Launched in 2005 and published in collaboration with the Penn Institute for Urban Research, The City in the Twenty-First Century is an interdisciplinary series that publishes work addressing urban architecture, economics, history, planning, political science, sociology, and urban design.
Series Editors: Eugénie L. Birch Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Wachter Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Staff Editorial Contact: Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban...
In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, as well as his many years of international work as a lecturer and consultant, to share his...
Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are...
Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
Sai Balakrishnan
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512825503
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Economic corridors—ambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertaking—are dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization. Spanning...
In Community Benefits, Jovanna P. Rosen explores a new pattern in urban development: local residents and community representatives leveraging large-scale development projects for agreements that promise...
The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region
Dr. Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512822915
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Nation’s Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy. Its authors distinguish aspects of the Washington region that reflect its characteristics...
The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region
Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512822922
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: eBook
Nation’s Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy. Its authors distinguish aspects of the Washington region that reflect its characteristics...
China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980. This book situates China’s urbanization in the...
Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era
Howard Gillette Jr.
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812253719
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to...
In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians have incentives to ignore formal urban plans and sideline...
