Books in the Routledge Advances in Urban History series

This exciting collection of essays explores new ways of understanding politics and governance in Europe's cities over the last 500 years. Reflecting state of the art scholarship, it will be essential reading for any student of power and rule in the urban past.

Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were labelled "backward" and allegedly had to follow the model of London, Paris or Vienna. The volume shows that cities such as Barcelona, Lviv, Milan, Moscow or Zagreb pursued their agendas of modernization through interurban knowledge exchange.

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built environment, the sociocultural milieu, and contemporary representations of these spaces. Port cities, in turn, conditioned the lives of these mobile people.

The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource or commodity and mobilized over long distances. Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern "urban nature", unravelling actors and processes urbanizing nature from 1500 till today.

Urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the city as the primary site of human creativity and innovation. This volume critically challenges the core premise underlying this narrative, asking why we automatically have to look at cities as being the agents of change and innovation. What processes have been at work historically before the predominance of cities in nurturing creativity and innovation was established?

Drawing on recent advances in research on migration regulation, identification and registration, and governmentality, this book explores the practices, spaces, and documents by which migrants were monitored in various European cities over the past five centuries, to contribute to a material genealogy of urban migration regulation.

The contributions to this volume address the materiality of literary narratives in urban history from a range of perspectives and in light of a wealth of textual materials, in an effort to see how literature studies could learn from urban history, and vice versa.

This book explores the genesis, development and collapse of London's controversial post-war plans for urban motorways, and how grand plans for infrastructure gained and lost legitimacy. It examines why and how plans were made, and how expert opinion changed as it failed to deliver utopia.

This book explores the role of emotions in the making and remaking of the city, from the medieval to the modern and across the globe. It brings together an interdisciplinary scholarship to highlight how an emotions lens brings new insights to urban studies.

Urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the city as the primary site of human creativity and innovation. This volume critically challenges the core premise underlying this narrative, asking why we automatically