Settlement, urban and rural geography

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies.

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies.

Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people's elusive notions of place and perception, time and change.

Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people's elusive notions of place and perception, time and change.

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world.

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world.

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States.

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States.

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This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm.

This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm.

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities.

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

Through an international range of research, this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor and consumption, but also in regards to cultural and spatial contingencies.

Through an international range of research, this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor and consumption, but also in regards to cultural and spatial contingencies.

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture.

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture.

Cities expand, upwards and outwards, and their physical structure can last a very long time, not just tens but hundreds of years.

Cities expand, upwards and outwards, and their physical structure can last a very long time, not just tens but hundreds of years.

Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specific, tangible materialities of particular times and places.

Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specific, tangible materialities of particular times and places.

Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces.

Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces.

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America's cities that never sleep.

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America's cities that never sleep.

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions.

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions.

Invoking the notion of 'cosmopolitics' from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of common worlds of cohabitation.

Invoking the notion of 'cosmopolitics' from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of common worlds of cohabitation.

Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning children's relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, and the modes of living within them.

Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning children's relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, and the modes of living within them.

Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development in the contemporary era.

After decades "e;in the shadows"e;, urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate.

After decades "e;in the shadows"e;, urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate.

In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America's twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development.

In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America's twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development.

Urban segregation is one of the main challenges facing urban development around the globe.

Urban segregation is one of the main challenges facing urban development around the globe.

Urban shrinkage is rising to the top of the political agenda in Europe as more cities are shrinking in the prolonged economic downturn we encounter.

Urban shrinkage is rising to the top of the political agenda in Europe as more cities are shrinking in the prolonged economic downturn we encounter.

The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself.

The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself.

Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation.

Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation.

In exploring the connections between religion, violence and cities, the book probes the extent to which religion moderates or exacerbates violence in an increasingly urbanised world.

In exploring the connections between religion, violence and cities, the book probes the extent to which religion moderates or exacerbates violence in an increasingly urbanised world.

India's cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion.