Books in the Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series

The first book explore the contemporary challenges taking place in traditional retail spaces, drawing on international case studies from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Bulgaria, &the UK. It adopts a relational and multi-scalar approach to explore markets from the inside and out, connecting to wider local, national and global processes.

With contributions from leading authorities in the field, this book draws on the latest advances in social and urban theory, and original empirical material from North and South, to critically analyse the ongoing shifts in the relations between cities and technical infrastructure systems. It explore the urban condition beyond the realm of large networked infrastructures in globally diverse contexts.

This book adopts a critical and comparative reading of urban geopolitics from different urban settings, to learn through differences rather than seeking out similarities. It brings together a range of international case studies from the Far East, South America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East to offer an in-depth understating of the worldwide contested nature of cities with a detailed review from a wide range of local contexts. This book suggests an urban ontology that moves beyond the urban `West¿ and `North¿ as well as adding a comparative¿relational understanding of the contested nature that `Southern¿ cities are developing.

This book explores the phenomena of the urban every day and new urban tourism. It provides a systematic framework and draws on a mix of theoretical and empirical work to look at the increasing intermingling of 'tourists' and 'residents'.

This book explores the complex interplay between the (post) modern city and new religious and spiritual movements. It develops an ethnography-based analysis of the ways in which the 'urban' inscribes itself into various religious practices and vice versa, and how religiosity and spirituality appropriate and transform the meanings of urban. The book explores a new conceptualization of the word urban that is tightly linked with qualitative ethnographic research on the ground. The book also examines how cities are considered both sites and sources of where the globalization of religions takes place, as well as the interplay of globalization to the process of localization.