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  • Suburban Planet

    Making the World Urban from the Outside In

    by Roger Keil ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities.This book is about the process that creates the global urban periphery – suburbanization – and the ways of life – suburbanisms – we encounter there. Richly detailed ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Turning up the heat

    Urban political ecology for a climate emergency

    Edited by Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler, Yannis Tzaninis ...
    Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Peripheral Centralities

    The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs

    Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil, Paul Maginn ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The term ‘peripheral centralities’ may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated. To better understand the nature of peripheral centrality, Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs brings together a wide variety of examples of lost and forgotten peripheral ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Changing Asian Urban Geographies

    Urbanism and Peripheral Areas

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Roger Keil ...
    This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian urbanism, the book depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. It explains how the forces of globalisation, the logic of capital accumulation, and the history of rural-urban divide and interaction, path ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Pandemic Urbanism

    Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities

    by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced with its first pandemic on a majority urban planet.The authors reveal the social and historical context of recent infectious disease ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • After Suburbia

    Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Roger Keil, Fulong Wu ...
    Series series Global Suburbanisms
    After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Governing Cities Through Regions

    Canadian and European Perspectives

    Edited by Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Stefan Kipfer ...
    The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it.”Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Leviathan Undone?

    Towards a Political Economy of Scale

    Edited by Roger Keil, Rianne Mahon ...
    Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's foundations and fostered new interest in the concept of scale. Leviathan Undone? brings together leading theorists and scholars from a variety ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Globalizing Cities Reader

    Edited by Xuefei Ren, Roger Keil ...
    Series series Routledge Urban Reader Series
    The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Massive Suburbanization

    (Re)Building the Global Periphery

    Edited by K. Murat Guney, Roger Keil, Murat Ucoglu ...
    Series series Global Suburbanisms
    Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive suburbia," this book builds a new discussion pertaining to the problems of the urban periphery, urbanization, and the neoliberal production of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Suburban Governance

    A Global View

    Edited by Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel ...
    Series series Global Suburbanisms
    North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly pressing set of global challenges.In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Political Ecology

    Global and Local

    Edited by David Bell, Leesa Fawcett, Roger Keil, Peter Penz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era
    Political Ecology addresses environmental issues which Innis was concerned with, from a contemporary, political economy perspective. They explore a wide range of themes and issues including:* sustainability* risk and regulation* population growth* planetary management* impact of humanity on environment* role of technology and communication.Case studies provide further insight into issues such as ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD