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Subject(s)

• Cities and towns [Browse]
• Sociology, Urban [Browse]

Related name

• Paddison, Ronan [Browse]

Summary note

This handbook is a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary and up-to-date account of the urban condition, and of the theories through which the structure, development and changing character of the city is understood.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Contents; PREFACE; Notes on Contributors; 1 Studying Cities; Part I IDENTIFYING THE CITY; 2 Defining the City; 3 Urban Ecology; 4 Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities; Part II THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT; 5 The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico-Geographical Approach; 6 Housing in the Twentieth Century; 7 Transport and the City; 8 Managing Sustainable Urban Environments; Part III THE CITY AS PEOPLE; 9 Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization; 10 Social Segregation and Social Polarization; 11 Race Relations in the City; 12 Communities in the City
• 13 Women, Men, Cities14 Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison; Part IV THE CITY AS ECONOMY; 15 Urban Scale Economies; 16 Cities in the Global Economy; 17 The Post-fordist City; 18 The Post-Industrial City; 19 The New Urban Economies; 20 The Growth of Urban Informal Economies; Part V THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY; 21 Urban Governance; 22 Cities and Services: a Post-Welfarist Analysis; 23 Social Policy and the City; Part VI POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES; 24 Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism; 25 Planning, Power and Conflict
• 26 Power, Discourses and City TrajectoriesPart VII CITIES IN TRANSITION; 27 Cities in Pacific Asia; 28 Post-Socialist Cities in Flux; 29 The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: From Dependency to Marginality; Index

ISBN

• 1-281-25146-1
• 1-84860-837-3
• 9786611251468
• 1-84787-663-3

OCLC

• 437202913
• 432028318
• 45868171

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