Urban Sociology - Urban Studies Products

Edited by M. Reza Shirazi, Ramin Keivani

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban Social Sustainability provides an in-depth insight into the discourse and argues that every urban intervention has a social sustainability…

Hardback – 2019-02-14
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Sustainability

Edited by Abel Albet, Núria Benach

This book pays homage to Neil Smith’s ideas, offering a critical approach and rich collection of insights that draw on Smith’s work for inspiration and debate. With interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading experts, the book demonstrates the impact of Smith’s ideas on…

Paperback – 2019-02-14
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City

By Cara Courage

This interdisciplinary book explores the role of art in placemaking in urban environments, analysing how artists and communities use arts to improve their quality of life. It explores the concept of social practice placemaking, where artists and community members are seen as equal experts in the…

Paperback – 2019-02-04
Routledge
Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity

Edited by Sophia Psarra

The Production Sites of Architecture examines the intimate link between material sites and meaning. It explores questions such as: how do spatial configurations produce meaning? What are alternative modes of knowledge production? How do these change our understanding of architectural knowledge?…

Paperback – 2019-01-31
Routledge

By Paul Cloke, Christopher Baker, Callum Sutherland, Andrew Williams

This book explores the hopeful possibility that emerging geographies of postsecularity are able to contribute significantly to the understanding of how common life may be shared, and how caring for the common goods of social justice, well-being, equality, solidarity and respect for difference may…

Hardback – 2019-01-23
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Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics

By Yu-Min Joo

In Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of speculative and extravagant megaprojects. Amid the fast-paced urban and development challenges, many Asian governments have been searching for replicable and inspirational cases in Asia. South Korea and…

Hardback – 2019-01-14
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

Edited by Christopher Bosso

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability,…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

Edited by Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma, Suren Erkman

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from  anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and development studies to…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

By Tendai Chitewere

Sustainable communities raise questions about the compatibility of capitalism and environmentalism and how we can green our way of life in a capitalist economy that values short-term production and consumption over long-term conservation and simple living. If capitalism and its drive towards…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
Routledge

Edited by Laurie Lachance, Laurie Carpenter, Mary Emery, Mia Luluquisen

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a number of early successes, drawing lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities. This important study introduces…

Paperback – 2019-01-03
Routledge
Community Development – Current Issues Series

Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Robert Hassink, Max-Peter Menzel

Although clusters are regarded as important elements in economic development, the strong focus in the literature on the way clusters function is contrasted with a disregard for their evolutionary development: how clusters actually become clusters, how and why they decline, and how they shift into…

Paperback – 2019-01-03
Routledge

By Rachel Meltzer, Alex Schwartz

Drawing extensively from real-life cases, Policy Analysis as Problem Solving helps students develop the analytic skills necessary to advise government officials and nonprofit executives on a wide range of policy issues. Unlike other texts, Policy Analysis as Problem Solving employs a pragmatic,…

Paperback – 2018-12-18
Routledge