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Urban geography
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Urban Geography by Tim Hall; Heather BarrettISBN: 9781138101821
Publication Date: 2017-11-27
This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation in urban geography through its major themes to contemporary and pressing issues. The text critically synthesizes key literatures in a variety of areas.
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Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction by Andrew E. G. Jonas; Eugene McCann; Mary ThomasISBN: 9781405189804
Publication Date: 2015-03-09
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. The authors reveal both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale. This book uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts.
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Urban Political Geographies: A Global Perspective by Ugo Rossi; Alberto VanoloISBN: 9780857028839
Publication Date: 2011-12-06
This compelling book scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to provide readers with a clear understanding of the relationship between political, spatial and economic issues on the urban environment. Taking a truly global analysis, the book uses international comparative case studies from cities across the world including London, Beijing, Austin, and Vancouver. It draws on ideas and theories from human geography, politics, sociology, economics, and development.
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Beyond the Metropolis: Urban Geography as if Small Cities Mattered by Benjamin Ofori-Amoah (Editor)ISBN: 9780761835851
Publication Date: 2006-11-08
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. Students and researchers as well as city administrators will find the book useful.
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The Urban Geography Reader by Nick Fyfe (Editor); Judith Kenny (Editor)ISBN: 9780415307017
Publication Date: 2005-06-23
Capturing the diversity of scholarship in the field of urban geography, this reader presents a stimulating selection of articles and excerpts by leading figures. Organized around seven themes, it addresses the changing economic, social, cultural, and technological conditions of contemporary urbanization and the range of personal and public responses.
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The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles by Nadia AmorosoISBN: 9780415551793
Publication Date: 2010-06-23
Nadia Amoroso takes statistical urban data and explores how they could be transformed into innovative new maps. The "unseen" elements of the city are examined in groundbreaking images throughout the book, which are complemented by interviews.
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The Terrorscape: Geography of Urban Terror Risk by Kristine EganISBN: 9781593323264
Publication Date: 2008-12-01
Egan brings together considerations of terrorism's potential targets and probable consequences and hazards research. She provides a four-phase Terrorscape Analysis Model for analyzing the spatial distribution of risk, exposure, vulnerability, and environmental equity.
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Making Sense of Cities: A Geographical Survey by Blair BadcockISBN: 9781444118803
Publication Date: 2014-04-23
Making Sense of Cities provides an up-to-date, vibrant and accessible introduction to urban geography. It offers students a sense of the patterns and processess of urbanization and the spatial organisation of cities, recognizing the significance of globalization.
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Imagining Global Amsterdam: History, Culture, and Geography in a World City by Marco de Waard (Editor)ISBN: 9789048515134
Publication Date: 2012-02-10
Imagining Global Amsterdam brings together new essays on the image of Amsterdam as articulated in film, literature, art, and urban discourse, considered within the context of globalization and its impact on urban culture. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, and united by a broad humanities approach, this collection forms a multifaceted inquiry into the dynamic relationship between Amsterdam, globalization, and the urban imaginary.
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