The Study of Urban Geography
Author | : Harold Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780726720017 |
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Author | : Harold Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780726720017 |
Author | : David H. Kaplan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
A contemporary introduction to urban geography by a renowned scholar in the field. As the growing world population increasingly comes to live in cities, the field of urban geography will continue to expand in numbers and significance. This book encompasses both systems of cities and the internal geography of metro areas. * Offers a good balance of theory, concepts and empirical examples. * Primary focus in the United States, with a chapter on global cities and three chapters on cities around the world. * Oriented directly to pressing urban issues such as restructuring, blight, sprawl, and segregation.
Author | : Tim Hall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 1136647368 |
Author | : Alan Latham |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2008-12-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1446202275 |
"This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline." - Roger Keil, co-Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research "The city is an obvious but confounding object of geographical analysis; urban structure and life are shaped by an astounding array of social, economic, and political dynamics. This volume embraces these complexities of city form in a wide-ranging, readable, well-informed, and highly interdisciplinary analysis of key topics in urban studies. With its fresh approach, this book provides an accessible entry point for the newcomer to urban geography, yet also delivers creative insights for those with greater familiarity." - Professor Steven K. Herbert, University of Washington Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Urban Geography provides a cutting-edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in urban geography. Involving detailed and expansive discussions, the book includes: An introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the recent developments in the field. Over 20 key concept entries with comprehensive explanations, definitions and evolutions of the subject. A glossary, figures, diagrams and suggested further reading. This is an ideal companion text for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in urban geography and covers the expected staples of the subdiscipline from global cities and urban nature to transnational urbanism and virtuality.
Author | : Harold Carter |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Raymond E. Murphy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 135148544X |
The rapidly changing structure of urban social and economic activity in recent years has given rise to a great deal of concern regarding the fate of that area of the city where economic activity is chiefly concentrated: the central business district (CBD). This book, a geographic study of the changing nature of CBDs, represents a concise, well-ordered, and readable attempt to deal with that concern. Written by a widely known authority on the subject, it provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of much of the research done on CBDs over the past two decades and establishes many striking generalizations regarding the past, present and future evolutions of CBDs, both in this country and abroad.Using maps and diagrams where helpful, Murphy, a pioneer researcher in this field from the standpoint of economic geography, provides the record of his own and others' attempts to define CBDs and to develop theories about them. He not only presents the story of the research attack on the CBDs of a number of cities, including estimates of their probable future, but also details a practicable technique for delimiting and studying CBDs.An important feature of the book is the attention Murphy devotes to the valuable work done in this field outside America, and his examples, which fully cover the American experience, are by no means confined to it, taking in important urban centres throughout the world. This book, intended for anyone interested in the urban scene, will be particularly helpful to students and teachers of urban geography and to practicing urban planners.
Author | : Benjamin Ofori-Amoah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Beyond the Metropolis is an attempt to mend the lacuna that exists between large and small city studies in urban geography, especially in North America. It covers a wide range of topics organized around some of the most common themes that urban geographers have addressed in their study of large cities. In addition to a general introduction and conclusion, the book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the evolution and growth of small cities.
Author | : Michael Pacione |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780415191968 |
This text is an introduction to the study of towns and cities. The book synthesizes 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 history of humankind, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is destined to continue. Urban places, towns and cities are of fundamental importance: for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power. Even those living beyond the administrative or functional boundaries of a town or city, will have their lifestyle influenced to some degree by a nearby or distant city.
Author | : Tim Schwanen |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 178536460X |
This collection brings together the latest thinking in urban geography. It provides a comprehensive overview of topical issues and draws on experiences from across the world. Chapters have been prepared by leading researchers in the field and cover themes as diverse as urban economies, inequalities and diversity, conflicts and politics, ecology and sustainability, and information technologies. The Handbook offers a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in cities and the urban in geography and across the wider social sciences.
Author | : Thomas Griffith Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780415417488 |
This book is divided into three parts. The first deals with typical settelements in each of the seven continents, the early stages of settlements, land surveys and general phases of town evolution. The second part discusses changes in site and patter, from Neolithic to modern times. The third part specializes in topographic and functional controls in modern towns. Chapters on Planning, Regional Surveys and Classification of towns close the book. There are about 300 specially drawn plans and diagrams of towns - which should appeal to the sociologist and town planner as well as to every serious student of geography. This book was first published in 1949.