Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
About the Book Series
The series features innovative and original research on cities in the Global South, aiming to explore urban settings through the lens of international development. The series particularly promotes comparative and interdisciplinary research targeted at a global readership.
In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws on a broad toolkit taken from across social sciences and built environment studies, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.
The series welcomes submissions from established and junior authors on cutting-edge and high-level research on key topics that feature in global news and public debate. To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
Urban Life in Delhi Slums: Stories of Community Solutions and Resilience
1st Edition
By Pauline Dixon, Steve Humble
September 02, 2025
This book investigates urban life in the slums of Delhi, demonstrating how individuals and communities self-organise to solve problems that arise in their neighbourhoods. Around one-quarter of the world’s urban population live in informal, slum and squatter settlements, representing a significant ...
Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace
1st Edition
By Lutfun Nahar Lata
August 26, 2024
This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Using data collected through extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, the book contributes to the emerging scholarship of resilient cities, gendered space, ...
Sustainable Urban Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Risk and Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Llewellyn Leonard, Regis Musavengane, Pius Siakwah
May 31, 2023
This book investigates urban tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the challenges and risks involved, but also showcasing the potential benefits. Whilst much is written on Africa’s rural environments, little has been written about the tourism potential of the vast natural, ...
Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa: Knowledge Co-production from the South
1st Edition
Edited
By Ntombini Marrengane, Sylvia Croese
August 01, 2022
This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population. Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. ...
Social Theories of Urban Violence in the Global South: Towards Safe and Inclusive Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Erin Salahub, Markus Gottsbacher, John de Boer
October 17, 2019
While cities often act as the engines of economic growth for developing countries, they are also frequently the site of growing violence, poverty, and inequality. Yet, social theory, largely developed and tested in the Global North, is often inadequate in tackling the realities of life in the ...
The Politics of Slums in the Global South: Urban Informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru
1st Edition
Edited
By Véronique Dupont, David Jordhus-Lier, Catherine Sutherland, Einar Braathen
April 11, 2017
Seeing urban politics from the perspective of those who reside in slums offers an important dimension to the study of urbanism in the global South. Many people living in sub-standard conditions do not have their rights as urban citizens recognised and realise that they cannot rely on formal ...