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1. Urban Theory Beyond the West

   A World of Cities

   Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne

   Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
2. Spaces of Vernacular Creativity

   Rethinking the Cultural Economy

   Edited by Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington, Norma Rantisi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century. Concepts such as the creative class, the creative industries and bohemian cultural clusters have come to...

   Published October 19th 2009 by Routledge
3. Tourists at the Taj

   Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site

   By Tim Edensor

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol of the colonial past. For others it is a symbolic centre of Islamic power. For many of the thousands of tourists that visit it...

   Published July 8th 1998 by Routledge