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By Genie N. L. Stowers

We hear the term "sustainability" everywhere today; in the context of city management, the term is most used to mean environmental sustainability or being able to thrive in a world facing climate change. In this book, however, the term means something more extensive—how cities can sustain…

Paperback – 2017-10-02 
Routledge

By Edward Relph

First published in 1987, this book provides a wide-ranging account of how modern cities have come to look as they do — differing radically from their predecessors in their scale, style, details and meanings. It uses many illustrations and examples to explore the origins and development of specific…

Paperback – 2017-09-30 
Routledge

Edited by Sara González

During the past decade many markets have been rediscovered as tourist attractions, food meccas and even regeneration flagships. These transformations are pushing markets to a gentrification frontier clashing with markets’ traditional role as public meeting places that support, economically and…

Hardback – 2017-09-30 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

By Thomas Skuzinski

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems. How do these local officials think? Why do they only sometimes cooperate? What kind of…

Hardback – 2017-09-27 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy

By Heike Mayer, Fritz Sager, David Kaufmann, Martin Warland

Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centres of their nations – so-called ‘secondary capital cities’ (SCCs) – tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science. Yet, capital cities play an important role in shaping the political, economic, social and…

Hardback – 2017-09-20 
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Regions and Cities

Edited by Mark Bevir, Kim McKee, Peter Matthews

Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with the impact of modernist social science on policy making, considering the diverse meanings that inspire governing practices across time, space, and policy…

Hardback – 2017-09-15 
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Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy

By Winifred Curran

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city. It focuses in particular on the impact of gentrification on women and racialized men,…

Hardback – 2017-08-29 
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Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City

Edited by Camillo Boano, Francisco Vergara-Perucich

In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed…

Hardback – 2017-08-24 
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy

Edited by Markus Moos, Deirdre Pfeiffer, Tara Vinodrai

Millennials have captured our imaginaries in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that this generation of young adults lives in downtown neighbourhoods near cafes, public transit and other amenities. Yet, this depiction is rarely unpacked nor problematized. Despite some commonalities, the…

Hardback – 2017-08-18 
Routledge
Global Urban Studies

Edited by Nils Hertting, Clarissa Kugelberg

Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal…

Hardback – 2017-08-08 
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Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Edited by Jonathan Rokem, Camillo Boano

In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies, on a few selected cities in America and Europe, and all too often focus on the abstract city level…

Hardback – 2017-07-27 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

Edited by Kenneth Gibb, Duncan Maclennan, Des McNulty, Michael Comerford

The Scottish economy is at the heart of contemporary constitutional and public policy debates. This substantial new edited collection, the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis for more than 60 years, is a timely update on the classic volume of the same name edited by Sir Alec Cairncross…

Paperback – 2017-07-14 
Routledge
Regions and Cities