Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade and the Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Brown
December 19, 2018
Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the global south are engaged in spatial...
Green Belts: Past; present; future?
1st Edition
By John Sturzaker, Ian Mell
August 06, 2018
Most of us have heard of green belts – but how much do we really know about them? This book tries to separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to green belts by looking both backwards and forwards. They were introduced in the mid-twentieth century to try and stop cities merging together as ...
Spiritualizing the City: Agency and Resilience of the Urban and Urbanesque Habitat
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Hegner, Peter Jan Margry
August 06, 2018
Urban spaces have always functioned as cradles and laboratories for religious movements and spiritualities. The urban forms a central and nourishing agent for the creation of new religious expressions, and continually negotiates new ways of being spiritual and establishing spiritual ideas and ...
Shrinking Cities: Understanding urban decline in the United States
1st Edition
By Russell Weaver, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Jason Knight, Amy E. Frazier
May 02, 2018
Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and numerous processes that contribute to these patterns with broader policy frameworks that have been ...
Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots
1st Edition
By Erualdo R. Gonzalez
April 11, 2018
American cities are increasingly turning to revitalization strategies that embrace the ideas of new urbanism and the so-called creative class in an attempt to boost economic growth and prosperity to downtown areas. These efforts stir controversy over residential and commercial gentrification of ...
Markets, Places, Cities
1st Edition
By Kirsten Seale
February 12, 2018
Using a transnational analytical framework, this book provides a comprehensive overview of formal and informal markets and place in globalised cities. It examines how urban markets are situated within social, cultural and media discourses, and within material and symbolic economies. The book ...
Technologies for Sustainable Urban Design and Bioregionalist Regeneration
1st Edition
By Dora Francese
February 05, 2018
This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration. Part I provides theoretical and methodological insights into technological approaches that offer optimum respect to existing cultural and natural environments, while offering minimum impact and carbon footprint. ...
Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier Coutard, Jonathan Rutherford
January 24, 2018
Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes. In this global era, we live in a world of rising knowledge economies, digital technologies, and awareness of environmental issues. The so-called "modern infrastructural ideal" of spatially and socially ubiquitous centrally-governed ...