Human Geography

In an era of escalating conflict-induced and climate-induced migration and cross-border interaction, transnational-competence (TC) preparation for ...

This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of place. It inve...

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation be...

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have wi...

Building information modelling (BIM) uses a combination of technologies and resources to capture, manage, analyse, and display a digital representa...

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and w...

The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the im...

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contempor...

Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopol...

Language constitutes a very sensitive nexus between the concepts of territory and community. Though a fundamental issue in contemporary societies, ...

The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive ...

Project Design for Geomatics Engineers and Surveyors, Second Edition, continues to focus on the key components and aspects of project design for ge...

This title was first published in 2000. Linking politics with culture and society, this collection provides an overview of the Scottish Parliament ...

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global...

This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to...

Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden subur...

This title was first published in 2002: Retailers who ignore the demographics of their customers do so at their peril. Examining the role of age an...

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environme...

Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific CommunicationRespondin...

Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes ...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. In 2014, the European Commission ...

Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation? Against simplistic visions that the world is becoming one, Heterotopia and Globalisation in th...

The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this han...

The 'visual' has long played a crucial role in forming experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. Images convey meanin...

While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly re...

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôt...

Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the nineteenth an...

Branding is a profoundly geographical type of commodification process. Many things become commodities that are compared and valuated on markets aro...

Passing is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to pass away or pass on. This open-ended saying has at its heart a no...

Chinas unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a t...

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent...

Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies, and history, this is the first volume to study water a...

This collection is inspired by the transdisciplinary possibilities posed by the connections between space and justice. Drawing on a variety of theo...

The goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive, design, and produce maps in a l...

This book contains a collection of articles that include both case studies and theoretical insights applicable to the tourism development challenge...

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts o...

The overarching aim of Finance, Innovation and Geography: Harnessing Knowledge Dynamics in German Biotechnology is to explore linkages between geog...

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or exclu...

Millennials have captured our imaginaries in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that this generation of young adults lives in downtown neighb...

Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biologic...

Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original...

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion...

Habitus is a concept developed by the late French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, as a 'sense of one's place...a sense of the other's place'. It rela...

Policy and planning are particularly important in tourism due to their multi-faceted nature and the complexity of inter-organisational relations an...

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into...