Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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 "...
Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South: Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru
1st Edition
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By Christian Rosen, Nina Gribat
April 04, 2025
This book presents the concept of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery. Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex...
The Monumental
1st Edition
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By Argyro Loukaki
March 14, 2025
The Monumental is an interdisciplinary collection of original, cutting-edge contributions by international researchers pursuing the epistemology and ontology of monuments over time and geography. The contributors are specialists in geography, architectural theory and history, prehistoric, Greek and...
Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell, Ana Vilenica
March 05, 2025
This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide. Through the application of new empirical material and novel theoretical syntheses that exceed conceptual binaries (East-West,...
Heritage, Crafting Communities and Urban Transformation: Durga Puja Festival, Kolkata
1st Edition
By Debapriya Chakrabarti
January 30, 2025
This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms. It contributes to ongoing debates in the social sciences about infrastructure rights and citizenship, and it throws insight on human–infrastructure interactions in the ...
Equity in the Urban Built Environment
1st Edition
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By Bradley Bereitschaft
December 30, 2024
This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities. Achieving more equitable and prosperous urban places requires a critical examination of the ...
Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action
1st Edition
By Leah Modigliani
December 18, 2024
Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists’ responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres. This book is the first to analyse artworks as forms of ...
Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures
1st Edition
By Liora Bigon, Edna Langenthal
November 28, 2024
Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy, and ethics. The book combines...