In the past three decades there have been dramatic changes in the fortunes of cities and regions, in beliefs about the role of markets and states in society, and in the theories used by social scientists to account for these changes. Many of the cities experiencing crisis in the 1970s have undergone revitalization, while others have continued to decline. In Europe and North America new pol…
This book had its genesis in a research collective, the International Tourism Research Group (ITRG), funded by the Council for European Studies. Although tourism had become an increasingly important sector of the global economy and shaper of cities, scholarship had yet to treat it with the seriousness accorded to other urban topics. Our aim was to place tourism within a theoretical perspective …
The day after I first arrived in Guayaquil in mid-1992, a friend showed me around town. I was given the classic geographer’s tour of the city, Ecuador’s largest, located on the Pacific coast of this Andean country. The tour ended in the late afternoon on a hill on the outskirts of the central part of town. It is the kind of hill often favoured by geographers and planners to take visitor…
The term ‘urban design’ may have been coined in the mid-1950s but 20 years later it was still largely unused outside a small circle of people concerned with the four-dimensional development of precincts of cities. Now it is used for almost anything concerned with human settlements. This change has occurred for two reasons. The first is the importance of urban design’s spheres of inter…
Throughout the world, more and more of policy making and the politics that shape it take place in the urban regions where most people live. This book, drawing on eleven case studies of similar but disparate urban regions in France, Germany and the United States from the 1960s into the 1990s, documents the growth of urban governance and develops a pioneering analysis of its causes and consequenc…
The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies is intended for a number of different audiences, ranging from high school students and teachers who require general information about topics that we have included here to advanced scholars who require an overview of topics not directly accessible in their area of study. This suggests that there are a number of ways to approach the encyclopedia—in other wor…
We had three primary aims in preparing this volume and inviting colleagues to join us. Firstly, we wanted to examine the perception that there was a ‘global brand’ of urban regeneration management and practice. In part, this has become a popular view shaped by what appears to be the mono-cultural experience of contemporary urban cites reinforced by the uniformity of shopping malls, air…