Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Equity in the Urban Built Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Bradley Bereitschaft
May 22, 2026
This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities. Achieving more equitable and prosperous urban places requires a critical examination of the ...
Ecological Marketing in EU Cities
1st Edition
By Magdalena Tomala
March 27, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of eco- marketing in large cities of the European Union. It explains how environmental marketing becomes a strategic tool for building sustainable development in cities. This book explores theoretical foundations such as green marketing and sustainable ...
Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Mania: Urban Change in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By David Wilson, Elvin Wyly
March 18, 2026
This innovative book applies the metaphor of Dracula to understand a highly controversial reality that marks so many cities today: how the rage of smart city development and growth proceeds, is organized, and produces benefits for some and afflicts others. It also explores how social science ...
The Politics of Land and Value: Case Studies from Across the Globe
1st Edition
Edited
By Mi Shih, Kathe Newman
February 27, 2026
This book investigates the treatment of land as a source of money in global urban processes. Probing land development at moments of value creation, capture, negotiation, contestation, and transformation, it sheds light on how and why value practices matter in transforming the politics of the status...
Urban Sustainability in the Making: Aalborg’s Transformation Projects, Processes and Reflexive Practices
1st Edition
By Enza Lissandrello, Alessandra Badami
December 15, 2025
This book explores how urban sustainability is negotiated and enacted through planning practices, narratives, and institutional change. It does so through the case of Aalborg, to illustrate transitions that are shaped by urgency, legitimation and implementation. It offers a theoretically grounded ...
Mapping Legalities: Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Coggin, Roopa Madhav
November 28, 2025
This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment. It focuses on access to physical space, revealing the punitive ways in which law regulates space and informal work which relies on space. Across various cities worldwide, the chapters in ...
Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers
1st Edition
By Mark Jayne, Wu Siying, Wu Chenhui
September 23, 2025
Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world. The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, ...
Aesthetics and the City
1st Edition
Edited
By Joe Blakey, Amy Barron
July 25, 2025
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 ...
Heritage, Crafting Communities and Urban Transformation: Durga Puja Festival, Kolkata
1st Edition
By Debapriya Chakrabarti
January 30, 2025
This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms. It contributes to ongoing debates in the social sciences about infrastructure rights and citizenship, and it throws insight on human–infrastructure interactions in the ...
Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action
1st Edition
By Leah Modigliani
December 18, 2024
Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists’ responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres. This book is the first to analyse artworks as forms of ...
Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures
1st Edition
By Liora Bigon, Edna Langenthal
November 28, 2024
Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy, and ethics. The book combines...
Lahore in the 21st Century: The Functioning and Development of a Megacity in the Global South
1st Edition
By Mohammad A. Qadeer
October 09, 2024
Analysing the evolution of Lahore’s social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and the urban environment. It uncovers the internal dynamics and functional order ...