Major Works: Geography

New and Published Books

1. Global Cities

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
2. Population Studies

   Edited by Edith Gray, Zhongwei Zhao

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality. To be human is to be part of the demographic process, so contemporary studies of population focus not only on the implications of population size and...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Cities and Sustainability

   Edited by Joan Fitzgerald, Michael Motta Jr.

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   ‘Sustainability’ is widely recognized as a key objective of urban development in the twenty-first century. But how is it realized in practice? What are its historical origins and its theoretical underpinnings? How does it connect to, or inform, related movements which seek to create more liveable...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Urban Modelling

   Edited by Alan Wilson

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   The study of cities is one of the grand challenges of twenty-first-century science, and mathematical modelling—in this case, urban modelling—provides a crucial contribution to scholarly and practical projects fully to comprehend their workings, evolution, and associated planning problems. There...

   Published September 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution brings together as one set, or individual volumes, groundbreaking retail studies from the field of human geography. Encompassing town and retail planning, marketing geography, the development of shopping centres and the rise of consumerism...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. Retail Geography (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

   Edited by John Dawson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   Studies of the organisation and location of retailing activity have played a central role in the emergence of urban geography as a major area of academic study. Moreover, retailing is increasingly the focus of interdisciplinary research, with economists, sociologists, psychologists and marketing...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
7. Retail and Marketing Channels (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

   Edited by Srinivas Reddy, Luca Pellegrini

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   Retailer’s buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration. As vertical relationships in marketing channels have strengthened their influence over the shape of the industry, the producer-distributor relationship has become more central to an...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. Retailing (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

   Shopping, Society, Space

   By Larry O'Brien, Frank Harris

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   This textbook provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and fully integrated treatment of retailing as a) and industry, b) a force shaping social attitudes and contemporary culture, and c) a force for change in modern townscapes. Unlike other texts which focus on specific topics, this book provides a...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
9. Shopping Centre Development (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

   Edited by John Dawson, Dennis Lord

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   The shopping centre has become an established feature of urban structure over the past thirty years. Development of centres has been rapid and little attempt has been made to consider the development process and the problems caused by it. There is a growing awareness that centres are not always...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Development of the Wholesaler in the United States 1860-1900 (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

    By Bill Reid Moeckel

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

    Although the scientific study of marketing is relatively new, certain aspects of it have been analyzed in considerable detail. A body of literature exists, for example, on the various phases of retailing and advertising. It is only in the last decade or two, however, that much attention has been...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge