Our Major Works publishing programme includes a range of geography and urban studies related series. By browsing through this catalogue you can uncover titles from our series in:

Critical Concepts in the Built Environment
Critical Concepts in Construction
Critical Concepts in Development Studies
Critical Concepts in the Environment
Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

Within these series, there are a number of notable new titles publishing over the upcoming year, which we think are well worth a look in 2013:

• Sustainable Buildings
  
• Media and the Environment
  
• Sustainable Development
  
• Urban Theory
  
• Urban Design.

The catalogue also includes the details of our eBook collections; eFocus on Urban Studies and eCollection on Geography. The eFocus collection contains more than a hundred titles, from imprints such as Routledge and Earthscan, with plenty more to be added in 2013. Our Geography eCollection, containing 600+ eBooks, is ideal for faculties wishing to offer their students the full range of Routledge content, in areas including Environmental Studies and Human Geography.

The second edition has been extensively revised and updated to incorporate advances in literature, policy and case study examples, as well as giving greater discussion to the New Labour period of urban policy, and the urban agenda and regeneration policies of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government elected in 2010.

The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. This is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interested in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.

Our full range of titles is available to browse at www.routledge.com/geography.

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This Companion provides up-to-date critical reviews of state of the art perspectives across this multifaceted field, embracing disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, cultural studies, geography, landscape planning, landscape architecture, countryside management, forestry, heritage studies, ecology, and fine art. It serves as an invaluable point of reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students alike, engaging in the field of landscape studies.
 

"This significantly revised edition of Africa South of the Sahara offers a critical interpretation of received ideas. Stock situates contemporary human development concerns about sub-Saharan Africa in their historical, cultural, and regional perspectives. A new chapter on the history of development thinking guides the book’s synthetic discussions of rural and urban economies and livelihoods, population and resources, and health. The prose is lucid and the arguments compelling. A highly accessible introductory text for courses on regional geography, development studies, and global studies." Thomas J. Bassett, PhD, Department of Geography and GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, USA

"All serious analysts of modern food systems would do well to read this book. It is a magisterial volume, casting a critical yet sympathetic eye over the West's struggle to decide what a better food future might look like. Drawing on decades of research and experience, the authors generously review and make sense of hundreds of studies. This is academic and public musing of the very highest quality - exactly the kind of thinking which today's pressurised academics do too little of, in the rush to win grants, write papers, and score points. The authors not only give us one of the best books on food I have read, but provide a timely policy intervention. How good are alternative food projects, experiments and political debates? Are they really altering mass food reality? What theories and political frameworks make sense in a world where stark inequalities of land, capital, labour and consumption fit so uneasily with environmental fragility, health distortions, and fissured social existence? Never dismissive, they help us all refine one of the most important tasks facing the world in the 21st century: what is a good food system? How can we get it? What are the lessons of experimentation thus far? For certain, it's not what we have now." - Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University London, UK

This 4th edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development with particular reference to developing countries.