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Product Identifiers
PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-101405189797
ISBN-139781405189798
eBay Product ID (ePID)204060048
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
Publication NameUrban Geography : a Critical Introduction
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
SubjectHuman Geography, Sociology / Urban
TypeTextbook
AuthorEugene Mccann, Mary Thomas, Andrew E. G. Jonas
Subject AreaSocial Science
SeriesCritical Introductions to Geography Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight24.1 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-044811
Reviews"I like this book for the above points. The authors have succeeded to stir thoughts about urbanization and to appreciate urban geography from an alternative perspective. This book would be particularly helpful to students and those involved in urbanization processes, including businesses." ( 3D Visualization World Magazine , 24 June 2015)
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentList of Figures vii List of Tables xi List of Boxes xii Acknowledgments xiv Preface xvi 1 Approaching the City 1 2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography 27 3 Production, Economy, and the City 53 4 A World of Cities 77 5 Labor and the City 100 6 The City and Social Reproduction 122 7 Governing the City: The State, Urban Planning, and Politics 141 8 Experiencing Cities 162 9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City 184 10 Nature and Environment in the City 206 11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures 229 12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics 252 13 Urban Crises 274 14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures 299 Glossary 307 References 325 Index 347
SynopsisUrban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities., Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds, Urban Geography presents a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of critical themes and conceptual ideas relating to contemporary urban geography including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Building upon a wide range of topical examples and illustrative case studies from several international cities, the text brings to light all of the key ideas, concepts, and themes most widely utilized in critical geographical approaches to contemporary urban spaces. Initial chapters offer an introduction to critical approaches to the city before exploring the evolution of contemporary global processes of urbanization and urban development. These are followed by more in-depth coverage of such topics as labor, planning, place marketing, social reproduction, nature, experience, art, culture, citizenship, and alternative urban spaces. Individual chapters strike a careful balance between a depiction of the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and an exposure of the networks, flows, and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global level. Urban Geography offers valuable insights into critical geographical approaches to the modern city, along with the diverse set of policies, practices, and challenges of contemporary urban living and its rapid movements and changes. This book s cover shows the Ashton Canal dissecting the formerly industrial area of Ancoats in Manchester, England. Urban landscapes like this one are palimpsests that speak to how cities change in tandem with social, economic, and architectural transformations over time. A heartland of 19th Century urban industrialism, Ancoats is now rebranded as New Islington and, as the contemporary apartment buildings along the canal suggest, is undergoing gentrification. Cities are always changing. This book explains how, why, where, and in whose interests.
LC Classification NumberGF125.J66 2015
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