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Urban Geography
About this book
Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of Urban Geography
The leading undergraduate textbook on the subject, Urban Geography covers the origins, historical development, and contemporary challenges of cities and metropolitan areas around the world. Incorporating the most recent research in urban studies, authors David H. Kaplan and Steven R. Holloway provide an overview of the dynamic field, introduce key elements of urban theory and methodology, analyze issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism, and more.
Exploring the urban experience in a global context, 16 student-friendly chapters address urbanization processes, industrial urbanization, discrimination in the housing market, gentrification, metropolitan governance, urban planning, geographical and political fragmentation, urban immigration, urban-economic restructuring, and more. Each chapter includes an introductory road map, learning objectives, definitions of key terms, discussion questions, and suggestions for research topics and activities.
The fourth edition of Urban Geography contains two entirely new chapters on urban transportation and the relationship between cities and the environment, including climate change and natural disasters. New discussion of the impact of COVID-19 and other health aspects of cities is accompanied by new data, new figures, new themes, and new pedagogical tools. In this edition, the authors present traditional models of urban social space and new factors that organize intra-urban space, such as globalization and postmodernism.
Examining cities in the developed world and in less developed regions, Urban Geography, Fourth Edition, is the ideal textbook for Urban Geography classes and related courses in Urban Studies, Sociology, and Political Science programs.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Changing Field of Urban Geography
- Chapter 2: The Origins and Development of Cities
- Chapter 3: The Evolution of the American Urban System: Origins Through Industrialization
- Chapter 4: Economic Eras and the Urban System: Industrialization, Decline, and Globalization
- Chapter 5: Urban Land Use, the Central Business District, Gentrification, and the Growth of Suburbs
- Chapter 6: Foundations of Urban Social Landscapes
- Chapter 7: Urban Housing Markets: Sprawl, Blight, and Regeneration
- Chapter 8: Segregation, Race, and Urban Poverty
- Chapter 9: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Urbanism
- Chapter 10: Metropolitan Governance and Fragmentation
- Chapter 11: Planning the Better City
- Chapter 12: Urban Transportation
- Chapter 13: The Urban Environment
- Chapter 14: Cities in the Developed World
- Chapter 15: Cities in the Less Developed and Newly Developed World
- Chapter 16: Regional Variations in Urban Structure and Form in the Less Developed World
- Index
- End User License Agreement