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1. Contemporary Italian Politics

   By Simon Parker, Paolo Natale

   This book provides students with the most comprehensive and incisive introduction available to the intricacies of the Italian political system. Written in an accessible and student-friendly style, this up-to-date textbook features: an introduction to Italian political history from 1943 to the...

   To Be Published February 26th 2014 by Routledge
2. Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

   Encountering the City, 2nd Edition

   By Simon Parker

   Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another. From the foundations...

   To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Urban Theory

   Edited by Simon Parker

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) Extending over five volumes and bringing together more than one hundred published articles and other major works, Urban Theory is a new collection from Routledge. The five-volume set provides comprehensive coverage of the most...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Cities, Politics & Power

   By Simon Parker

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies. Increasingly, however, attention has turned to the function of the city not only as a centre...

   Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
5. Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

   Encountering the City

   By Simon Parker

   For the first time Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies, and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe to one another....

   Published November 5th 2003 by Routledge
6. The New Italian Republic

   From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi

   Edited by Stephen Gundle, Simon Parker

   The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy's new master and subsequently precipitated his rapid fall from power....

   Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge