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"Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexi...
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Wiley-Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Malden, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Wiley-Blackwell companions to geography
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| Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444395105 |
| Summary: |
"Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexity and diversity and the processes and structures that bind them together reach out across the globe. This volume considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. Whilst considering established themes, such as urban divisions and diff |
| Item Description: | Revised edition of: A companion to the city, 2000. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (786 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781444395112 (e-book) 1444395114 (e-book) 9781444361711 (electronic bk.) 1444361716 (electronic bk.) 9781444395105 (electronic bk.) 1444395106 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | HT111 |
| CLC: | C912.81 |
| Contents: | Part I. City materialities -- part II. City mobilities -- part III. City affect -- part IV. City publics and cultures -- part V. City divisions and differences -- part VI. City politics and planning. |