The Critical Concepts in Urban Studies series spans a broad range of areas within this vast field of study and research. Our recent backlist of titles includes the likes of Global Cities, Cities and Sustainability and The Making of Olympic Cities.
Recently, the series has seen an explosion of new titles, as the field flourishes in popularity and research ouput. Each of the collections in the series are edited and introduced by leading academics in the field and meet the needs of students and researchers in providing an overview of the subject, as well as historical context and up-to-date scholarship.
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By Margaret Crawford, Marco Cenzatti
October 31, 2017
Since the "Opening Up" period of 1978-80, China has urbanized with unprecedented speed. The construction of completely new cities and the dramatic redevelopment of existing urban centers have completely transformed the Chinese landscape. This urban revolution has generated an astonishing number and...
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By Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox
December 11, 2012
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 ...
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By Joan Fitzgerald, Michael Motta Jr.
September 10, 2012
‘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 ...
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By Alan Wilson
September 08, 2012
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 ...
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By JOHN R GOLD, Margaret Gold
June 19, 2012
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 ...
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By Andrew Tallon
March 25, 2010
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 ...
