Urban Politics Products

Edited by Adenrele Awotona

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan. The book draws together expert contributions from…

Hardback – 2019-08-08 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Edited by Anne Wagner, Le Cheng

This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city. It presents a range of approaches to view the ill city through cinematic and televisual characterization in urban frameworks, political contexts, and cultural settings. Each chapter deconstructs…

Hardback – 2019-06-17 
Routledge
Law, Language and Communication

By Hans Andersen Skifter

This book provides the first in depth interpretation of how to understand the causes of ethnic residential segregation, across Western European countries and the USA. In many countries, ethnic minorities have obtained low quality housing and may be concentrated in certain parts of cities. This book…

Hardback – 2019-06-06 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

By Khalid Madhi

The book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring, power relations, and the touristic boom in cities. Through an indepth analysis of Marrakech, Morroco, the book proposes a comprehensive analytic framework. It highlights the issues of (post)coloniality, ideology, heritage-commodification,…

Hardback – 2019-05-30 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

By Keith Jacobs

Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways that housing accentuates…

Paperback – 2019-05-28 
Routledge
Explorations in Housing Studies

By David Thorpe

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system. With four out of five people predicted to be urban dwellers by 2080, ‘One Planet’ Cities proposes a pathway to genuine…

Paperback – 2019-05-13 
Routledge

Edited by Karen Büscher

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as ‘safe havens’ for those seeking protection, as concentrations of public administrative and military apparatus, and as symbolic bases of state sovereignty and public authority. Heavy fighting in South…

Hardback – 2019-05-13 
Routledge

By Li Tian, Yan Guo

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, the process by which fringe areas of cities develop. Recent institutional change has helped clarify property rights over collective land, facilitating…

Hardback – 2019-04-29 
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City

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…

Paperback – 2019-04-15 
Routledge

Edited by Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, Steven Pinch

Originally published in 1984. The authors of this study address a number of major themes related to the analysis of public services: the role of public choice theory, the importance of professors and organisations, the value of neo-Marxist theories and the importance of space. These issues are…

Paperback – 2019-04-13 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies

Edited by Ulrich Hilpert

Innovation is often understood exclusively in terms of the economy, but it is definitely a result of human labour and ingenuity, and of the relationships among individuals and social groups. Some societies and governmental structures are clearly more successful than others: they act in divergent…

Hardback – 2019-04-08 
Routledge
Regions and Cities

Edited by Charlotte Lemanski

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship. It demonstrates the ways in which adopting an ‘infrastructural citizenship’ lens illuminates a broader understanding of the material and civic nature of…

Hardback – 2019-04-05 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City