Screen LibraryUrban geography
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
| Published: |
Wiley,
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| Publisher Address: | [Hoboken, NJ] |
| Publication Dates: | 2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 484 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0471451584 (WIE) 047135998X |
| Index Number: | C912 |
| CLC: |
C912.8 K915 |
| Call Number: | K915/K176 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Pt. 1. Introduction to cities and urban geography -- 1. An introduction to urban geography -- 2. The origins and development of cities -- Pt. 2. Metropolitan systems -- 3. Evolution of the American urban system -- 4. Globalization and the urban system -- 5. Telecommunications and the city -- Pt. 3. Economic landscape of the city -- 6. Urban land use, the central business district and the growth of the suburbs -- 7. Landscapes of production -- Pt. 4. The social landscape of the city -- 8. Slicing the urban pie, models of social geography -- 9. Urban housing markets, sprawl, blight, and regeneration --10. Segregation, race, and urban poverty -- 11. Immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism -- Pt. 5. The political landscape of the city -- 12. Metropolitan governance and fragmentation -- 13. Planning the better city -- Pt. 6. 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. |