Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City
About the Book Series
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The Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City Series offers a forum for cutting-edge and original research that explores different aspects of the city. Titles within this series critically engage with, question, and challenge, contemporary theory and concepts to extent current debates and pave the way for new critical perspectives on the city. This series explores a range of social, political, economic, cultural and spatial concepts, offering innovative and vibrant contributions, international perspectives, and interdisciplinary engagements with the city from across the social sciences and humanities. It will appeal to upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars, working in urban studies, planning, geography, geohumanities, sociology, politics, the arts, cultural studies, popular culture, philosophy and literature.
Manhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification
1st Edition
By Ana Morcillo Pallarés
August 26, 2024
Manhattan’s Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York’s public space over the past few decades. By exploring a mix of urban mechanisms, supportive frameworks, legal systems, and planning guidelines for the ...
Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization
1st Edition
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By Enikő Vincze, Ioana Florea, Manuel B. Aalbers
July 19, 2024
This book examines the progression of real estate development within the deindustrialization-financialization nexus. It explores the roles it has in semi-peripheral contexts such as Romania, where it overlaps with the process of the transformation of state socialism into neoliberal capitalism, ...
Urban Narratives and the Spaces of Rome: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City
1st Edition
By Gregory Smith
May 31, 2023
This book foregrounds the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini to study the Roman periphery and examine the relevance of Pasolini’s vision in the construction of subaltern identity and experience. It analyses the contemporary Italian society to understand the problem of social exclusion of marginal ...
Urban Recovery: Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction
1st Edition
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By Howayda Al-Harithy
May 31, 2023
This book calls for re-conceptualising urban recovery by exploring the intersection of reconstruction and displacement in volatile contexts in the Global South. It explores the spatial, social, artistic, and political conditions that promote urban recovery. Reconstruction and displacement have ...
Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
1st Edition
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By Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn, Maria Persdotter, Emil Pull
April 29, 2022
This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a prime act of housing injustice – a central issue in urban injustices. With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, ...
Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City
1st Edition
By Cecilie Sachs Olsen
August 30, 2020
What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism? This book discusses the potential of artistic practices to question the nature of city environments and the diverse productions of space, moving beyond the reduction of ‘the urban’ as a set of existing and static structures. ...
Gender and Gentrification
1st Edition
By Winifred Curran
July 12, 2019
This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city. It focuses in particular on the impact of gentrification on women and racialized men, ...
Gentrification as a Global Strategy: Neil Smith and Beyond
1st Edition
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By Abel Albet, Núria Benach
February 14, 2019
This book pays homage to Neil Smith’s ideas, offering a critical approach and rich collection of insights that draw on Smith’s work for inspiration and debate. With interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading experts, the book demonstrates the impact of Smith’s ideas on ...
Art and the City: Worlding the Discussion through a Critical Artscape
1st Edition
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By Jason Luger, Julie Ren
August 14, 2018
Artistic practices have long been disturbing the relationships between art and space. They have challenged the boundaries of performer/spectator, of public/private, introduced intervention and installation, ephemerality and performance, and constantly sought out new modes of distressing ...
Urban Subversion and the Creative City
1st Edition
By Oli Mould
September 14, 2016
Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409 This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ‘C’, and argues for a creative city with a small ‘c’ via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion. The ...