Urban Studies Products

Edited by Sallie Westwood, John M Williams

First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of…

Paperback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association

Edited by Nick Jewson, Susanne Macgregor

Transforming Cities examines the profound changes that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the twentieth century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and co-operation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms…

Paperback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association

By Emanuel de Kadt, Gavin Williams

Originally published in 1974 Sociology and Development are a selection papers from the British Sociological Association’s conference on development. The book combines both theoretical discussion and empirical material drawn from both urban and rural areas in Africa, Latin America, China, the USSR…

Paperback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association

Edited by Richard Brown

Originally published in 1973 Knowledge, Education and Cultural Change surveys the present state of the field of the sociology of education. The book addresses the claim that much of the research in the sociology of education should be extended to issues of wider theoretical significance, the book…

Paperback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association

By Joe Ravetz

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on ‘deeper complexity’, applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change, and rising inequality. The author provides a new framework for the collective intelligence – the capacity for learning and synergy – in…

Paperback – 2020-05-07 
Routledge

Edited by Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari

The handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of theories, concepts and creative engagements with place that resonate with contemporary concerns and…

Hardback – 2020-05-05 
Routledge

Edited by David Sanderson, Laura Bruce

This book presents practical approaches for tackling the threats from climate change and disasters to urban growth in Pacific island countries and Asian nations. With chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners, Urbanisation at Risk presents research and case studies from island…

Paperback – 2020-05-01 
Routledge

By Robert Cervero

Originally published in 1989, America’s Suburban Centers looks at how America’s suburban workplaces are being increasingly designed for automobiles rather than people. The emergence of sprawling office complexes devoid of housing, shops and other facilities is giving rise to regional congestion…

Paperback – 2020-04-30 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Thomas L. Burton, Gordon E. Cherry

Originally published in 1970 Social Planning Techniques for Town Planners introduces social research methods for town planners. The book places an emphasis on social research within the planning process, and addresses the problem faced by the research worker at successive stages of a research…

Paperback – 2020-04-30 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

Edited by David Donnison, Alan Middleton

Originally published in 1987, Regenerating the Inner City looks at the changes to Glasgow’s East End and how industrial closures and slum clearance projects have caused people to leave. This is reflected across the western world, and causes severe blows to cities where these industries are located.…

Paperback – 2020-04-30 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Alexandra Mallett

This book explores the perplexing question of how to increase sustainable energy technology use in the developing world, and specifically focuses on two mega-cities within Latin America. Renewable Energy Uptake in Urban Latin America examines the market and uptake of two sustainable energy…

Hardback – 2020-04-30 
Routledge
Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies

Edited by Lisa Berglund, Siobhan Gregory

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially and economically marginalized groups are appropriated or erased by the introduction luxury real estate and retail branding. The book explores the…

Hardback – 2020-04-20 
Routledge