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Global Cities

Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
Cities and Sustainability

Edited by Joan Fitzgerald, Michael Motta Jr.

Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

‘Sustainability’ is widely recognized as a key objective of urban development in the twenty-first century. But how is it realized in practice? What are its historical origins and its theoretical underpinnings? How does it connect to, or inform, related movements which seek to create more liveable...

Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
Urban Modelling

Edited by Alan Wilson

Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

The study of cities is one of the grand challenges of twenty-first-century science, and mathematical modelling—in this case, urban modelling—provides a crucial contribution to scholarly and practical projects fully to comprehend their workings, evolution, and associated planning problems. There...

Published September 7th 2012 by Routledge
The Making of Olympic Cities

Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

In the first forty or so years following its revival at the end of the nineteenth century, the burdens placed on cities hosting a modern Olympic Games were relatively modest. However, as the Games have grown in size and stature, morphing from a small-scale summer festival into an intensively...

Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
Urban Regeneration and Renewal

Edited by Andrew Tallon

Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

The pursuit of regeneration and renewal has played an important role in the history and development of the world’s cities, and the theoretical and applied issues around these critical concepts are of increasing importance to governments and local populations, as well as to urban professionals and...

Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge