Centrality and cities
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Centrality and cities
（Routledge library editions, . The city . Urban geography）
Routledge, 2007, c1977
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1977
Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-184) and indexes
ISBN for The city: 9780415413183, 0415413184; ISBN for Urban geography: 9780415419345, 0415419344
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future. He sees centrality as a mental projection on to space, and discusses the concept in relation to three types of its manifestation in spatial terms: the city as centre of a tributary region; the centres and central areas of cities themselves; and the city considered as a centre or gateway for other distant regions, often overseas.
This book should do much to unravel the funamental similarities between cities of the world while recognizing the myriad variations upon a common theme.
This book was first published in 1977.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Conjectures on centrality 1. Centre genesis 2. Evolution of central areas 3. In downtown (1): the framework of order 4. In downtown (2): Measurement, accessibility, change 5. Centre-periphery contrasts 6. Three theory types as variations of city centrality 7. Centrality, perception and the future 8. Envoi
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