The City Reader

The Routledge Urban Reader Series responds to the need for comprehensive coverage of the classic and essential texts that form the basis of intellectual work in the various academic disciplines and professional fields concerned with cities and city planning.

The readers focus on the key topics encountered by undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in urban studies, geography, sociology, political science, anthropology, economics, culture studies and professional fields such as city and regional planning, urban design, architecture, environmental studies, international relations and landscape architecture. They discuss the contributions of major theoreticians and practitioners and other individuals, groups, and organizations that study the city or practice in a field that directly affects the city.

As well as drawing together the best of classic and contemporary writings on the city, each reader features extensive introductions to the book, sections, and individual selections prepared by the volume editors to place the selections in context, illustrate relations among topics, provide information on the author and point readers towards additional related bibliographic material.