Bücher der Reihe Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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