Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Imagining Urban Complexity: A Humanities Approach in Tropes, Media, and Genres
1st Edition
By Frans-Willem Korsten, Anthony T. Albright
July 30, 2024
Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between the humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of ...
Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities: Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration
1st Edition
By Marichela Sepe
May 27, 2024
In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by ...
The Political Economy of Land: Rent, Financialization and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Mika Hyötyläinen, Robert Beauregard
May 27, 2024
Recent years have seen a gathering interest in the importance of real estate development to the growth and development of cities. This has included theoretical work on such topics as land rent and property rights as well as empirical studies on property investments, assetization, securitization, ...
Marketplaces: Movements, Representations and Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Ceren Sezer, Rianne van Melik
January 29, 2024
This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas. There is a renewed interest in research and policy arenas in marketplaces as the core of cities’ spatial and economic development and sociocultural life,...
Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South
1st Edition
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By Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Erwin Nugraha, Isolde de Villiers
January 29, 2024
Overlooked Cities reflects and impacts the changing landscape of urban studies and geography from the perspective of smaller and more regional cities in the urban South. It critically examines the ways in which cities are uniquely positioned within different urban and knowledge hierarchies. The ...
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics
1st Edition
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By Laura Trafí-Prats, Aurelio Castro-Varela
January 29, 2024
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the Cities maps ontological, aesthetic and ethic differences between humanist and posthumanist arts-based research, while providing insight on methodological orientations to develop arts-based research with frameworks based on process-philosophies. It is...
Cities Without Capitalism
1st Edition
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By Hossein Sadri, Senem Zeybekoglu
May 31, 2023
This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary insights from leading academics, activists and researchers to envision progressive, anti-capitalist changes for the future ...
Eco and Low-Carbon New Towns in China: Sustainability Transformation in the Making
1st Edition
By Yang Fu, Xiaoling Zhang
May 31, 2023
This book examines the sustainability transition theory in the context of urbanization in China, tracing the development of eco and low-carbon cities. It examines how ideas on building eco-cities and low-carbon cities travel from nation to nation, how they are adopted in the Chinese administrative ...
Hegemony, Security Infrastructures and the Politics of Crime: Everyday Experiences in South Africa
1st Edition
By Gideon van Riet
May 31, 2023
This book examines the politics of crime and the response to it in Potchefstroom, a small settler colonial city in South Africa. It draws on the city’s everyday practices and experiences to offer local bottom-up insights into security beyond the state. The book provides a comprehensive ...
Public Participation Process in Urban Planning: Evaluation Approaches of Fairness and Effectiveness Criteria of Planning Advisory Committees
1st Edition
By Kamal Uddin, Bhuiyan Monwar Alam
May 31, 2023
This book critically examines the public participation processes in urban planning and development by evaluating the operations of Planning Advisory Committees (PACs) through two meta-criteria of fairness and effectiveness. Traditional models of public participation in planning have long been ...
The Walkable City: Dimensions of Walking and Overlapping Walks of Life
1st Edition
By Jennie Middleton
May 31, 2023
This book explores everyday walking in contemporary urban life. It brings together important theoretical and empirical insights to understand how the ‘walkability’ of urban spaces can be imagined, planned for, and experienced. The book focuses on the everyday experiences of the urban walker, the ...
The Future of the City Centre: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Bob Giddings, Robert J Rogerson
December 30, 2022
The Future of the City Centre: Global Perspectives debates future directions. It looks beyond the post-industrial, post-commercial, and post-retail city centres to examine differing visions of the future form and function of the urban core. This theme and the related sub-topics will assist the ...