Book Series
Questioning Cities
New & Published Titles:
Life in the Megalopolis
Mexico City and Sao Paulo
The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39272-3 (Routledge)
Cities, Nationalism and Democratization
Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities. Bollens uses a wide-ranging set of over 100…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41947-5 (Routledge)
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Cities in Globalization
Practices, policies and theories
Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40984-1 (Routledge)
Cities and Race
America's New Black Ghetto
This fascinating book examines the 1990s rise of a new black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto'. It uses the emergent perspective of…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35806-4 (Routledge)
Small Cities
Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis
Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36658-8 (Routledge)
City Publics
The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters
Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31228-8 (Routledge)
Urban Space and Cityscapes
Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture
From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Singapore to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this interdisciplinary volume of new writing examines…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36653-3 (Routledge)
In the Nature of Cities
Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36828-5 (Routledge)
Ordinary Cities
Between Modernity and Development
With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30488-7 (Routledge)
Reason in the City of Difference
In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28767-8 (Routledge)
Series Details:
The Questioning Cities series brings together an unusual mix of urban scholars under the title. Rather than taking a broadly economic approach, planning approach or more socio-cultural approach, it aims to include titles from a multi-disciplinary field of those interested in critical urban analysis. The series thus includes authors who draw on contemporary social, urban and critical theory to explore different aspects of the city. It is not therefore a series made up of books which are largely case-studies of different cities and predominantly descriptive. It seeks instead to extend current debates, through in most cases, excellent empirical work, and to develop sophisticated understandings of the city from a number of disciplines including geography, sociology, politics, planning, cultural studies, philosophy and literature. The series also aims to be thoroughly international where possible, to be innovative, to surprise, and to challenge received wisdom in urban studies. Overall, it will encourage a multi-disciplinary and international dialogue always bearing in mind that simple description or empirical observation, which is not located within a broader theoretical framework, would not - for this series at least - be enough.
Forthcoming Titles:
Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities
Edited by Christoph Lindner
To be published December 30th 2009
Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Edited by Ignacio Farias, Thomas Bender
To be published August 30th 2009
Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice
Edited by Peter Marcuse, James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid Olivio, James Potter, Justin Steil
To be published May 14th 2009