Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
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
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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...
Lahore in the 21st Century: The Functioning and Development of a Megacity in the Global South
1st Edition
By Mohammad A. Qadeer
October 09, 2024
Analysing the evolution of Lahore’s social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and the urban environment. It uncovers the internal dynamics and functional order ...
The Anatomy of Inclusive Cities: Insight into Migrants in Selected Capital Cities of Southern Africa
1st Edition
By Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu, Lovemore Chipungu
October 09, 2024
Creating cities inclusive of immigrants in Southern Africa is both a balancing act and a protracted process that requires positive attitudes informed by accommodative institutional frameworks. This book revolves around two key contemporary issues that cities around the globe are trying to achieve –...
Writing the City Square: On the History and the Histories of City Squares
1st Edition
By Martin Zerlang
October 09, 2024
The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora, the forum, the piazza, the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history, and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square ...
Urban Ethics as Research Agenda: Outlooks and Tensions on Multidisciplinary Debates
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By Raúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen, Gordon M. Winder
October 04, 2024
This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects ...
Political Economy of Housing in Chile
1st Edition
By Francisco Vergara-Perucich, Carlos Aguirre-Nuñez, Felipe Encinas, Rodrigo Hidalgo-Dattwyler, Ricardo Truffello, Felipe Ladrón de Guevara
August 26, 2024
Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so by drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market. This book provides insights on the articulation between real estate development, ...