Urban Studies Supplementary Reading
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The Restless City
A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present, 2nd Edition
The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a short, lively history of the world’s most exciting and diverse metropolis. It shows how New York’s perpetual struggles for power, wealth, and status exemplify the vigor, creativity, resilience, and influence of...
Published May 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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The Restless City Reader
A New York City Sourcebook
From Peter Stuyvesant to Mayor Bloomberg, New York City’s history is full of vibrant characters, riveting events, and fascinating controversies that reflect shifting economic, political, social, and cultural currents within New York’s long history. The Restless City Reader: A New York City...
Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
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Disrupted Cities
When Infrastructure Fails
Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in...
Published September 24th 2009 by Routledge
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The New Economy of the Inner City
Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis
Series: Routledge Studies in Economic Geography
Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and...
Published April 11th 2010 by Routledge
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Neo-Bohemia
Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City, 2nd Edition
Neo-Bohemia brings the study of bohemian culture down to the street level, while maintaining a commitment to understanding broader historical and economic urban contexts. Simultaneously readable and academic, this book anticipates key urban trends at the dawn of the twenty-first century,...
Published May 6th 2010 by Routledge
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Olympic Cities
City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2016, 2nd Edition
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
Providing a full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events, this substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Its coverage takes account of important new scholarship as well as adding reflections on the experience of...
Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Urban Theory Beyond the West
A World of Cities
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
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Searching for the Just City
Debates in Urban Theory and Practice
Series: Questioning Cities
Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and...
Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Planning Sustainable Transport
Transport choices must be transformed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change, but this can only be done if we understand how complex transport systems work. Straightforward choices are never made between one transport mode and another; door-to-door movements of both people and...
To Be Published June 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Sunburnt Cities
The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban Planning in the American Sunbelt
In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Central to that demand is the increasing urgency of addressing the issue of urban decline, and the...
Published January 17th 2011 by Routledge
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The Temporary City
Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planning and design strategies....
Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Series: Questioning Cities
This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the...
Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Sunburnt Cities
The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban Planning in the American Sunbelt
In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Central to that demand is the increasing urgency of addressing the issue of urban decline, and the...
Published January 17th 2011 by Routledge
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An Anatomy of Sprawl
Planning and Politics in Britain
Series: RTPI Library Series
Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the ‘Solent City’ stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl – muted, and slow to emerge – yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation...
Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Remaking Metropolis
Global Challenges of the Urban Landscape
Remaking Metropolis examines examples of both urban decay and destruction as well as urban rebirth. It shows why particular approaches were successful, or did not achieve their objectives. By bringing together innovative approaches to urban living from across the world, and by demonstrating how...
Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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The Exposed City
Mapping the Urban Invisibles
There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped? Nadia...
Published April 29th 2010 by Routledge
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Insurgent Public Space
Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities
Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012. In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can...
Published April 18th 2010 by Routledge
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The Good City
Reflections and Imaginations
Cities, Allan B. Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society’s...
Published March 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Cities for People, Not for Profit
Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and...
Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment
'Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment' demonstrates how urban design and planning impact on public health and sustainable development. Moughtin et al. explore the concept of what makes a physically and psychologically ‘healthy’ environment in the context of the paramount need for...
Published March 2nd 2009 by Routledge
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Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood
2nd Edition
This successful title, previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home' and now in its second edition, explores and explains the trends and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding urban areas.The...
Published August 27th 2009 by Routledge
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Fixing Broken Cities
The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies
Through the insightful lens of an experienced practitioner, this book describes the origin, execution, and impact of urban repopulation strategies—initiatives designed to attract residents, businesses, jobs, shoppers, and visitors to places that had undergone decades of decline and abandonment. The...
Published July 30th 2009 by Routledge
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Common Ground?
Readings and Reflections on Public Space
Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life
Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal...
Published August 5th 2009 by Routledge
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Ordinary Cities
Between Modernity and Development
Series: Questioning Cities
With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book...
Published December 7th 2005 by Routledge
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In the Nature of Cities
Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
Series: Questioning Cities
The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social...
Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
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City Publics
The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters
Series: Questioning Cities
Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than previously received. Concerned with...
Published June 21st 2006 by Routledge
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Life in the Megalopolis
Mexico City and Sao Paulo
Series: Questioning Cities
The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Is their fractured reality, their...
Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge
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Urban Utopias
The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements
Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society...
Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge