Urban Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Politics of Urbanism

   Seeing Like a City

   By Warren Magnusson

   Series: Interventions

   To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Framing Strategic Urban Projects

   Learning from current experiences in European urban regions

   Edited by Willem Salet, Enrico Gualini

   Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences. Helpfully divided into three sections, Framing...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Cities, Citizens, and Technologies

   Urban Life and Postmodernity

   By Paula Geyh

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)

   Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment

   By Linda Clarke

   First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism. Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that: Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of the labour...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

   Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling (Routledge Revivals)

   By Alan Wilson

   First published in 1970, this groundbreaking investigation into Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling provides an extensive and detailed insight into the entropy maximising method in the development of a whole class of urban and regional models. The book has its origins in work being carried out...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

   Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

   This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?

   Community Development and Social Innovation

   Edited by Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw, Flavia Martinelli, Sara Gonzalez

   Series: Regions and Cities

   For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Transforming Urban Waterfronts

   Fixity and Flow

   Edited by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Civic Space in Asia

    Building Urban Communities

    Edited by Amrita Daniere, Mike Douglass

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. Using case studies of contemporary city life throughout, the contributors provide insights into the importance...

    Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge