Urban Sociology Books

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1. Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities

   Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58976-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Touring Poverty

   By Bianca Freire-Medeiros

   Touring Poverty is the first book to address a highly controversial practice: the turning of impoverished neighborhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. Providing a wealth of empirical material and illustration, the book takes the reader into a journey through Rocinha, a...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59654-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention post-1989

   By Claire Colomb

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-59403-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Israeli Space: Periphery, Identity and Protest

   By Haim Yacobi, Erez Tzfadia

   This book examines the issue of Israeli space and in particular looks at cities, suburbs, development towns and Zionist agricultural landscape. Taking a multidisciplinary approach it contributes to the field of planning theory, political science, urban sociology, critical geography and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57324-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males: Contemporary Perspectives on Cultural and Structural Factors

   Edited by Pedro Noguera, Aída Hurtado, Edward Fergus

   This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive picture of Latino males in the US today and sets the direction of future research and policy intervention. While research on men and masculinity has increased substantially in recent years, very little of the new research has...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-87779-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City

   By Pauline Lipman

   Urban education is changing everyday in powerful ways. The old paradigms describing urban education are being eclipsed by new realities such as global neoliberal forces, a new articulation of race and class, and a politics of fear. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-80224-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Chinatowns in a Transnational World: Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon

   Edited by Ruth Mayer, Vanessa Künnemann

   Interrelating different locations and time frames, this volume discloses both the numerous analogies and fascinating differences which characterize the myths and realities of Chinatowns in Europe and the United States....

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-89039-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Shrinking Cities: International Perspectives and Policy Implications

   Edited by Karina M. Pallagst, Thorsten Wiechmann, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez

   The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-80485-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Rio de Janeiro: Urban Life through the Eyes of the City

   Edited by Beatriz Jaguaribe

   Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to the understanding of Rio de Janeiro, one of the most contested urban terrains in the world. Offering a rich diversity of examples extracted from lived...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-56931-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes

    Edited by Manfred Steger, Anne McNevin

    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...

    January 2011 | 978-0-415-59863-7 | Hardback (Routledge)