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Key Concepts in Urban Geography: Key Concepts in Human Geography

Autor Alan Latham, Derek McCormack, Kim McNamara, Donald McNeill
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 dec 2008
"This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline."
- Roger Keil, co-Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"The city is an obvious but confounding object of geographical analysis; urban structure and life are shaped by an astounding array of social, economic, and political dynamics. This volume embraces these complexities of city form in a wide-ranging, readable, well-informed, and highly interdisciplinary analysis of key topics in urban studies. With its fresh approach, this book provides an accessible entry point for the newcomer to urban geography, yet also delivers creative insights for those with greater familiarity."
- Professor Steven K. Herbert, University of Washington

Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Urban Geography provides a cutting-edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in urban geography. Involving detailed and expansive discussions, the book includes:
  • An introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the recent developments in the field.
  • Over 20 key concept entries with comprehensive explanations, definitions and evolutions of the subject.
  • A glossary, figures, diagrams and suggested further reading.
This is an ideal companion text for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in urban geography and covers the expected staples of the subdiscipline from global cities and urban nature to transnational urbanism and virtuality.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412930420
ISBN-10: 1412930421
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Seria Key Concepts in Human Geography

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline.

The city is an obvious but confounding object of geographical analysis; urban structure and life are shaped by an astounding array of social, economic, and political dynamics. This volume embraces these complexities of city form in a wide-ranging, readable, well-informed, and highly interdisciplinary analysis of key topics in urban studies. With its fresh approach, this book provides an accessible entry point for the newcomer to urban geography, yet also delivers creative insights for those with greater familiarity.

Cuprins

Introduction
I Location and movement
1.1 Centrality
1.2 Mobility
1.3 Global Cities
1.4 Transnational urbanism
II Constructions
2.1 Nature
2.2 Materiality
2.3 Infrastructure
2.4 Architecture
III Envisioning and experience
3.1 Diagram
3.2 Photography
3.3 Body
3.4 Virtuality
3.5 Surveillance
IV Social and Political Spaces
4.1 Segregation
4.2 Urban politics
4.3 Community
V Sites and practices
5.1 Consumption
5.2 Media
5.3 Public space
5.4 Commemoration

Notă biografică

Alan Latham teaches in the Department of Geography at University College London. His research is focused on urban sociality, corporeal mobility and public space. Writing on topics ranging from urban cycling and recreational running, cultural economies and neighbourhood change, to the overseas experiences of transnational migrants, his work explores the materialities and practices that generate distinctive forms of urban life. He has published widely in edited collections and international journals including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environment and Planning D,Cultural Geographies and Urban Studies. He is the co-author of Key Concepts in Urban Geography.

Descriere

An accessible and cutting edge introduction to - and overview of - the key concepts defining contemporary urban geography in 20 lively and informative essays.