Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Liquid Port Cities of the Twenty-first Century: A Pan-Mediterranean Perspective on Cultural Confluences and Contemporary Challenges
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By Wendy Jo Mifsud, Enrico Tommarchi
May 28, 2026
This book provides an up to date overview of Mediterranean port cities and their challenges in a ‘liquid’ world. It interrogates emerging cultural narratives of these places, new morphological approaches to understand their transformation, and the global pressures and local dynamics that shape them...
Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Transformation of 19th Century Newcastle
1st Edition
By Peter J. Taylor, Michael Barke, Zachary P. Neal
May 22, 2026
Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle’s becoming of a metropolitan city-region in the 19th century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan status through disruptions of incessant economic advances being ameliorated by myriad social organizations ...
Ecological Marketing in EU Cities
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By Magdalena Tomala
March 27, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of eco- marketing in large cities of the European Union. It explains how environmental marketing becomes a strategic tool for building sustainable development in cities. This book explores theoretical foundations such as green marketing and sustainable ...
Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Mania: Urban Change in the Twenty-First Century
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By David Wilson, Elvin Wyly
March 18, 2026
This innovative book applies the metaphor of Dracula to understand a highly controversial reality that marks so many cities today: how the rage of smart city development and growth proceeds, is organized, and produces benefits for some and afflicts others. It also explores how social science ...
The Politics of Land and Value: Case Studies from Across the Globe
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By Mi Shih, Kathe Newman
February 27, 2026
This book investigates the treatment of land as a source of money in global urban processes. Probing land development at moments of value creation, capture, negotiation, contestation, and transformation, it sheds light on how and why value practices matter in transforming the politics of the status...
Urban Sustainability in the Making: Aalborg’s Transformation Projects, Processes and Reflexive Practices
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By Enza Lissandrello, Alessandra Badami
December 15, 2025
This book explores how urban sustainability is negotiated and enacted through planning practices, narratives, and institutional change. It does so through the case of Aalborg, to illustrate transitions that are shaped by urgency, legitimation and implementation. It offers a theoretically grounded ...
Mapping Legalities: Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work
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By Thomas Coggin, Roopa Madhav
November 28, 2025
This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment. It focuses on access to physical space, revealing the punitive ways in which law regulates space and informal work which relies on space. Across various cities worldwide, the chapters in ...
Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers
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By Mark Jayne, Wu Siying, Wu Chenhui
September 23, 2025
Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world. The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, ...
Aesthetics and the City
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By Joe Blakey, Amy Barron
July 25, 2025
Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed. This book celebrates ...
Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable
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By Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Iva Ashish Srivastava
May 30, 2025
With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage. Lack of planning can have severe social, cultural, economic and political repercussions in cities. Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable scrutinizes the paradigms of Urban ...
Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making
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By Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore
May 10, 2025
To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism, Queerburbia examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada’s three largest city-regions (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), investigating print media and census representations, ...
City Reconstruction: Urban Policy Innovation Towards Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region
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By Ali A. Alraouf, Odeh Al-Jayyousi, Kheir Al-Kodmany
April 11, 2025
Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this book discusses the complexities of rebuilding cities amid wars and conflicts, highlighting the importance of harnessing global knowledge. It explores innovative approaches to urban planning, emphasizing the transformative power of "...