Urban Communities

At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in cities. Today, half the world's population is urb...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflect...

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian citiesdeveloped and developing, large and smalland their urban development. Inve...

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the As...

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of prac...

This book discusses the role of digital technologies in the growth and development of cultural organizations and the creative sector. It includes c...

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic int...

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experimentsunique interdisciplinar...

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process? Author Doug Kent, an environmental specialist, b...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow offers an introduction to the tourism policy process and how policies link to the strat...

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials. It introduces algorithmic approaches for mo...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources ...

The Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages (the PAH, by its Spanish acronym) has left an important mark in the history of Spanish social movements...

This book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely...

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select proj...

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

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...

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning? and as part of this What are its key features as a st...

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

This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington...

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoo...

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

We live in a time of rising anti-immigrant fervour and attacks on multiculturalism. As Stuart Hall argued over twenty years ago, the capacity to li...

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...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

This book aims to provide insight into the soft side of real estate research and the interesting results and implications of the real estate resear...

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

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