Urban geography
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Bibliographic Information
Urban geography
Wiley, c2004
- : international ed
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction to Cities and Urban Geography. 1. An Introduction To Urban Geography. 2. The Origins And Development Of Cities. Part II. Metropolitan Systems. 3. The Evolution Of The American Urban System. 4. Globalization And The Urban System. 5. Cities in an Information Economy. Part III. The Economic Landscape of the City . 6. Urban Land Use. The Changing Functions of Central Business Districts and Suburbanization. 7. Landscapes of Production 218. Part IV. The Social Landscape of the City. 8. Slicing the Urban Pie. Models of Social Geography. 9. Urban Housing. Blight, Sprawl and Regeneration. 10. Segregation, "Race," and Urban Poverty. 11. Immigration, Ethnicity, and Urbanism 393. Part V. The Political Landscape of the City. 12. Metropolitan Governance and Fragmentation. 13. Planning the Better City. Part VI. Cities Around the World. 14. Cities in the Developed World. 15. Cities in the Less Developed World. 16. Regional Variations in Urban Structure and Form.
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