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Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction
Andrew E. G. Jonas
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Description for Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction
Paperback. Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Series: Critical Introductions to Geography. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 602.
Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities.
Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities.
- Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale
- Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing
- Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those ... Read more
- Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Critical Introductions to Geography
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405189798
SKU
V9781405189798
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Ref
99-2
About Andrew E. G. Jonas
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction
“I like this book for the above points. The authors have succeeded to stir thoughts about urbanization and to appreciate urban geography from an alternative perspective. This book would be particularly helpful to students and those involved in urbanization processes, including businesses.” (3D Visualization World Magazine, 24 June 2015)