The City Reader

Roger W Caves editor Richard T LeGates editor Frederic Stout editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publishing:30th Jun '25

£230.00

This title is due to be published on 30th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

This hardback is available in another edition too:

The City Reader cover

The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series. It has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as urban history, place making, sustainable urban development, globalization, resilience, artificial intelligence in planning cities, climate change, the world city network, the impact of technology on cities, cities in Africa, and urban theory.

The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world, globalization and the global city system of the future. The plate sections have been more than doubled to include 93 plates.

The 8th edition includes fifty-eight generous selections: forty-seven from the 7th edition, one from the 6th edition, and ten new selections, including four newly written exclusively for the 8th edition. This new edition retains classic writings by authors such as Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, H.D.F. Kitto, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Louis Wirth, and Peter Hall as well as the best contemporary writings of, among others David Harvey, Manuel Castells, Michael Batty, Sara Meerow, Fulong Wu, Saskia Sassen, Richard LeGates, Michael Smith, John McWhorter, and a co-authored selection by Xuefei Ren and Roger Keil.

The City Reader 8th Edition features general and section introductions as well as individual introductions to the selected articles introducing the authors, providing context, and relating the selection to other selections. The 8th edition includes a greatly expanded bibliography with up-to-date information on books, articles, professional reports, and videos for all the topics covered.

… the definitively complete reader on urban problems and policies.

Peter Hall, University College London

… a "must read" book…comprehensive, authoritative and just plain fun.

Eugenie Birch, Professor of Urban Planning and Design, University of Pennsylvania

…A book for all generations of urbanists.

Margaret Wilder, Executive Director, Urban Affairs Association

… the single most authoritative collection of foundational readings in urban studies and planning today.

Tridib Bannerjee, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California

… an indispensable widely read book in the world which provides a collection of classical and contemporary seminal literature for understanding the multidisciplinary complexities of our cities.

Anthony G.O. Yeh, Chair Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Secretary-General, Asian Planning Schools Association

… the best single "go-to" volume for young scholars interested in how cities work, and how they can be made to work better.… As a one-stop source for historical and contemporary theory and practice… still unbeatable.

John Landis, Professor of Urban Planning and Design, University of Pennsylvania

… an indispensable resource across all the fields concerned with the study of city.

Michael Hibbard, Professor Emeritus of Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon

… a magnificent job… Essential reading as our world turns into one dominated by cities.

Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor, University College London

… should be on the required list for all individuals interested in urbanism

Roger Caves, Professor of Urban Planning, San Diego State University

… an excellent, international resource for all urbanists… a really useful global overview of contemporary developments in urban studies

Robin Hambleton, Professor of City Leadership, University of the West of England

… a continuing invaluable and reliable global resource for urban and regional planners tackling complex issues in an increasingly urbanising world.

Barbara Norman, Foundation Chair, Urban and Regional Planning Department, University of Canberra

… an inclusive introduction that captures the major topics and readings in urban studies.

Susan S. Fainstein, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

ISBN: 9781032857121

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

808 pages

8th edition