Taylor & Francis India: Urban Cultures

By Tricia Austin

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial theory and design theory. Examples of narrative…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
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Routledge Research in Design Studies

Edited by Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari

The handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of theories, concepts and creative engagements with place that resonate with contemporary concerns and…

Hardback – 2020-05-05 
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Edited by Hilal Alkan, Nazan Maksudyan

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.　It departs from ‘neighbourhoods’ to consider identity, coexistence, solidarity, and violence in relations to a place. 　 Urban Neighbourhood Formations revolves around three major aspects of making…

Hardback – 2020-04-14 
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Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

Edited by Dak Kopec, AnnaMarie Bliss

Revolutions have gripped many countries leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes for many, the growing uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the coercive efforts by the rich, and social uncertainty…

Paperback – 2020-03-26 
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Edited by John Merriman

Originally published in 1981, French Cities in the Nineteenth Century analyses large-scale processes of social change and how this affected the growth of towns and cities of nineteenth century France. The book looks at how this change affected the politics life of France during this period, and…

Paperback – 2020-02-28 
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Routledge Revivals

By Richard J R Kirkby

Originally published in 1973, Semi-Detached London looks at the great suburban expansion of London between the two world wars. The book covers all aspects of urban history, presenting an authoritative and balanced account of the Great Suburban Age, and the final uninhibited forty years before the…

Paperback – 2020-01-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban History

By Sharif Uddin Ahmed

Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840. It is one of the few urban studies which carries through from the ‘old order’…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban History

By Daniel Morrison

Originally published in 1987, this book is based on research concerned primarily with the Central Industrial Region. It uses archival and published sources, focusing on a category of immigrants which is comparatively well documented in official records - those who enlisted formally in the urban…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban History

Edited by Henk Schmal

Originally published in 1981, Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 examines urbanisation in Europe since 1500, paying particular attention to the underlying factors which govern the differentiated process of urbanisation. The book goes on to formulate some of the ways in which these factors…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban History

By James H. Treble

First published in 1979, Urban Poverty in Britain 1830-1914 examines the plight of the poor in towns as a direct result of industrialization. This valuable study examines the major causes of poverty – low pay, casual labour, unemployment, sickness, widowhood, large families, old age, drink and…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban History

By Ron Robin

Originally published in 1990, Signs of Change assess the people of San Francisco according to their own demonstrative standards through the visual symbols. Special attention is devoted to the visual perceptions of immigrants, those whose senses were not smothered by over-familiarity or protracted…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban History

Edited by Jason Pomeroy

Culture refers to not only the arts but also other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. It similarly refers to the customs, institutions, and achievements of a social group, a people, or a nation. Innovation refers to the action or process of change, alteration,…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
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