The notion of urban analysis Robert W. Lake discusses focuses on the spatial structure of the city, its causes, and its consequences.
At issue is the city as a spatial fact: a built environment with explicit characteristics and spatial dimensions, a spatial distribution of population and land uses, a nexus of locational decisions, an interconnected system of locational advantages and disadvantages, amenities and dis-amenities.
Beginning with landmark articles in neo-classical and ecological theory, the reader covers the latest departures and developments. Separate sections cover political approaches to locational conflict, institutional influences on urban form, and recent Marxist approaches to urban analysis.
Among the topics included are community strategies in locational conflict, the political economy of place, the role of government and the courts, institutional influences in the housing market, and the relationship between urban form and capitalist development. This is a valuable introductory text for courses in urban planning, urban geography, and urban sociology.
Publications Pvt. Its scope and subject matter has been broadened,its analytical focus has been realigned and its analytical tools have been refined. The book focuses upon multifaceted themes with regard to status,growth and concepts in urban geography,urban settlement pattern of urbanization in developing countries.
The uniqueness of the book lies in managing contributions from schools from developing as well as developed counties. The contributions included in this book are indicative of some of the new perspective which urban geography have been studing for quite sometime now. The economic landscape of the city.
Urban land use : the CBD and the growth of the suburbs ; Landscapes of production -- pt. The social landscape of the city. Foundations of urban social landscapes ; Urban housing markets: sprawl, blight, and regeneration ; Segregation, race, and urban poverty ; Immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism -- pt. The political landscape of the city. Metropolitan governance and fragmentation ; Planning the better city -- pt. Cities around the world.
Chapter 1 introduces students to the four organizing traditions that have emerged through the long history of geographical thought and writing: earth science, culture-environment, location, and area analysis. Each of the four parts of this book centers on one of these geographic perspectives.
Even if students take no further work in geography, they will have come into contact with the richness and breadth of Geography and have new insights and understandings for their present and future roles as informed adults. This new edition provides students content and scope of the subfields of geography, emphasize its unifying themes, and provide the foundation for further work in their areas of interest. A useful textbook must be flexible enough in its organization to permit an instructor to adapt it to the time and subject matter constraints of a particular course.
Although Getis Introduction to Geography is designed with a one-quarter or one-semester course in mind, this text may be used in a full-year introduction to geography when employed as a point of departure for special topics and amplifications introduced by the instructor or when supplemented by additional readings and class projects.
It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation. Authors: Andrew E.
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