Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Urban Sustainability in the Making: Aalborg’s Transformation Projects, Processes and Reflexive Practices
1st Edition
By Enza Lissandrello, Alessandra Badami
December 15, 2025
This book explores how urban sustainability is negotiated and enacted through planning practices, narratives, and institutional change. It does so through the case of Aalborg, to illustrate transitions that are shaped by urgency, legitimation and implementation. It offers a theoretically grounded ...
Mapping Legalities: Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Coggin, Roopa Madhav
November 28, 2025
This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment. It focuses on access to physical space, revealing the punitive ways in which law regulates space and informal work which relies on space. Across various cities worldwide, the chapters in ...
Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers
1st Edition
By Mark Jayne, Wu Siying, Wu Chenhui
September 23, 2025
Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world. The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, ...
Aesthetics and the City
1st Edition
Edited
By Joe Blakey, Amy Barron
July 25, 2025
Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed. This book celebrates ...
Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Iva Ashish Srivastava
May 30, 2025
With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage. Lack of planning can have severe social, cultural, economic and political repercussions in cities. Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable scrutinizes the paradigms of Urban ...
Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making
1st Edition
By Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore
May 10, 2025
To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism, Queerburbia examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada’s three largest city-regions (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), investigating print media and census representations, ...
Heritage, Crafting Communities and Urban Transformation: Durga Puja Festival, Kolkata
1st Edition
By Debapriya Chakrabarti
January 30, 2025
This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms. It contributes to ongoing debates in the social sciences about infrastructure rights and citizenship, and it throws insight on human–infrastructure interactions in the ...
Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action
1st Edition
By Leah Modigliani
December 18, 2024
Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists’ responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres. This book is the first to analyse artworks as forms of ...
Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures
1st Edition
By Liora Bigon, Edna Langenthal
November 28, 2024
Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy, and ethics. The book combines...
Lahore in the 21st Century: The Functioning and Development of a Megacity in the Global South
1st Edition
By Mohammad A. Qadeer
October 09, 2024
Analysing the evolution of Lahore’s social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and the urban environment. It uncovers the internal dynamics and functional order ...
The Anatomy of Inclusive Cities: Insight into Migrants in Selected Capital Cities of Southern Africa
1st Edition
By Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu, Lovemore Chipungu
October 09, 2024
Creating cities inclusive of immigrants in Southern Africa is both a balancing act and a protracted process that requires positive attitudes informed by accommodative institutional frameworks. This book revolves around two key contemporary issues that cities around the globe are trying to achieve –...
Writing the City Square: On the History and the Histories of City Squares
1st Edition
By Martin Zerlang
October 09, 2024
The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora, the forum, the piazza, the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history, and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square ...