Urban Politics Products

By John Black

Originally published in 1981, Urban Transport Planning explains how the systems approach has been applied in the planning of multi-modal transport planning and to demonstrate how a city may be represented by land use zones superimposed with a transport network. It discusses theoretical developments…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

Edited by Michael Dear, Allen J. Scott

Originally published in 1981, Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, is a comprehensive collection of papers addressing urban crises. Through a synthesis of current discussions around various critical approaches to the urban question, the book defines a general theory of…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Thomas Angotti

Originally published in 1993, Metropolis 2000 analyses 20th century metropolitan development and planning under the economic and environmental conditions of the world’s regions. Attempts to achieve the physical integration of the city without economic equality have failed. The book advances the…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Ian Scargill

Originally published in 1983, Urban France examines the rapid growth in French cities between 1950-1980, and the serious consequences that have followed this rapid growth. This volume examines the nature of this urban explosion and the efforts of planners and others to find solutions to the…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Gwyneth Kirk

Originally published in 1980, Urban Planning in a Capitalist Society addresses land use planning as both a technical and a political activity, involving the distribution of scarce resources – land and capital. The book reviews and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of several theoretical…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By David Dewar, Vanessa Watson

Originally published in 1990, Urban Markets looks at how the informal sector of the economy should be encouraged to assist in the alleviation of problems of poverty and unemployment. Despite this rhetoric, few concrete, implementable ways have been developed. This book is concerned with one such…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Daniel Immergluck

Originally published in 1998, Neighbourhood Jobs, Race, and Skills argues that race is a powerful and persistent barrier to employment. Analysing existing literature, this book outlines how racial discrimination in hiring against African Americans appears to remain a contributor to high…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Andy Thornley

Originally published in 1991, Urban Planning Under Thatcherism links theory and practice to assess the changes to the planning system since 1979. It analyses the major trends by investigating the individual modifications in the legislation and the new initiatives which have introduced procedures to…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Jeroen Klink

This book explores how urban spaces are not only remade by and through finance, finance is also remade by and through cities. It investigates how nonfinancial actors, such as public bureaucrats, urban planners, and the media are actively involved in the social constitution of what finance is. It…

Hardback – 2020-03-10 
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Global Urban Studies

By Mary Lawhon

This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars create space for the inclusion of southern cities in urban theory. Making Urban Theory　addresses debates of the past fifty years regarding whether and why scholars should conceptualize…

Hardback – 2020-03-10 
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Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms

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 Valentina Cattivelli

In recent years, new definitions of cities and countries and the regions within them have emerged. In particular, how a region comes to be considered as ‘rural’ or ‘urban’ or somewhere in between has been a subject of some debate. This has led to a drive to seek new territorial classification…

Hardback – 2020-02-20 
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy