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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.

What is money legitimately worth?
Is being fair actually "fair"?
What does the "Ant and the Grasshopper" fable really teach us?
What keeps a tenant from staying rent-free in a home forever?
Is regulation good or bad for us?
What do politicians and betting on sports games have in common?
This witty and informative revelation of how the world really works will...

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...

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air, miasmas, airborne pathogens, beneficial thermal conditions, ideal climates and climate determinism. It uncovers inventive and entirely viable attempts to design large buildings, hospitals, theatres and academic buildings through the 19th and early 20th centuries, which use the configuration of...

As turbulent social and economic changes swept the South in the first half of the twentieth century, education became the flashpoint. Ann Short Chirhart's study is the first to analyze such modernizing events in Georgia. She shows how these changes affected the creation of the state's public school system and cast its teachers in a crucial role as mediators between transformation and tradition.

Depicting Georgia's steps toward modernity through teachers' professional and cultural work and the educational reforms they advocated, Chirhart presents a unique perspective on the...