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...
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 ...
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 ...
Ecological Marketing in EU Cities
1st Edition
By Magdalena Tomala
March 27, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of eco- marketing in large cities of the European Union. It explains how environmental marketing becomes a strategic tool for building sustainable development in cities. This book explores theoretical foundations such as green marketing and sustainable ...
Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Mania: Urban Change in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By David Wilson, Elvin Wyly
March 18, 2026
This innovative book applies the metaphor of Dracula to understand a highly controversial reality that marks so many cities today: how the rage of smart city development and growth proceeds, is organized, and produces benefits for some and afflicts others. It also explores how social science ...
The Politics of Land and Value: Case Studies from Across the Globe
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By Mi Shih, Kathe Newman
February 27, 2026
This book investigates the treatment of land as a source of money in global urban processes. Probing land development at moments of value creation, capture, negotiation, contestation, and transformation, it sheds light on how and why value practices matter in transforming the politics of the status...