The Urban Order: An Introduction to Urban Geography (Group Speech Technology; 1)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
155786361X
ISBN 13
9781557863614
Category
300-309 Sociology
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
Pages
516
Subject
Cities and towns. Urban economics. Sociology, Urban.
Abstract
* A triple perspective -- the city and economy; the city and society; the city and power. * Includes chapters on race, ethnicity and the city; and on gender, space and power. * Unites political, economic and cultural perspectives. * Examples range from all over the world.
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Publisher Synopsis
"The strengths of this text are its breadth of coverage of the main debates in the field, the authora s continuing and lively engagement with his subject and his genuine attempts to cross paradigms in discussion of what constitutes different understandings of urban orders. The comparative material... is a welcome change from the usual northern hemispheric focus of texts written in English." Urban Policy and Research "The first thing to say about this text is that it is clearly aimed at undergraduate students... Short and his publishers have put in a great deal of effort to ensure the booka s accessibility. At a time when the demands placed upon students are growing, the ease with which information can be traced is an increasingly important consideration. This textbook achieves this remarkably effectively." Paul Teedon, The Geographical Journal. "This is an excellent book and has relevance for all academic fields concerned with urban dynamics. As an introduction to, and overview of, urban events during this last century it is thorough and presented in a very readable and accessible form." Lone Poulsen, University of Witwatersrand
"The strengths of this text are its breadth of coverage of the main debates in the field, the authora s continuing and lively engagement with his subject and his genuine attempts to cross paradigms in discussion of what constitutes different understandings of urban orders. The comparative material... is a welcome change from the usual northern hemispheric focus of texts written in English." Urban Policy and Research "The first thing to say about this text is that it is clearly aimed at undergraduate students... Short and his publishers have put in a great deal of effort to ensure the booka s accessibility. At a time when the demands placed upon students are growing, the ease with which information can be traced is an increasingly important consideration. This textbook achieves this remarkably effectively." Paul Teedon, The Geographical Journal. "This is an excellent book and has relevance for all academic fields concerned with urban dynamics. As an introduction to, and overview of, urban events during this last century it is thorough and presented in a very readable and accessible form." Lone Poulsen, University of Witwatersrand
Biblio Notes
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Short
ISBN: 155786361X 9781557863614 1557863601 9781557863607
OCLC Number: 60155995
Description: 352 pages : 70 half-tones, 64 figures, 10 tables
Contents: Part 1 The city and economy: cities and economic development; the urbanization of the economy; the city and the global economy; the political economy of urbanization; capital, labour and the city --
case study 1 (part 1); capital, labour and the city --
case study 1 (part 2); yuppies, yuffies and the new urban order --
case study 2. Part 2 The city and society --
the housing market; the social arena; life in the city; the political arena; residential mobility in the city --
case study 3; gender, space and power --
case study 4; race, ethnicity and the city --
case study 5. Part 3 The production of the city: city as investment; city as text; city images; reconstructing the image of a city --
case study 6; conflict and compromise in the built environment --
case study 7; Postscript --
Barcelona.
Responsibility: John Short (Syracuse University, New York, USA).
All Authors / Contributors: John Short
ISBN: 155786361X 9781557863614 1557863601 9781557863607
OCLC Number: 60155995
Description: 352 pages : 70 half-tones, 64 figures, 10 tables
Contents: Part 1 The city and economy: cities and economic development; the urbanization of the economy; the city and the global economy; the political economy of urbanization; capital, labour and the city --
case study 1 (part 1); capital, labour and the city --
case study 1 (part 2); yuppies, yuffies and the new urban order --
case study 2. Part 2 The city and society --
the housing market; the social arena; life in the city; the political arena; residential mobility in the city --
case study 3; gender, space and power --
case study 4; race, ethnicity and the city --
case study 5. Part 3 The production of the city: city as investment; city as text; city images; reconstructing the image of a city --
case study 6; conflict and compromise in the built environment --
case study 7; Postscript --
Barcelona.
Responsibility: John Short (Syracuse University, New York, USA).
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