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.
International Perspectives on Age-Friendly Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelly G. Fitzgerald, Francis G. Caro
February 12, 2018
This book brings together recent scholarly work concerned with efforts around the world to transform cities so that they are more age-friendly. Common to all of the initiatives is recognition of the importance of the community environment for the well-being of the rapidly growing numbers of older ...
Knowledge and the City: Concepts, Applications and Trends of Knowledge-Based Urban Development
1st Edition
By Francisco Javier Carrillo, Tan Yigitcanlar, Blanca García, Antti Lönnqvist
February 12, 2018
This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of ...
Releasing the Commons: Rethinking the futures of the commons
1st Edition
Edited
By Ash Amin, Philip Howell
February 12, 2018
This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital ...
The Production and Consumption of Music in the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian J. Hracs, Michael Seman, Tarek E. Virani
February 12, 2018
The economic geography of music is evolving as new digital technologies, organizational forms, market dynamics and consumer behavior continue to restructure the industry. This book is an international collection of case studies examining the spatial dynamics of today’s music industry. ...
Migration, Risk and Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Allan M. Williams, Vladimír Baláž
February 06, 2018
Migration is one of the driving forces of economic and social change in the modern world. It is both informed by risk and a generator of risk, whether for individuals, households, communities or societies. Although the relationship between migration and risk is widely acknowledged, it has long...
Geographies of Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth A. Mack, Haifeng Qian
February 05, 2018
This book addresses a gap in the present literature on the role that geography plays in the distribution of entrepreneurial activity. Emerging work on entrepreneurial ecosystems suggests it is important entrepreneurship studies move beyond the mere identification of factors that impact ...
Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Cidell, David Prytherch
February 05, 2018
The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy. Geographers have long provided key insights into transportation systems. But today, concerns for social justice and sustainability motivate new, critical approaches to mobilities. ...
Migration Borders Freedom
1st Edition
By Harald Bauder
January 24, 2018
International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can’t – or don’t want to – imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary ...
Cities, Regions and Flows
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Hall, Markus Hesse
June 16, 2017
Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to ...
Locating Right to the City in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Samara, Shenjing He, Guo Chen
May 31, 2017
Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely ...
Ecologies and Politics of Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian King, Kelley A. Crews
May 24, 2017
Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and ...
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter W. Daniels, K.C. Ho, Thomas A. Hutton
May 24, 2017
The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic ...