Urban Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Futures of the City Region

   Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sport in the City

   Cultural Connections

   Edited by Michael Sam, John Hughson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport is now a...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
3. Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities

   Edited by Melissa Butcher, Selvaraj Velayutham

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Household Waste Recycling

   By Richard Waite

   Series: Environmental Management Set

   Households in the UK each generate around one tonne of waste per year, and the successful management and disposal of this waste is becoming an increasingly important issue. In many cases, recycling is the most sensible option, and the UK government has set a target to recycle a quarter of all...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes

   Edited by Manfred Steger, Anne McNevin

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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