our sexual lives. At the same time, it describes how the actions of urban governors, city planners, the police and judiciary combine to produce cities in which some sexual proclivities and tastes are normalised and others excluded. In so doing, it maps out the diverse sexual landscapes of the city - from spaces of courtship, coupling and cohabitation through to sites of adult entertainment, prostitution, and pornography. Considering both the normative geographies of heterosexuality and monogamy, as well as urban geographies of radical/queer sex, this book provides a unique perspective on the relationship between sex and the city.

]]> Neo-Bohemia, 2e, Book of the Month, November 2011 tag:,2011:/articles/1.7103 2011-11-01T19:07:21Q 2011-11-01T19:14:22Q Richard Lloyd's Neo-Bohemia, 2e anticipates key urban trends at the dawn of the twenty-first century, and shedds light on both the nature of contemporary bohemias and the cities that house them.

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