Urban Geography Books

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11. Beyond Smart Cities

    How Cities Network, Learn and Innovate

    By Tim Campbell

    The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities – that is to create the conditions of...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
12. Community Livability

    Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities

    Edited by Fritz Wagner, Roger Caves

    What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nuture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to...

    Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
13. Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods

    The Rise of Neighborhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption

    Edited by Volkan Aytar, Jan Rath

    Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

    While ethnic neighborhoods are usually associated with poverty, crime and social problems, they have also emerged as places of leisure and consumption, providing opportunities for numerous entrepreneurs and employees. Local and national governments and other regulatory actors, as well as the media,...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
14. Urban Geography

    By Tim Hall, Heather Barrett

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series

    This extensively revised and updated fourth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and '...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
15. Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism

    New Directions

    Edited by Steven Vertovec

    The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
16. Agriculture in Urban Planning

    Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

    Edited by Mark Redwood

    This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
17. Rome

    A New Planning Strategy

    By Franco Archibugi

    Rome: A New Planning Strategy looks at the problems of a city over the last century and suggests a totally new planning strategy. The book examines the stages that have marked the increase of population and change in land use and analyses the masterplans used to try and control these evolving...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
18. Private Cities

    Global and Local Perspectives

    By Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life. Contributed to, and edited by, an...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
19. Staging the New Berlin

    Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

    By Claire Colomb

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘...

    Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
20. Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries

    By Thomas Hall

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    **This book was originally printed as a hardback in 1991. The paperback released in 2011 is a reprint of the original**Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Emphasis is on the period from the mid-nineteenth...

    Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge