Mobile Technologies of the City

Edited by Mimi Sheller, John Urry

Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical,...

Published February 23rd 2006 by Routledge.

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Culture and Development in a Globalizing World

Geographies, Actors and Paradigms

Edited by Sarah Radcliffe

Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and...

Published February 2nd 2006 by Routledge.

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Visions of the City

Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth Century Urbanism

By David Pinder

Visions of the City is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of...

Published January 24th 2006 by Routledge.

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Cosmopolitan Urbanism

Edited by Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington, Craig Young

In order to attract investment and tourism, cities are increasingly competing to re-brand themselves as cosmopolitan, and in recent years, cosmopolitanism has become the focus...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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In the Nature of Cities

Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism

Edited by Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, Erik Swyngedouw

The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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The Geography of Tourism and Recreation

Environment, Place and Space

By C. Michael Hall, Stephen J. Page

Highlighting the inter-relationships between tourism, leisure and recreation, this revised edition introduces growing theoretical debates (from geography and the wider social science arena) to assess...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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Geographies of Globalization

By Warwick Murray

This informative text offers a geographical perspective on globalization. It provides a lively exploration of its spatial impacts and the distinctive contribution of human geography to studies and debates in...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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An Introduction to Sustainable Development

By Jennifer A. Elliott

Sustainable development continues to be the key idea around which environment and development are structured. This extensively revised third edition continues to provide a concise,...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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Cities and Consumption

By Mark Jayne

In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption...

Published December 15th 2005 by Routledge.

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Sustainable Development

By Susan Baker

The promotion of sustainable development opens up the debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, what constitutes social progress, and the character of development...

Published December 15th 2005 by Routledge.

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