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.
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 Williams, Vladimír 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 ...
Exploring Post-Development: Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives
1st Edition
By Aram Ziai
November 08, 2013
Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory and practice drawing on empirical ...
Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor
November 08, 2013
This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal...
Imagined Regional Communities: Integration and Sovereignty in the Global South
1st Edition
By James D. Sidaway
October 23, 2013
Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it develops detailed case studies based on archives, interviews and critical readings of existing texts. These ...
Whose Urban Renaissance?: An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Libby Porter, Kate Shaw
September 03, 2013
The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully attracting investment and middle-class populations to their inner areas. Regeneration - or ...
Globalization, Modernity and the City
1st Edition
By John Rennie Short
April 11, 2013
We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention. Cities are an integral part of the network of globalization and important sites of ...
Cities and Low Carbon Transitions
1st Edition
Edited
By Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin
November 20, 2012
Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale ...