Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

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11. Cities and Nature

    By Lisa Benton-Short, Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short, John Rennie Short

    Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

    Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. The city has been treated in geographical writings as only a social phenomena, and at the same time, environmental scientists have tended to ignore the urban....

    Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge
12. Cities and Cultures

    By Malcolm Miles

    Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

    Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts,...

    Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge
13. Cities and Consumption

    By Mark Jayne

    Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities? Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the...

    Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge