Human Geography category: 3213 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.
For further information on this collection please email info.research@routledge.co.uk.
Recapturing Democracy
Neoliberalization and the Struggle for Alternative Urban Futures
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Recapturing Democracy is a short yet synoptic introduction to urban democracy in our era of political neoliberalism and economic globalization. Combining an original argument with a number of case studies, Mark Purcell explores the condition of democracy in contemporary Western cities. Whereas many...
by Kenny Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World is an introduction to the relationships between rural and urban places in the developing world and shows that...
Mega-Urbanization in the Global South
Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The global south is entering an ‘Urban Age’ where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns...
Global Foodscapes
Oppression and resistance in the life of food
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
What we eat – as well as how it is produced, processed, moved, sold, and used by our bodies seems to matter like never before. Global Foodscapes takes on this topicality and asks readers to think about how we are all involved in the making of an odd and, in many ways, troubling and contested food...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various approaches and their potential to...
America's Fight Over Water
The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.
Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China
Insights from Social Science Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Since the late 1970s, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of urbanization. In 1978, only 17.8% of the population resided in urban areas, but by 2013 the level of urbanization had reached 53.8%. During the same period, China also enjoyed spectacular economic growth. China had become the second...
by Dominic Power, Allen J. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2004
Since the Second World War there has been considerable growth in the importance of non-manufacturing based forms of production to the performance of many Western economies. Many countries have seen increased contributions being made by industries such as the media, entertainment and artistic sectors.
Gathering...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2003
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods
Subjectivities and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition of the social on a global scale. Because precariousness is multidimensional and polysemantic, it traverses contemporary...
Creative Industries in Europe
Drivers of New Sectoral and Spatial Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book demonstrates how the creative industries are driving new sectoral and spatial dynamics in European cities, regions, and countries, and how these may be influenced by international and global dynamics. It takes a purposeful geographical approach to the study of the creative industries across...
Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood,...