6 Save up to 20% at e-elgar.com I For our electronic content, visit: elgaronline.com GOGRAPHY, URBAN & REGIONAL NEW TITLES, OCT – DEC 2022 Vertical Cities Micro-segregation, Social Mix and Urban Housing Markets Edited byThomas Maloutas, Harokopio University, Greece and Nikos Karadimitriou, University College London, UK ‘This book has a highly original focus on micro-segregation, particularly vertical, revealing forms of housing and urban inequalities and hierarchies that are otherwise hidden in socially mixed neighborhoods. Examples from different cities worldwide show how widespread those micro-segregations are, but also how different, in form, in the way they are shaped by historical processes and market dynamics, and in the local social configurations they create.’ – Edmond Préteceille, Sciences Po CNRS Paris, France Oct 2022 c 378 pp Hardback 978 1 80088 638 4 £115.00 / $165.00 eBook • Elgaronline Cities series A Research Agenda for Small and Medium-Sized Towns Edited by Heike Mayer, University of Bern, Switzerland and Michela Lazzeroni, University of Pisa, Italy ‘This volume shows that while big cities often steal the limelight – either because of their national economic importance or the intensity of their social, economic and environmental problems – small and medium-sized towns are an important dimension of urbanization, with significant implications for economic development, quality of life, sustainability, and environmental quality.’ – Paul Knox, Virginia Tech, US Dec 2022 c 220 pp Hardback 978 1 80088 711 4 c £80.00 / c $120.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Research Agendas TEXTBOOK Advanced Introduction to Social Movements and Political Protests Karl-Dieter Opp, University of Leipzig and University of Washington, Seattle, US ‘This truly impressive book offers an integrated theoretical approach to social movements and political protests. Opp applies his approach to help our understanding of major events, past and present, like the spread of the Protestant Reformation, and protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. A mustread for social scientists.’ – Sascha O. Becker, Monash University, Australia and University of Warwick, UK Dec 2022 c 248 pp Hardback 978 1 80088 791 6 c £85.00 / c $120.00 Dec 2022 Paperback 978 1 80088 793 0 c £15.95 / c $24.95 eTextbook Elgar Advanced Introductions series The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration Beyond Western Research Edited by Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, US and Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and Mesopolhis Aix-Marseille University, France ‘The editors, both renowned migration and gender scholars, have assembled a hugely impressive array of authors to rethink the global narratives which structure our understanding of gender and migration. Especially innovative is the focus on nonWestern settings wherein are explored a wide range of intersecting themes: migration, mobilities, displacement, gender, human rights, development, transnational care, and many more. This is a must-read for students of gendered migrations.’ – Russell King, University of Sussex, UK Dec 2022 c 480 pp Hardback 978 1 80220 125 3 c £165.00 / c $240.00 eBook • Elgaronline TEXTBOOK Advanced Introduction to Disaster Risk Reduction Douglas Paton, Charles Darwin University and University of Canberra, Australia ‘This is valuable work when the world is facing compounded hazards in a complex risk landscape. The book is also timely with countries taking stock of the midterm review of the Sendai Framework. The book illustrates nicely future aspects of disaster risk reduction including adaptive governance.’ – Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan Nov 2022 c 192 pp Hardback 978 1 80392 045 0 c £85.00 / c $120.00 Nov 2022 Paperback 978 1 80392 047 4 c £15.95 / c $24.95 eTextbook Elgar Advanced Introductions series Megaprojects for Megacities A Comparative Casebook Edited by John D. Landis, University of Pennsylvania, US Megaprojects for Megacities is a collection of 14 international case studies of transportation, urban development, and environmental megaprojects completed during the last ten years in North America, Asia and Europe. It goes beyond the previous megaproject literature to look at how and why each project was conceived, planned, engineered, financed, and delivered, and at how particular planning and delivery practices shaped outcomes. Nov 2022 c 614 pp Hardback 978 1 80392 062 7 c £150.00 / c $215.00 eBook • Elgaronline
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