Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction - Couverture souple

Jonas, Andrew E. G.; Mccann, Eugene; Thomas, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405189797 ISBN 13 : 9781405189798

Editeur : Blackwell Pub, 2015

Synopsis

La géographie urbaine est une introduction complète à une variété de questions relatives à la géographie urbaine contemporaine, y compris les modèles et les processus d'urbanisation, le développement urbain, l'urbanisme et les expériences de vie dans les villes modernes.

• Révèle à la fois la diversité des géographies urbaines ordinaires et les réseaux, flux et relations qui relient de plus en plus les villes et les espaces urbains à l'échelle mondiale
• Utilise la ville comme une lentille pour proposer et développer des concepts critiques qui montrent comment les processus sociaux, les relations et les structures de pouvoir plus larges changent
• Prend en compte les expériences, les vies, les pratiques, les luttes et les paroles des résidents urbains ordinaires et des groupes sociaux marginalisés plutôt que exclusivement ceux des élites urbaines
• Montre aux lecteurs comment développer des perspectives critiques sur les représentations néolibérales dominantes de la ville et explorer la grande diversité des mondes urbains

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Urban Geography presents a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of critical themes and conceptual ideas relating to contemporary urban geography including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Building upon a wide range of topical examples and illustrative case studies from several international cities, the text brings to light all of the key ideas, concepts, and themes most widely utilized in critical geographical approaches to contemporary urban spaces.

Initial chapters offer an introduction to critical approaches to the city before exploring the evolution of contemporary global processes of urbanization and urban development. These are followed by more in–depth coverage of such topics as labor, planning, place marketing, social reproduction, nature, experience, art, culture, citizenship, and alternative urban spaces. Individual chapters strike a careful balance between a depiction of the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and an exposure of the networks, flows, and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global level.

Urban Geography offers valuable insights into critical geographical approaches to the modern city, along with the diverse set of policies, practices, and challenges of contemporary urban living and its rapid movements and changes.

This book s cover shows the Ashton Canal dissecting the formerly industrial area of Ancoats in Manchester, England.  Urban landscapes like this one are palimpsests that speak to how cities change in tandem with social, economic, and architectural transformations over time.  A heartland of 19th Century urban industrialism, Ancoats is now rebranded as New Islington and, as the contemporary apartment buildings along the canal suggest, is undergoing gentrification.  Cities are always changing.  This book explains how, why, where, and in whose interests.

Biographie de l'auteur

Andrew E.G. Jonas holds a Chair in Human Geography at the University of Hull in the UK. His co–edited books include The Urban Growth Machine; Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later (1999, with David Wilson), Interrogating Alterity (2010, with Duncan Fuller and Roger Lee), and Territory, the State and Urban Politics (2012, with Andy Wood). He serves on the editorial boards of Urban Geography and Territory Politics and Governance.

Eugene McCann is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is co–editor, with Kevin Ward, of Mobile Urbanism: Cities & Policymaking in the Global Age (2011) and, with Ronan Paddison, Cities & Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism (2014).

Mary Thomas is Associate Professor in Women s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Multicultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education (2011), and co–editor of A Companion to Social Geography (2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Pub
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1405189797
• ISBN 13: 9781405189798
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 359
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible