Cities in Space: City as Place

ISBN-13: 9781853464010 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 388 str.

Colin J. Thomas; David T. Herbert; Da Herbert Prof

Opis

This book, first published under the title Urban Geography - A First Approach serves as an introduction to the field of urban geography and offers a balance between studies of systems of cities on the one hand and specific cities on the other. It is designed to provide a broad introduction to the study of urban geography as part of a discipline which has experienced rapid change in the past two decades and also to demonstrate ways in which geographers have become far more involved in the more general interdisciplinary field of urban studies.

Spis treści

Preface, 1. The concerns of urban geography, 2. Urban origins and change over time, 3. Third World cities: some general characteristics, 4. Understanding the urban system, 5. The urban economy, 6. The system of control: local government, local governance and the local state, 7. Transport issues in the city, 8. Urban services, 9. The residential mosaic, 10. Minority groups and segregated areas, 11. The city as a social world, 12. Social problems and the city, 13. Urban trends and urban policies, References, Subject index

O autorze

Herbert, Prof David; Thomas, Dr Colin