Urban Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Future of Local Economic Development

   Edited by Ines Newman

   This book looks at the future role of local economic development. Once New Labour came to power in 1997, they sought a third way between the new right agenda of Thatcherism with its attempts to reduce the role of the local state and foster a free market and the left’s attempts to take more...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Factor Five

   Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity

   By Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker, Charlie Hargroves, Michael H. Smith, Cheryl Desha, Peter Stasinopoulos

   When first published in 1997, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizs?cker, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, transformed how economists, policy makers, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders thought about innovation...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Economic Justice, Labor and Community Practice

   Edited by Louise Simmons, Scott Harding

   Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society

   Edited by Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Loren Lutzenhiser

   Series: Building Research and Information

   Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

   By Fengshu Liu

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. African City Textualities

   Edited by Ranka Primorac

   The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural productions which participate in...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
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