The series is designed to allow undergraduate readers to make sense of, and find a critical way into, urbanism. It will:
* cover a broad range of themes
* reconsider cities in relation to a specific theme
* introduce key ideas and sources
* allow the author to articulate her/his own position.
* introduce complex arguments clearly and accessibly
* bridge disciplines, and theory and practice
* be affordable and well designed
The series will cover social, political, economic, cultural and spatial concerns. It will appeal to students in architecture, cultural studies, geography, popular culture, sociology, urban studies, urban planning. While being firmly situated in the present, it also introduces material from the cities of modernity and post-modernity which, has fed into that position. Each volume will approach cities in a trans-disciplinary way.
By Helen Jarvis, Jonathan Cloke, Paula Kantor
June 26, 2009
Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue. Cities and Gender is a ...
By Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short
January 30, 2008
Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities ...
By Malcolm Miles
July 16, 2007
Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts, ...
By Mark Jayne
February 09, 2006
In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities? Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the...