Urban Studies

View the "Chapters tab on this page to access free chapters from this book."_x005F_x000D_ Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European citi..

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems and analyses the structure of the Soviet urban network and its future development under the constraints of central planning. _x000D_  ..

This book merges two schools of thought - one that is political economic, and the other more culturally oriented - into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures...

This book merges two schools of thought - one that is political economic, and the other more culturally oriented - into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures...

Sustainable Urban Development Reader..

This work considers how and why cities change their governing arrangements - and the implications for cities of the future. It provides case studies that show how actual cities have changed and adapted their structure to fit changing times and citizen demands...

This work considers how and why cities change their governing arrangements - and the implications for cities of the future. It provides case studies that show how actual cities have changed and adapted their structure to fit changing times and citizen demands...

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and coll..

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and coll..

Despite the overwhelming evidence against them, many people still believe they can overcome the economic and racial constraints placed upon them at birth. In the first edition, Heather Beth Johnson explored this belief in the American Dream with over 200 in-depth interviews with black and white fami..

The American Suburb: The Basics is a compact, readable introduction to the origins and contemporary realities of the American suburb. Teaford provides an account of contemporary American suburbia, examining its rise, its diversity, its commercial life, its government, and its housing issues. While o..

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...