Neo-Bohemia, 2e, Book of the Month, November 2011
Richard Lloyd's Neo-Bohemia, 2e anticipates key urban trends at the dawn of the twenty-first century, and shedds light on both the nature of contemporary bohemias and the cities that house them....
View ArticleFeatured Book: Cities and Sexualities
Cities and Sexualities By Phil Hubbard Detailing the relationships between sexed bodies, sexual subjectivities and forms of intimacy, Cities and Sexualities explores the role of the city in shaping...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Children, Youth and the City
Children, Youth and the City By Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk Children, Youth and the City argues that young people must be recognized as urban social agents in their own right. This...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, edited by Ian Douglas (University of Manchester), David Goode (University College London), Michael C. Houck (Greenspaces Institute), and Rusong Wang (Research...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Automobility in Transition?
Automobility in Transition? examines the evolution towards car-based forms of transport: problems associated with it; the success of efforts to deal with problems of pollution, congestion, and safety;...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Companion to Urban Design
There has never before been a more authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core, foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design. The Companion to Urban Design serves as...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Transitions to Sustainable Development
New in paperback! Transitions to Sustainable Development oultlines the dynamics and governance of long-term change towards sustainable development.
View ArticleDistributed Urbanism, Book of the Month, December 2011
Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth explores the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, and examines the architectural practices that have...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods
This collection of essays analyzes roles of ethnic entrepreneurs in the rise of ethnic neighborhoods as places of leisure and consumption. Recommend this book to a librarian.
View ArticleFeatured Book: Spatial Regulation in New York City
In Spatial Regulation in New York City, Themis Chronopoulos examines the applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance policing. He argues that these...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Urban Geography, 4e
The fourth edition of this textbook features new chapters on urban world and politics, housing and Residential Segregation, and transport in cities; international case studies; new illustrations and...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Cities and Sexualities
In Cities and Sexualities, Phil Hubbard uses case studies to demonstrate why sex matters in any understanding of urban life. This book puts queer theory in dialogue with spatial theory to explain how...
View ArticleFeatured Book: Urban Theory Beyond the West
Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters that raise theoretical issues about cities throughout the world.
View ArticleFeatured Book: Space, Place, and Violence
James A. Tyner's (Kent State University) Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically question both violent geographies and the geographies of violence....
View ArticleFeatured Book: The Community Development Reader, 2e
"This updated anthology is a welcome addition for those who teach community development. It is a thorough and comprehensive treatment of the field that covers questions of practice and theory. A new...
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