Geography

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 July 24th 2011 by Routledge

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities

From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

Edited by Peter W. Daniels, K.C. Ho, Thomas A. Hutton

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...

Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

Cities, Regions and Flows

Edited by Peter Hall, Markus Hesse

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to...

Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge

The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy

Global Perspectives

Edited by Carl Grodach, Daniel Silver

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity....

Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge

Rio de Janeiro

Urban Life through the Eyes of the City

Edited by Beatriz Jaguaribe

Series: CRESC

Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to the understanding of Rio de Janeiro, one of the most contested urban terrains in the world. Offering a rich diversity of examples extracted from lived...

To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

Urban Spaces in Japan

Cultural and Social Perspectives

Edited by Christoph Brumann, Evelyn Schulz

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary...

Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge

Urban Transformation in East Asia

By Hyun Bang Shin

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book explores urban transformation in East Asia, focusing in particular on the rapid transformation of old and dilapidated neighbourhoods in East Asian cities. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork conducted in Seoul and Beijing, including case studies of redevelopment neighbourhoods and...

To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Edited by Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...

Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge

Rights of Passage

Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

By Nicholas Blomley

Series: Social Justice

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in...

Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge

Shrinking Cities

International Perspectives and Policy Implications

Edited by Karina Pallagst, Thorsten Wiechmann, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez

Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack...

To Be Published July 28th 2013 by Routledge

Cities, Citizens, and Technologies

Urban Life and Postmodernity

By Paula Geyh

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new...

Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge

Transforming Urban Waterfronts

Fixity and Flow

Edited by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert

Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of...

Published September 8th 2010 by Routledge

Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities

Edited by Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Malcolm Bowman, Philip Ward, Piet Dircke

Series: Earthscan Climate

This book presents climate adaptation and flood risk problems and solutions in coastal cities, including an independent investigation of adaptation paths and problems in Rotterdam, New York and Jakarta. The comparison draws out lessons that each city can learn from the others. While the main focus...

Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge

Spatial Regulation in New York City

From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance

By Themis Chronopoulos

Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and...

Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge

Chinatowns in a Transnational World

Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon

Edited by Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer

This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious...

Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Edited by Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...

Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge

Rights of Passage

Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

By Nicholas Blomley

Series: Social Justice

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in...

Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge

Shrinking Cities

International Perspectives and Policy Implications

Edited by Karina Pallagst, Thorsten Wiechmann, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez

Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack...

To Be Published July 28th 2013 by Routledge

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces

Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability

By Adriana de Souza e Silva, Jordan Frith

Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates – and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of...

Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge

Rights of Passage

Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

By Nicholas Blomley

Series: Social Justice

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in...

Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge

Transforming Urban Waterfronts

Fixity and Flow

Edited by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert

Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of...

Published September 8th 2010 by Routledge

Spatial Regulation in New York City

From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance

By Themis Chronopoulos

Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and...

Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge

Chinatowns in a Transnational World

Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon

Edited by Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer

This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious...

Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge

Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?

Community Development and Social Innovation

Edited by Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw, Flavia Martinelli, Sara Gonzalez

Series: Regions and Cities

For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking...

Published July 11th 2010 by Routledge

World Bank and Urban Development

From Projects to Policy

By Edward Ramsamy

Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

As one of the world’s most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Bank’s urban programs and their complex relationship to urban policy...

Published June 14th 2006 by Routledge

Urban Development in Post-Reform China

State, Market, and Space

By Fulong Wu, Jiang Xu, Anthony Gar-On Yeh

Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country’s economic development. Yet, radical marketization co-exists with the ever-presence of state control. Exploring the...

Published November 15th 2006 by Routledge

Cities in Globalization

Practices, Policies and Theories

Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox

Series: Questioning Cities

Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their...

Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge

Cities, Nationalism and Democratization

By Scott A. Bollens

Series: Questioning Cities

Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities. Bollens uses a wide-ranging set of over 100 interviews with local political and community leaders to investigate how popular urban policies can...

Published April 4th 2007 by Routledge

Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities

Edited by Christoph Lindner

Series: Questioning Cities

What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture – extending from art and architecture to film and digital media – responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Addressing such...

Published July 28th 2009 by Routledge

Private Cities

Global and Local Perspectives

By Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life. Contributed to, and edited by, an...

Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge

Sensing Cities

Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester

By Monica Montserrat Degen

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus. Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual frameworks to address their impact upon...

Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge

Whose Urban Renaissance?

An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies

Edited by Libby Porter, Kate Shaw

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully attracting investment and middle-class populations to their inner areas. Regeneration - or...

Published December 14th 2008 by Routledge

The Multiplex in India

A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure

By Adrian Athique, Douglas Hill

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times – both a symptom and a symbol of new social values. Indicative of a consistent push to create a ‘globalised’ consuming middle class and a new urban environment, multiplex theatres have thus...

Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge