Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Global Kaleidoscopes: East-West Cities in Literature
1st Edition
By Michael Moreno
November 17, 2026
This book introduces the concept of the East-West city to explore new urban identities that challenge binary constructions between Eastern and Western cultures through the literary study of global cities. It does so by reimagining our relational connections to time and space across diverse cultural...
Ecopolitics and the Making of Lisbon’s Green Infrastructure (1764-2020)
1st Edition
By Ana Duarte Rodrigues
November 02, 2026
This book reveals how the city’s politics, culture, and ecology shaped urban nature from 1764 to 2020. Through a longue durée history of Lisbon’s public gardens and green spaces, it offers new insights into green infrastructure, climate adaptation, and the making of the modern city. Drawing on ...
Plants and Post-Socialist Cities: Entangled Narratives
1st Edition
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By Maciej Kowalewski, Mikołaj Madurowicz, Włodzimierz Karol Pessel
October 02, 2026
This book offers a theoretically informed exploration of the political, cultural, and ecological significance of urban greenery in post-socialist cities. It traces how plants mediate among memory, infrastructure, and regimes of power across diverse historical and geographical contexts. The book ...
Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable
1st Edition
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By Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Iva Ashish Srivastava
August 27, 2026
With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage. Lack of planning can have severe social, cultural, economic and political repercussions in cities. Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable scrutinizes the paradigms of Urban ...
Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making
1st Edition
By Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore
August 27, 2026
To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism, Queerburbia examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada’s three largest city-regions (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), investigating print media and census representations, ...
City Reconstruction: Urban Policy Innovation Towards Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region
1st Edition
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By Ali A. Alraouf, Odeh Al-Jayyousi, Kheir Al-Kodmany
July 20, 2026
Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this book discusses the complexities of rebuilding cities amid wars and conflicts, highlighting the importance of harnessing global knowledge. It explores innovative approaches to urban planning, emphasizing the transformative power of "...
Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South: Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru
1st Edition
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By Christian Rosen, Nina Gribat
July 20, 2026
This book presents the concept of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery. Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex...
The Monumental
1st Edition
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By Argyro Loukaki
July 20, 2026
The Monumental is an interdisciplinary collection of original, cutting-edge contributions by international researchers pursuing the epistemology and ontology of monuments over time and geography. The contributors are specialists in geography, architectural theory and history, prehistoric, Greek and...
Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell, Ana Vilenica
July 20, 2026
This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide. Through the application of new empirical material and novel theoretical syntheses that exceed conceptual binaries (East-West,...
Liquid Port Cities of the Twenty-First Century: A Pan-Mediterranean Perspective on Cultural Confluences and Contemporary Challenges
1st Edition
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By Wendy Jo Mifsud, Enrico Tommarchi
May 28, 2026
This book provides an up-to-date overview of Mediterranean port cities and their challenges in a “liquid” world. It interrogates emerging cultural narratives of these places, new morphological approaches to understand their transformation, and the global pressures and local dynamics that shape them...
Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Transformation of 19th Century Newcastle
1st Edition
By Peter J. Taylor, Michael Barke, Zachary P. Neal
May 22, 2026
Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle’s becoming a metropolitan city region in the nineteenth century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan status through disruptions of incessant economic advances being ameliorated by myriad social ...
Equity in the Urban Built Environment
1st Edition
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By Bradley Bereitschaft
May 22, 2026
This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities. Achieving more equitable and prosperous urban places requires a critical examination of the ...