Urban Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban

   Edited by Linda Peake, Martina Rieker

   In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Tourism Policy and Planning

   Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

   By David L. Edgell Sr, Jason Swanson

   The wellspring to the future global growth in tourism is a commitment toward good policy and strategic planning. Governments, the private sector, international organizations, academic institutions, and not-for-profit agencies must be the leaders in developing sustainable tourism policies that...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Cities and Nature

   2nd Edition

   By Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Racial Exclusionism and the City

   The Urban Support of the National Front

   By Christopher T. Husbands

   First published in 1983, this book reports on the results of a survey in thirteen areas of England where the National Front (NF) had previously gained significant levels of electoral support and examines the social and political histories of these areas to reveal not only who and was voting for the...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Urban Regeneration in the UK

   2nd Edition

   By Andrew Tallon

   Striking transformations are taking place in the urban landscape. The regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst governments and populations since the global economic downturn. This textbook provides an accessible and critical...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
6. Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts

   Edited by Kathleen Gallagher, Jonothan Neelands

   Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibilities. At the heart of this text lies the question of how theatre can illuminate the urban and how theatre is illuminated by the urban. The city, like...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
7. Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities

   Edited by Anne Lorentzen, Bas van Heur

   Series: Regions and Cities

   The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics...

   Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
8. Urban Decline (Routledge Revivals)

   By David Clark

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. When this book was first published in 1989, however, a massive process of counter-urbanization was underway, which saw the loss of population and jobs...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

   By Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Globalization, Modernity and the City

    By John Rennie Short

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention. Cities are an integral part of the network of globalization and important sites of...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge