Routledge Urban Studies - Books, News and Conferences ATOM feed of recently featured books, news, conferences and more. en-us 2013-04-05T15:40:11Q Copyright (c) 2013, Routledge Routledge webmaster@example.com tag:,2013:04:05 5 5 Spatial Regulation in New York City Wins the 2012 Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.8328 2012-04-16T13:50:45Q 2012-04-10T13:52:46Q 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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]]> City Reader: Amazon Bestseller in Urban & Land Use Planning tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.7803 2012-02-10T19:47:30Q 2012-02-10T19:52:31Q 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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]]> 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.

]]> Interested in the Space and Place Issues of Occupy Wall Street? tag:,2011:/blurbs/21.7253 2011-11-17T21:31:03Q 2011-11-17T21:36:04Q