Built Environment Products

Edited by Kate Jordan, Ayla Lepine

Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s.　This book　is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of architecture and its associated…

Hardback – 2018-04-16
Routledge

By Marian Macken

Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the…

Paperback – 2018-04-13
Routledge
Design Research in Architecture

Edited by Zhongjie Lin, José L. S. Gámez

Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development. Relevant debates, however, reveal that the prevailing definitions and practices of compact cities are tied primarily to traditional Western urban forms. This book reinterprets…

Hardback – 2018-04-10
Routledge
China Perspectives

By Jun Rentschler

Countries around the world are spending up to $500 billion per year on subsidising fossil fuel consumption. By some estimates, the G20 countries alone are spending around another $450 billion on subsidising fossil fuel production. In addition, the indirect social welfare costs of these subsidies…

Hardback – 2018-04-10
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Energy Policy

By David Toke

Low Carbon Politics focuses on how policies and institutions have influenced the deployment of renewable energy and nuclear power in the electricity sector. Cultural theory is used to analyse this. Egalitarian pressures have had a profound influence on technological outcomes, not merely in…

Hardback – 2018-04-05
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Routledge Studies in Energy Policy

Edited by Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Richard Dennis, Deryck W. Holdsworth

‘Hurry’ is an intrinsic component of modernity. It exists not only in tandem with modern constructions of mobility, speed, rhythm, and time–space compression, but also with infrastructures, technologies, practices, and emotions associated with the experience of the ‘mobilizing modern’. ‘Hurry’ is…

Hardback – 2018-03-29
Routledge
Routledge Research in Historical Geography

By Peta Carlin

On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Adopting weaving as its overarching metaphor, it departs from Gottfried Semper’s discussion of correspondences between architecture and textiles, and…

Hardback – 2018-03-27
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Ashgate Studies in Architecture

Edited by Angeliki Lymberopoulou

The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other, and were often forced to co-exist, frequently learning to reap the benefits of co-operation. Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews, and their interactions all contributed…

Hardback – 2018-03-27
Routledge
Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies

Edited by Sabine Knierbein, Tihomir Viderman

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space. This suggests democracy is a spatial practice rather than an abstract professional field organized by…

Hardback – 2018-03-26
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Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Edited by Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes, Heidi Stoner

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material. The…

Hardback – 2018-03-26
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art History

Edited by Katherine L. Yates, Corey J. A. Bradshaw

The generation of offshore energy is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape. This book brings together the ecological, economic, and social implications of the spatial conflict this growth entails. Covering all energy-generation types (wind, wave, tidal, oil, and…

Hardback – 2018-03-20
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Earthscan Oceans

By Luca Zan, Bing Yu, Jianli Yu, Haiming Yan

Heritage Sites in Contemporary China: Cultural Policies and Management Practices focuses on cultural heritage policies in China emerging in the period of the 11th and 12th Five Year Plans. Various important Chinese sites across China are investigated, including Luoyang Sui, Daming Gong, Niuheliang,…

Hardback – 2018-03-19
Routledge
Planning, Heritage and Sustainability