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New and Published Books

  1. The Tall Buildings Reference Book

    Edited by David Parker, Antony Wood

    As the ever-changing skylines of cities all over the world show, tall buildings are an increasingly important solution to accommodating growth more sustainably in today’s urban areas. Whether it is residential, a workplace or mixed use, the tower is both a statement of intent and the defining image...

    Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Cities and Nature

    2nd Edition

    By Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short

    Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

    Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively...

    Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Ethical Planning Practitioner

    By Jerry Weitz

    If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game, is it wrong to take them—even if the planner pays for them? Should a planning consultant bid on a project that has a clearly unrealistic timeframe? Can a planning director moonlight for another agency? For practicing...

    Published May 13th 2013 by APA Planners Press

  4. Metropolitan Problems

    By S. Miles

    Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The book, which took three years to complete, represents the culmination of a two year study that was highlighted by a conference held in toronto in 1967. In the early...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Third World Urbanization

    By J. Abu-Lughod, R. Jr Hay

    This book was first published in 1977....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Pre-Colombian Cities

    By Jorge Enrique Hardoy

    What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Urban Community

    A World Perspective

    By Nels Andersen

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    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  8. City Slums

    A Political Thesis

    By J.A. Ingham

    This book was first published in 1889....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  9. The New Urban Economics

    And Alternatives

    By H.W. Richardson

    This book was first published in 1977. ...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Rails Through the Clay

    A History of London's Tube Railways

    By Alan A. Jackson, Desmond F. Croome

    This book was first published in 1962. ...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. The Urban Land Nexus and the State
    By A. J. Scott
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  2. Cities and Services: The geography of collective consumption
    By Steven Pinch
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  3. Cities, Capitalism and Civilization
    By R.J. Holton
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  4. City and Society: An Outline for Urban Geography
    By R.J. Johnston
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  5. Urban Sociology: Critical Essays
    Edited by C.G. Pickvance
    To Be Published May 31st 2013

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