Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
The Walkable City: Dimensions of Walking and Overlapping Walks of Life
1st Edition
By Jennie Middleton
May 31, 2023
This book explores everyday walking in contemporary urban life. It brings together important theoretical and empirical insights to understand how the ‘walkability’ of urban spaces can be imagined, planned for, and experienced. The book focuses on the everyday experiences of the urban walker, the ...
The Future of the City Centre: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Bob Giddings, Robert J Rogerson
December 30, 2022
The Future of the City Centre: Global Perspectives debates future directions. It looks beyond the post-industrial, post-commercial, and post-retail city centres to examine differing visions of the future form and function of the urban core. This theme and the related sub-topics will assist the ...
Mega-City Region Development in China
1st Edition
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By Anthony G.O. Yeh, George C. S. Lin, Fiona F. Yang
May 30, 2022
This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country. It examines the challenges faced by the mega-city regions and opens up avenues for debates and further research. Economic reform of...
Mega-Events, City and Power
1st Edition
By Nelma Gusmão de Oliveira
May 06, 2022
This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced. It adopts Bourdieu's concept of field to explore the interests and disputes involved in the production of sports ...
Citizens in the 'Smart City': Participation, Co-production, Governance
1st Edition
By Paolo Cardullo
April 29, 2022
This book critically examines ‘smart city’ discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the ‘citizen’ as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to urban problems. The current hype around smart cities and digital ...
Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle
1st Edition
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By Stefano Di Vita, Mark Wilson
April 29, 2022
Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies. This book adopts a case study approach to examine a diverse range of events taking place in towns and cities in Europe, ...
Urban Art and the City: Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime
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By Argyro Loukaki
April 29, 2022
This book offers original interdisciplinary insights into cities as a diachronic creation of urban art. It engages in a sequence of historical perspectives to examine urban space as an object of apparent quasi-cycles and processes of constitution, exaltation, imitation, contestation and redemption ...
Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities
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By Moritz Ege, Johannes Moser
April 29, 2022
This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in ...
Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade and the Law
1st Edition
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By Alison Brown
December 19, 2018
Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the global south are engaged in spatial...
Green Belts: Past; present; future?
1st Edition
By John Sturzaker, Ian Mell
August 06, 2018
Most of us have heard of green belts – but how much do we really know about them? This book tries to separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to green belts by looking both backwards and forwards. They were introduced in the mid-twentieth century to try and stop cities merging together as ...
Spiritualizing the City: Agency and Resilience of the Urban and Urbanesque Habitat
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By Victoria Hegner, Peter Jan Margry
August 06, 2018
Urban spaces have always functioned as cradles and laboratories for religious movements and spiritualities. The urban forms a central and nourishing agent for the creation of new religious expressions, and continually negotiates new ways of being spiritual and establishing spiritual ideas and ...
Shrinking Cities: Understanding urban decline in the United States
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By Russell Weaver, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Jason Knight, Amy E. Frazier
May 02, 2018
Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and numerous processes that contribute to these patterns with broader policy frameworks that have been ...