The series is designed to allow undergraduate readers to make sense of, and find a critical way into, urbanism. It will:
* cover a broad range of themes
* reconsider cities in relation to a specific theme
* introduce key ideas and sources
* allow the author to articulate her/his own position.
* introduce complex arguments clearly and accessibly
* bridge disciplines, and theory and practice
* be affordable and well designed
The series will cover social, political, economic, cultural and spatial concerns. It will appeal to students in architecture, cultural studies, geography, popular culture, sociology, urban studies, urban planning. While being firmly situated in the present, it also introduces material from the cities of modernity and post-modernity which, has fed into that position. Each volume will approach cities in a trans-disciplinary way.
By Barbara Mennel
June 03, 2019
The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space. The book demonstrates the importance of the filmic ...
By Malcolm Miles
August 08, 2018
This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries, juxtaposed with key ideas from ...
By Katharine Willis, Alessandro Aurigi
October 13, 2017
Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. There is a growing awareness in the fields of design and architecture of the need to address the way that technology affects the urban condition. This book aims to give an informative and definitive overview of the ...
By Thomas A. Hutton
September 09, 2015
The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media, digital arts, music and film, and the design industries and professions, as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The ...
By Christine Wamsler
November 19, 2013
Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face the challenge of integrating risk reduction and adaptation strategies into their work. However, ...
By Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short
June 24, 2013
Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively ...
By Harriet Bulkeley
January 31, 2013
Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate ...
By Phil Hubbard
November 28, 2011
From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces where new understandings of sexuality take shape. In an era of global business ...
By Jane Tormey
January 15, 2013
Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different ...
By Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk
December 15, 2011
More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and forms of social ...
By Simon Parker
December 21, 2010
Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies. Increasingly, however, attention has turned to the function of the city not only as a centre ...
By Paul L. Knox
July 30, 2010
Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in size and importance, reflecting ...