Books in the Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City series

Presents an introduction into how, on whose behalf, and with what consequences the cities in which we live are run.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. This book explores the complex relationships between design and urban environments.

Offers a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. This book presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates. It looks behind the 'headlines' on issues of transport, housing, uneven development, and regeneration.

How does cinema rework city planners' hopes and city dwellers' fears of modern urbanism? Can an analysis of city films answer some of the questions posed in urban studies? This book suggests that modernity links urbanism and cinema. It is suitable for students and researchers of film studies, urban studies and cultural studies.

More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Considering the causes and forms of social inequalities in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, ability and geographical location, this book discusses specific issues such as poverty, homelessness and work.

Provides an introduction to the relationships between cities and economies in both historical and global contexts.

Features an account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce which questions the received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture, through cases in which different kinds of culture are seen to be differently used in, or affected by, the development of particular cities.

In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this useful text for students asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?

The first indepth analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change. Provides a valuable interdisciplinary analysis of the issues and will appeal to students and researchers interested in sustainability at local and global scales. Features on Australian case study (Newcastle, NSW).