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  • Volume 2: Housing and Home

    by Alma Clavin, Niamh Moore-Cherry, Carla Maria Kayanan, Faryal Diwan, Samadrita Das, Kamalika Banerjee, Sher Afgan Tareen, Amanda Furiasse, Dennis Archambault, Claudia Sanford, Tam Perry, Rosalie Warnock, Julia de Kadt, Alexandra Parker, Brian Robson, Dillon Newton, Leanne Monchuk, Rachel Armitage, Philip Brown, Yu Wang, Guanyu Jason Ran, Liangni Sally Liu, Lukas Stevens, Wescley Xavier, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris, Federico Camerin, Yuvacan Atmaca, Zeynep Atas, Phil Hubbard, Loretta Lees, Derek Hyra, Rebecca Tunstall ...
    Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
    The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Planetary Gentrification Reader

    Edited by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly ...
    Gentrification is a global process that the United Nations now sees as a human rights issue. This new Planetary Gentrification Reader follows on from the editors’ 2010 volume, The Gentrification Reader,and provides a more longitudinal (backward and forward in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo-/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Defensible Space on the Move

    Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice

    by Loretta Lees, Elanor Warwick ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts.Critically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has been influential in designing out crime to date, and has been applied to housing estates in the UK, ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • The Emancipatory City?

    Paradoxes and Possibilities

    Edited by Loretta Lees ...
    ′The Emancipatory City is a wonderful addition to a growing literature on the public culture of the city. In these spaces, tolerance and intolerance, difference and indifference, transgressions, resistances, and playful spontaneity erupt to give texture to urban life. The book broadens our gaze and deepens our understanding of how cities enable people to express themselves and be free′ - Robert A ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Planetary Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly ...
    This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Researching Human Geography

    by Anna Davies, Keith Hoggart, Loretta Lees ...
    Researching Human Geography is an essential new text for any geography student about to embark on a research project. An understanding of how different theories of knowledge have influenced research methodologies is crucial in planning and designing effective research; this book makes this link clear and explores how various philosophical positions, from positivism to post-structuralism, have ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Sustainable London?

    The Future of a Global City

    Edited by Rob Imrie, Loretta Lees ...
    Series series
    How is London responding to social and economic crises, and to the challenges of sustaining its population, economy and global status?Sustainable development discourse has come to permeate different policy fields, including transport, housing, property development and education. In this exciting book, authors highlight the uneven impacts and effects of these policies in London, including the ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Global Gentrifications

    Uneven Development and Displacement

    Edited by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales ...
    Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide.Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses and tests the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the ‘usual suspects’ ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Regenerating London

    Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City

    Edited by Rob Imrie, Loretta Lees, Mike Raco ...
    Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities. Engaging with social, economic, and political structures of cities, it highlights paradoxes and contradictions in urban policy and offers an evaluation of the contemporary forms of urban redevelopment. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Key Issues in Education and Social Justice

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Education Studies: Key Issues
    ‘This highly accessible book weaves together discussion of recent research findings, policy developments and theoretical perspectives. It provides a thought-provoking and at times contentious introduction that will challenge students and teachers to look beyond the easy and glib rhetoric, helping them understand the complexities of educating for a more equal world.′Shereen Benjamin, Senior ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

    Edited by Michael E. Leary, John McCarthy ...
    In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges ... Read more

    $65.99 USD