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Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City


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The Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City Series offers a forum for cutting-edge and original research that explores different aspects of the city. Titles within this series critically engage with, question, and challenge, contemporary theory and concepts to extent current debates and pave the way for new critical perspectives on the city. This series explores a range of social, political, economic, cultural and spatial concepts, offering innovative and vibrant contributions, international perspectives, and interdisciplinary engagements with the city from across the social sciences and humanities. It will appeal to upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars, working in urban studies, planning, geography, geohumanities, sociology, politics, the arts, cultural studies, popular culture, philosophy and literature.

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Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization

Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Enikő Vincze, Ioana Florea, Manuel B. Aalbers
July 19, 2024

This book examines the progression of real estate development within the deindustrialization-financialization nexus. It explores the roles it has in semi-peripheral contexts such as Romania, where it overlaps with the process of the transformation of state socialism into neoliberal capitalism, ...

Urban Narratives and the Spaces of Rome Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City

Urban Narratives and the Spaces of Rome: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City

1st Edition

By Gregory Smith
May 31, 2023

This book foregrounds the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini to study the Roman periphery and examine the relevance of Pasolini’s vision in the construction of subaltern identity and experience. It analyses the contemporary Italian society to understand the problem of social exclusion of marginal ...

Urban Recovery Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction

Urban Recovery: Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction

1st Edition

Edited By Howayda Al-Harithy
May 31, 2023

This book calls for re-conceptualising urban recovery by exploring the intersection of reconstruction and displacement in volatile contexts in the Global South. It explores the spatial, social, artistic, and political conditions that promote urban recovery. Reconstruction and displacement have ...

Housing Displacement Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

1st Edition

Edited By Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn, Maria Persdotter, Emil Pull
April 29, 2022

This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a prime act of housing injustice – a central issue in urban injustices. With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, ...

Manhattan's Public Spaces Production, Revitalization, Commodification

Manhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification

1st Edition

By Ana Morcillo Pallarés
November 30, 2021

Manhattan’s Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York’s public space over the past few decades. By exploring a mix of urban mechanisms, supportive frameworks, legal systems, and planning guidelines for the ...

Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City

Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City

1st Edition

By Cecilie Sachs Olsen
August 30, 2020

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism? This book discusses the potential of artistic practices to question the nature of city environments and the diverse productions of space, moving beyond the reduction of ‘the urban’ as a set of existing and static structures. ...

Gender and Gentrification

Gender and Gentrification

1st Edition

By Winifred Curran
July 12, 2019

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city. It focuses in particular on the impact of gentrification on women and racialized men, ...

Spatial Complexity in Urban Design Research Graph Visualization Tools for Communities and their Contexts

Spatial Complexity in Urban Design Research: Graph Visualization Tools for Communities and their Contexts

1st Edition

By Jamie O’Brien
June 10, 2019

This book offers state-of-the-art ‘tools for thinking’ for urban designers, planners and decision-makers. Thematically it focuses on the contexts of problems in urban design and places community spaces at the heart of urban design research. The book provides practicable tools for network modelling ...

Peri-Urban China Land Use, Growth, and Integrated Urban–Rural Development

Peri-Urban China: Land Use, Growth, and Integrated Urban–Rural Development

1st Edition

By Li Tian, Yan Guo
April 09, 2019

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, the process by which fringe areas of cities develop. Recent institutional change has helped clarify property rights over collective land, facilitating ...

Gentrification as a Global Strategy Neil Smith and Beyond

Gentrification as a Global Strategy: Neil Smith and Beyond

1st Edition

Edited By Abel Albet, Núria Benach
February 14, 2019

This book pays homage to Neil Smith’s ideas, offering a critical approach and rich collection of insights that draw on Smith’s work for inspiration and debate. With interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading experts, the book demonstrates the impact of Smith’s ideas on ...

Art and the City Worlding the Discussion through a Critical Artscape

Art and the City: Worlding the Discussion through a Critical Artscape

1st Edition

Edited By Jason Luger, Julie Ren
August 14, 2018

Artistic practices have long been disturbing the relationships between art and space. They have challenged the boundaries of performer/spectator, of public/private, introduced intervention and installation, ephemerality and performance, and constantly sought out new modes of distressing ...

Mega-Event Mobilities A Critical Analysis

Mega-Event Mobilities: A Critical Analysis

1st Edition

Edited By Noel B. Salazar, Christiane Timmerman, Johan Wets, Luana Gama Gato, Sarah Van den Broucke
December 28, 2016

Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entail global exposure and intense struggles by different stakeholders. This is the first book to examine sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. ...

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