Human Geography

Are walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachronistic in modern and post-modern times? Or will they persist, shapi...

Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions...

Now available in paperback, this reference book has everything we need to make sense of today''s world. 366 digitally modified maps - known as cart...

Illicit and illegal markets play a substantial role in the global economy, yet have received little attention from economic geographers. This incis...

Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and cre...

In the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste, the disturbing events of the twenty-four-year-long Indonesian occupation ...

Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and cru...

The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries inc...

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists. It explores inequalities and injust...

Following the journey of eight bargain store objects, Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind societys simplest and cheapest commodities. Ins...

In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 ter...

For more than one thousand years the monastic republic of Mount Athos has been one of the most chronicled and yet least accessible places in the Me...

Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining arti...

This is an invaluable resource for design and planning students to understand how to create resilient, regenerative, and beautiful places. From Hen...

Hell''s Kitchen is among Manhattan''s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side''s middle- an...

With the crisis of the global capitalist economy, the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theor...

Wade Davis has been called ''a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life''s diversity''. In Shadows in t...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the worlds largest body of water, and in matters e...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsi...

Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar latitudes? Why can only Japanese peoples dige...

What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just betw...

Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into the history of the urban. Moving beyond both canonical and empirical portrayals, ...

Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into the history of the urban. Moving beyond both canonical and empirical portrayals, ...

Maps take place in time as well as representing space. The Google map on your smartphone appears to fix the world, serving as a practical spatial t...

The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender series serves undergraduate college students who have had little or no exposure to Gender Studies...

Global Cities and Urban Theory provides an innovative set of approaches to understanding some of the worlds major cities, working with concepts suc...

To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth centurys most distinctive and influential scholars. The ...