Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change
About the Book Series
Urban transformation affects various aspects of the physical, social, and economic spaces. This series contains monographs and edited collections that provide theoretically informed and interdisciplinary insights on the factors, patterns, processes and outcomes that facilitate or hinder urban development and transformation. Books within the series offer international and comparative perspectives from cities around the world, exploring how ‘new life’ may be brought to cities, and what the cities of future may look like.
Topics within the series may include: urban immigration and management, gender, sustainability and eco-cities, smart cities, technological developments and the impact on industry and on urban societies, cultural production and consumption in cities (including tourism, events and festivals), the marketing and branding of cities, and the role of various actors and policy makers in the planning and management of changing urban spaces.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal to the series please contact Faye Leerink, Commissioning Editor, [email protected].
The Non-Post-Socialist City: Urban Policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Łukasz Drozda
November 20, 2025
The Non-Post-Socialist City examines contemporary urban policies through case studies of six cities in four states across the CEE/FSU region. This book adopts a rarely used approach in the study of so-called post-socialist cities—combining several years of in-depth empirical research with a broad ...
Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good: Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Maja Grabkowska
August 26, 2024
This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The question of common good is fundamental to urban living; however, understanding of the term varies depending on local contexts and conditions, particularly complex in countries with ...
Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism
1st Edition
Edited
By Valentin Mihaylov, Mikhail Ilchenko
May 27, 2024
Featuring up-to-date and insightful analyses and comparative case studies from a plethora of countries, this timely book explores ‘ideal’ socialist cities and their transformation under new socio-economic and political conditions after the fall of communism. With contributions from leading ...
Mega Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis for An Epistemological Foresight
1st Edition
Edited
By Naomi C. Hanakata, Filippo Bignami, Niccolò Cuppini
January 29, 2024
This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally. It takes mega-events as an instance to analyse urban transformations and their effects on citizenship. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book presents innovative and ...
Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Waldemar Cudny, Josef Kunc
September 25, 2023
This book presents multidimensional socio-economic transformations taking place in the post-socialist cities located in selected countries of the Central European region. The analysis includes case studies from the Eastern part of Germany (Chemnitz, Leipzig), Poland (Łódź, Kielce, Katowice ...
Postsocialist Shrinking Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Chung-Tong Wu, Maria Gunko, Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz, Kai Zhou
September 25, 2023
This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical ...
The Interstitial Spaces of Urban Sprawl: Geographies of Santiago de Chile’s Zwischenstadt
1st Edition
By Cristian A. Silva
September 25, 2023
This book proposes the idea of interstitial space as a theoretical framework to describe and understand the implications of in-between lands in urban studies and their profound transformative effects in cities and their urban character.The analysis of the interstitial spaces is structured into four...
Place Event Marketing in the Asia Pacific Region: Branding and Promotion in Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Waldemar Cudny
May 31, 2023
This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of place event marketing in the Asia Pacific region. It examines procedures in the promotion and branding of places that use events to shape their identities. It considers how events are used in forming a branded image of a place and disseminate ...