Phil Hubbard: 4 books

Book cover of City
by Phil Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human geography. While most of the world’s population now lives in cities, the definition and theoretical specification of the city nonetheless remains elusive. In this extensively updated second edition, Phil Hubbard...
Book cover of Cities and Sexualities
by Phil Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

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...
Book cover of The Battle for the High Street

The Battle for the High Street

Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust

by Phil Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight in many British cities....
Book cover of People and Place

People and Place

The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life

by Lewis Holloway, Phil Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

An innovative introduction to Human Geography, exploring different ways of studying the relationships between people and place, and putting people at the centre of human geography. The book covers behavioural, humanistic and cultural traditions, showing how these can lead to a nuanced understanding...
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