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With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities.

Drawing on numerous studies, first-hand anecdotes, census figures, and other statistical data, Short s work addresses the globalization of U.S. cities, the increased polarization of urban...

Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities.

The book explores the meaning of the globalizing project in cities:

• the maintaining, securing and increasing of urban economic competitiveness in a global world
• the reimagining of the city
• the rewriting of the city for both internal and external audiences
• the construction of new...

The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, "Korea: A Cartographic History "provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today s most prolific and well-respected geographers, encapsulates six hundred years of maps made by Koreans and non-Koreans alike.Largely chronological in its organization, "Korea" begins by examining the differing cartographic traditions prevalent in the early Joseon period in Korea roughly 1400 to 1600 and its temporal equivalent in early modern Europe. As one of the...

This book, first published in 1984, is an attempt to make students aware of the variety in the urban condition and to introduce them to some of the relationships operating between space and society. From the broad aim of seeking to show the relationship between urbanism and society flows a number of sub-themes, including the importance of cross-cultural comparisons and contrasts, re-distributional consequences and the role of government. This book will be of interest to first- and second-year students of urban studies and human geography.