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Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary globalisation processes. This edited...
To Be Published June 7th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through...
To Be Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource extraction. Yet on streets everywhere,...
To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life
The World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth. The book provides...
To Be Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: RLE: Retailing and Distribution
Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution brings together as one set, or individual volumes, groundbreaking retail studies from the field of human geography. Encompassing town and retail planning, marketing geography, the development of shopping centres and the rise of consumerism...
To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions
Studies of the organisation and location of retailing activity have played a central role in the emergence of urban geography as a major area of academic study. Moreover, retailing is increasingly the focus of interdisciplinary research, with economists, sociologists, psychologists and marketing...
To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions
Retailer’s buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration. As vertical relationships in marketing channels have strengthened their influence over the shape of the industry, the producer-distributor relationship has become more central to an...
To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions
This textbook provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and fully integrated treatment of retailing as a) and industry, b) a force shaping social attitudes and contemporary culture, and c) a force for change in modern townscapes. Unlike other texts which focus on specific topics, this book provides a...
To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions
The shopping centre has become an established feature of urban structure over the past thirty years. Development of centres has been rapid and little attempt has been made to consider the development process and the problems caused by it. There is a growing awareness that centres are not always...
To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions
The development of retail selling – from the little shops of England at the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the Edwardian zenith of the great department stores – is a part of social history that has been little explored; and histories of fashion have been confined to what clothes were worn, and when...
To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
