The Second Edition of Kaplan's "Urban Geography" text aims to uncover the excitement and richness found in cities, while tackling the wide variety of urban challenges. This text offers a comprehensive treatment of urban geography, covering the field both as it has evolved and as it exists today and fully explores the origins and development of ...
This book provides a coherent, comprehensive introduction to urban geography. It offers a historical and process-oriented approach with a North American focus that also provides a global context and comparative international perspective. From a global perspective, the authors examine urban trends and their outcomes in both the developed and the ...
Urban Geography is a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to the study of towns and cities. This book synthesises a wealth of material to provide a comprehensive introduction for students of urban geography, drawing on a rich blend of theoretical and empirical information, to advance their knowledge of the city. For the first time in the ...
For courses in Urban Geography and Urban Planning. This book covers all the important traditional urban geography topics such as urban spatial structure, central place theory, neighborhood change, and industrial locations analysis, and also expands upon these to include contemporary topics such as global cities, gender, activism, technology, ...
In order to attract investment and tourism, cities are increasingly competing to re-brand themselves as cosmopolitan, and in recent years, cosmopolitanism has become the focus of considerable critical attention in academia. Here, renowned editors and contributors have come together to produce one of the first books to tackle cosmopolitanism from a ...
Containing relevant material from the 1990 Census, this survey of the city and suburbia explores all major aspects of city structure. It features both an international and historical perspective, offering students a broad outlook on development issues and the growth of the middle class.
The Mexican Border Cities examines eighteen cities along the 2,000-mile border, ranging from towns of less than 10,000 people to dynamic metropolises of nearly a million. Arreola and Curtis show that, despite their proximity to the United States, these border cities are fundamentally Mexican places, as distinguished by their cultural landscapes. ...
The City A-Z is a unique compendium of specially commissioned pieces of text and illustrations, with contributions from many of the leading names in urban culture, geography and sociology, to introduce students to a novel way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban life. Short entries, arranged alphabetically, capture moments of the ...
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in: shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development ...
Today, for the first time in the history of humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance - for the distribution of population within countries; in the organisation of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and ...
City Worlds presents both an overview and the core of the argument in the Understanding Cities series. Using an integrated and interactive text City Worlds draws on our spatial imaginations to prompt a distinctive understanding of cities.
'This book pulls together an exceptional range of literature in addressing the complexity of contemporary patterns and processes of urbanization. It offers a rich array of concepts and theories and is studded with fascinating examples that illustrate the changing nature of cities and urban life' - Paul Knox, University Distinguished Professer, ...
This book, first published under the title "Urban Geography - A First Approach" serves as an introduction to the field of urban geography and offers a balance between studies of systems of cities on the one hand and specific cities on the other. It is designed to provide a broad introduction to the study of urban geography as part of a ...
Giving social scientists and students a solid introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS), this study focuses on some of society's most pressing issues, including growth, pollution, and economic development. By calling upon such high-end analytical tools as Global Positioning System navigation and satellite imagery, GIS can be a ...
This study of cities on China's inland frontiers from ancient times to the present charts new territory in both geography and Chinese studies. It integrates the approaches of urban geography, cultural historical geography, and frontier studies to assess the form and function of cities on the Chinese frontiers. It is the first work to explore the ...
Remotely Sensed Cities examines how the world's urban areas can be located, measured and analysed using information from the latest airborne and satellite remote sensors, including breakthroughs in the use of LIDAR and IKONOS data for precision mapping, and DMSP OLS night-time imagery for establishing global distributions of population and ...
"Postmodern Geography: Theory and Praxis" focuses upon one of the key themes which have served to shape disciplinary debates in geography over the past decade: the role of postmodernity and postmodern interpretations in reconfiguring our ways of framing social enquiry and our readings of space. This edited collection presents numerous perspectives ...
"Music and Urban Geography" is the first book to theorize musical aspects of the tremendous changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over the past few decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography, and historical materialism, Krims maps changes not only in how music represents cities, but also in how music ...
Driven by advances in technology and societal needs, the next frontier in remote sensing is urban areas. With the advent of high-resolution imagery and more capable techniques, the question has become 'Now that we have the technology, how do we use it?' The need for a definitive resource that explores the technology of remote sensing and the ...
The complex relations between territory and the social sciences are explained by investigators from different disciplines: geography, economy, sociology and history among them. The current ferment in the social sciences has assigned an increasingly important role to the concept of space. "In Geography, History and Social Sciences, established, ...
This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness and postcolonial perspectives to bear on debates about urban change. It presents a thought-provoking contribution to debates about urban change, race and cosmopolitan urbanism. It brings the study of whiteness to the discipline of geography, questioning the notion of white ethnicity. It ...
This collection provides a new assessment of the place of neighborhood within the wider debates of urban social exclusion and integration. It draws on research from twenty-two neighborhoods in eleven European cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Birmingham, Berlin, Hamburg, Milan, Naples and Paris and addresses two questions: ...
Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new migrant communities creates complex urban borders ...
In 2000, for the first time, a majority of the world's population was living in cities. The trend towards increasing urbanization shows no sign of slowing and the third millennium looks set to be an unprecedentedly urban one. "Making Sense of Cities" provides an up-to-date, vibrant and accessible introduction to urban geography. It offers students ...
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