Routledge Studies in Human Geography
About the Book Series
The series provides a forum for innovative, vibrant, and critical debate within Human Geography. Titles reflect the wealth of research which is taking place in this diverse and ever-expanding field.
Contributions are drawn from the main sub-disciplines and from innovative areas of work which have no particular sub-disciplinary allegiances.
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl Grodach, Daniel Silver
May 21, 2015
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity....
Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
1st Edition
By Monica Montserrat Degen
April 23, 2015
As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus. Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual frameworks to address their impact upon...
Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness: Theory, Policy, Practice
1st Edition
By Gillian Bristow
March 31, 2015
Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness. However, there is considerable confusion around what exactly regional competitiveness means, how it might be achieved, whether and how it can be measured, ...
Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Jiang Xu, Anthony Yeh
March 31, 2015
Neoliberalism’s market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political ...
Rural-Urban Dynamics: Livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers
1st Edition
Edited
By Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold
March 31, 2015
It has increasingly been recognised that rural and urban areas are inextricably interlinked. This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia...
Learning Transnational Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Åge Mariussen, Seija Virkkala
February 27, 2015
Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development. This has led to a feeling that transnational learning strategies are more and more desirable. In practice, the field of transnational learning has been dominated by various ...
Spatial-Economic Metamorphosis of a Nebula City: Schiphol and the Schiphol Region During the 20th Century
1st Edition
By Abderrahman El Makhloufi
February 27, 2015
This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It study the origins and course of urban development process by identifying and explaining ...
International Migration and Knowledge
1st Edition
By Allan M. Williams, Vladimir Baláž
August 12, 2014
Two unconnected but important recent academic and policy debates have focussed on the idea of the knowledge-based economy and the economic consequences of increasing international migration. This book challenges pre-conceived views on the debates and argues the need to understand that all migrants ...
Time-Space Compression: Historical Geographies
1st Edition
By Barney Warf
August 12, 2014
If geography is the study of how human beings are stretched over the earth’s surface, a vital part of that process is how we know and feel about space and time. Although space and time appear as "natural" and outside of society, they are in fact social constructions; every society develops ...
China on the Move: Migration, the State, and the Household
1st Edition
By C. Cindy Fan
May 16, 2014
China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to ...
Family Farms: Survival and Prospect: A World-Wide Analysis
1st Edition
By Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons
May 16, 2014
Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production organization, destined to give way to agribusiness. Family Farms refutes these notions and analyses ...
The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Barney Warf, Santa Arias
April 28, 2014
Across the disciplines, the study of space has undergone a profound and sustained transformation. Space, place, mapping, and geographical imaginations have become commonplace topics in a variety of analytical fields in part because globalization has accentuated the significance of location. While ...