Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Inclusive Cities and Accessibility: Case Studies from eThekwini, South Africa
1st Edition
By Senzo Dlamini, Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu
February 01, 2027
Inclusive Cities and Accessibility: Case Studies from eThekwini, South Africa explores what it truly means to build cities that leave no one behind. Using eThekwini Municipality as a case study, this book examines how the design of cities, planning decisions, public policies, and social attitudes ...
Sustainability and the Winter Olympics Host Regions: Pledges, Shortcomings, and Future Trends
1st Edition
By Abdallah Jreij
January 28, 2027
This book examines the environmental sustainability record of Winter Olympics host regions, tracing the gap between ambitious pledges made at bid stage and the outcomes actually delivered. Focusing on Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, and Milano–Cortina 2026, it reveals the structural, political, and ...
Ecopolitics and the Making of Lisbon’s Green Infrastructure (1764-2020)
1st Edition
By Ana Duarte Rodrigues
November 02, 2026
This book reveals how the city’s politics, culture, and ecology shaped urban nature from 1764 to 2020. Through a longue durée history of Lisbon’s public gardens and green spaces, it offers new insights into green infrastructure, climate adaptation, and the making of the modern city. Drawing on ...
Participatory Governance in Urban Heritage Management: The Walled City of Ahmedabad, India
1st Edition
By Rajdeep Routh
October 27, 2026
This book examines who really gets to decide the fate of a UNESCO World Heritage City. Drawing on original fieldwork at Old Ahmedabad, India's first UNESCO World Heritage City, it investigates the quality of community participation in cultural heritage governance, revealing a stark gap between the ...
Aesthetics and the City
1st Edition
Edited
By Joe Blakey, Amy Barron
October 16, 2026
Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed. This book celebrates ...
Plants and Post-Socialist Cities: Entangled Narratives
1st Edition
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By Maciej Kowalewski, Mikołaj Madurowicz, Włodzimierz Karol Pessel
October 02, 2026
This book offers a theoretically informed exploration of the political, cultural, and ecological significance of urban greenery in post-socialist cities. It traces how plants mediate among memory, infrastructure, and regimes of power across diverse historical and geographical contexts. The book ...
Global Kaleidoscopes: East-West Cities in Literature
1st Edition
By Michael P. Moreno
September 30, 2026
This book introduces the concept of the East-West city to explore new urban identities that challenge binary constructions between Eastern and Western cultures through the literary study of global cities. It does so by reimagining our relational connections to time and space across diverse cultural...
Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Iva Ashish Srivastava
August 27, 2026
With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage. Lack of planning can have severe social, cultural, economic and political repercussions in cities. Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable scrutinizes the paradigms of Urban ...
Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making
1st Edition
By Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore
August 27, 2026
To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism, Queerburbia examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada’s three largest city-regions (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), investigating print media and census representations, ...
City Reconstruction: Urban Policy Innovation Towards Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region
1st Edition
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By Ali A. Alraouf, Odeh Al-Jayyousi, Kheir Al-Kodmany
July 20, 2026
Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this book discusses the complexities of rebuilding cities amid wars and conflicts, highlighting the importance of harnessing global knowledge. It explores innovative approaches to urban planning, emphasizing the transformative power of "...
Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South: Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru
1st Edition
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By Christian Rosen, Nina Gribat
July 20, 2026
This book presents the concept of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery. Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex...
The Monumental
1st Edition
Edited
By Argyro Loukaki
July 20, 2026
The Monumental is an interdisciplinary collection of original, cutting-edge contributions by international researchers pursuing the epistemology and ontology of monuments over time and geography. The contributors are specialists in geography, architectural theory and history, prehistoric, Greek and...