Human Geography
Secondary Cities
Exploring Uneven Development in Dynamic Urban Regions of the Global North
This book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development ‘success’ and ‘failure’. It provides innovative alternative relations and development strategies that reimagine the subordinate status of secondary cities.
Rural Poverty Today
Experiences of Social Exclusion in Rural Britain
Many people living in rural areas face hardship but the UK’s welfare system is poorly adapted to meet their needs, with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and cutbacks exacerbating pressures. This book combines person-based and place-based approaches to tackling rural poverty.
Rural Places and Planning
Stories from the Global Countryside
This book provides a compact analysis for students and early-career practitioners of the critical connections between place capitals and the broader practices of planning, seeded within rural communities. It introduces the breadth of the discipline, presenting examples of what planning means and what it can achieve in different rural places.
Roads Not Yet Travelled
Transport Futures Beyond 2050
What will the world be like in 2050? This book explores possible future worlds through eight hard science fiction stories, taking in automation, big data, climate catastrophe and government disfunction. It will encourage all those interested in a positive future for public mobility to take the steps to ensure we get there.
The Rise of the Infrastructure State
How US–China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide
Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US-China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America.
Rethinking Value Chains
Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This original volume brings together academics and activists from Europe to think creatively about the social and environmental imbalances of global production and how to reform the current economic system.
Rethinking Urbanism
Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South
This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism that emanate from European and North American cities. Myers uses a wide range of case studies from lesser studied cities across the Global South and Global North to present evidence for the need to reconstruct our understanding of ‘good’ urban environments.
Rethinking Sustainable Cities
Accessible, Green and Fair
Makes a significant contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere; that they be accessible, green and fair.
Rethinking Financial Behaviour
Rationality and Resistance in the Financialization of Everyday Life
UK and US pension policy expects consistently informed decision-making in finance. Deviating from this is often deemed “irrational”, ignoring uncontrollable factors in individuals’ lives.
Challenging existing policy approaches, this book proposes a fresh perspective on rationality when it comes to financial policy and practices.
Retail Ruins
The Ghosts of Post-Industrial Spectacle
In the context of widespread precarity and ongoing crises, ruins have captured much attention in recent years. This book is about a troubling new kind of space for consumer society: the retail ruin. Drawing on the author’s own fieldnotes and photographs, this book takes a hauntological approach to these ‘new’ ruins in the urban landscape.
Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit
An International and Interdisciplinary Perspective
A wide range of contributors bring expertise from both developed and developing countries, to provide a big picture assessment of Bus Rapid Transit as part of an affordable process for restructuring transit systems
Restructuring large housing estates in Europe
Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry
All over Europe post-Second World War large-scale housing estates face physical, economic, social and cultural problems. This book presents the key findings of a major EU-funded research programme into the restructuring of twenty-nine large-scale housing estates in Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe.