Bøker i Routledge Studies in Human Geography-serien

This book provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Argues for a rethinking of what constitutes creativity, foregrounding non-economic values and practices, and the often marginal and everyday spaces in which creativity takes shape.

This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia.

The desire of city governments for a 'renaissance' of their inner-cities has become a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. This book expands understandings of who participates in and benefits from the 'urban renaissance'. It focuses on the policies driving the urban regeneration process and their effects.

Engaging with the theory and policy of regional competitiveness, this title provides an integrated critique of the concept that is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics interested in regional development and policy.

Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable. This title explores how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers an assessment of the diverse forms that mapping now takes.

With case studies and co-authored commentaries, this work presents a thematic collection of articles that advances debates about rural childhood. Based on international research and theoretical innovation, it examines the socio-cultural contexts faced by the young.

From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis.