New Perspectives In Urban Geography

Author : Sant Bahadur Singh
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : 8175330147

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New Perspectives in Urban Geography by Sant Bahadur Singh Pdf

Urban Geography has been consistently growing as a systematic branch of reographical knowing.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.

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0415191963

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Urban Geography by Michael Pacione Pdf

This text is an introduction to the study of towns and cities. The book synthesizes a wealth of material to provide a comprehensive introduction for students of urban geography, drawing on a rich blend of theoretical and empirical information, to advance their knowledge of the city. For the first time in the history of humankind, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is destined to continue. Urban places, towns and cities are of fundamental importance: for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power. Even those living beyond the administrative or functional boundaries of a town or city, will have their lifestyle influenced to some degree by a nearby or distant city.

Author : Achim Wennmann,Oliver Jütersonke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351371346

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Urban Safety and Peacebuilding by Achim Wennmann,Oliver Jütersonke Pdf

This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding. The book reflects the advances in urban safety and peacebuilding to help address the rapidly increasing risk of conflict and insecurity in cities. Specifically, it draws on contributions to the Technical Working Group on the Confluence of Urban Safety and Peacebuilding Practice, an informal expert network co-facilitated by the United Nations Office at Geneva, UN-Habitat’s Safer Cities Programme, and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. A focus on ‘sustaining peace’ serves as a framework for situating new policy responses against conflict, violence, and exclusion in the city, and for promoting a conversation across disciplinary and specialist silos. The volume thereby broadens the optic of peacebuilding practice beyond interstate and intrastate armed conflicts – and especially their aftermath – and reconnects it to the community-level origins of building peace. The analysis and practice presented here will remind those willing to work towards peaceful and inclusive cities that there are tried and tested approaches available, and a host of experts and practitioners ready to accompany those prepared to lead in their respective contexts. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of peacebuilding, urban studies, security studies, and international relations.

Author : Avril Maddrell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802202397

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New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes by Avril Maddrell Pdf

Establishing a new set of international perspectives on experiences of death, disposition and remembrance in urban environments, this book brings deathscapes – material, embodied and emotional places associated with dying and death – to life. It pushes the boundaries of established empirical and conceptual understandings of death in urban spaces through anthropological, geographical and ethnographic insights.

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780415343053

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Urban Geography by Michael Pacione Pdf

The second edition of Urban Geographycontinues to provide an authoritative and stimulating global introduction to the study of towns and cities. The text synthesizes a wealth of material to provide unrivalled depth and breadth for students of urban geography, drawing on a rich blend of theoretical and empirical information with which to advance the knowledge of the city. The new edition has been extensively revised to reflect feedback from users and to incorporate the latest research and developments in the field. The text is divided into six main parts that explain and discuss: * the field of urban geography and the importance of a global perspective * the historical growth of cities from the earliest times and the urban geography of the major world regions * the dynamics of urban structure and land-use change in Western cities * economy, society and politics in the Western city * the economic, social, political and environmental challenge faced by the third world city * an overview on the future of cities and cities of the future. Featuring over one hundred and eighty case study and explanatory boxes, this book draws insights from across the globe and contains a glossary of key terms and words, chapter summaries, key points, study questions and annotated further reading.

Author : Chiranji S. Yadav
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:631078808

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Perspectives in urban geography by Chiranji S. Yadav Pdf

Author : Mark Jayne,Kevin Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317644477

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Urban Theory by Mark Jayne,Kevin Ward Pdf

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities. The introduction outlines the development of urban theory over the past two hundred years and discusses significant theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges facing the field of urban studies in the context of an increasing globally inter-connected world. The chapters explore twenty-four topics, which are new additions to the urban theoretical debate, highlighting their relationship to long established concerns that continue to have intellectual purchase, and which also engage with rich new and emerging avenues for debate. Each chapter considers the genealogy of the topic at hand and also includes case studies which explain key terms or provide empirical examples to guide the reader to a better understanding of how theory adds to our understanding of the complexities of urban life. This book offers a critical and assessable introduction to original and groundbreaking urban theory and will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, planning, political science and urban studies.

Author : Richard Peet,Nigel Thrift
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134998371

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New Models in Geography by Richard Peet,Nigel Thrift Pdf

Two decades after the publication of the seminal Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley & Peter Haggett, this major collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the book ranges from cultural to economic and urban geography. The authors explore the connections between political economy and geographical thought in each area, with the emphasis lying on the processes of material production and social reproduction.

Author : David T. Herbert,David Marshall Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019152274

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Social Problems and the City by David T. Herbert,David Marshall Smith Pdf

This second edition features twenty new studies that review a wide range of social problems particular to the city. Focusing on the 1980s, experts here discuss such issues as health care, educational change, housing, welfare, the elderly, unemployment, crime, drugs, environmental problems, and gender-based inequality.

Author : SHAO Peiren
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789819921119

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New Perspectives on Geography of Media by SHAO Peiren Pdf

Based on the ancient Chinese concept of the unity of Heaven and Man (天人合一, ‘tian ren he yi’), guided by principles governing the connections and interdependencies between Heaven, Earth, Man, and the media, and in accord with the coexistence of these four elements in balance and in harmony, this monograph outlines the scope of the study, fundamental concepts and theories, and future directions of research in the interdisciplinary field of the geography of media. The author delves deeply into the themes of time, space, place, landscape, and scale to introduce readers to a wide array of intriguing concepts that add new dimensions to this relatively new academic field. In addition, this monograph presents a history of media geography as it has evolved in the West and in China over the past several decades, and introduces principles and values from traditional Chinese culture that shed light on the nature, direction, and significance of media studies and communication research now being conducted around the globe. Intended readership: professional scholars, graduates, and general readers.

Author : OECD,European Commission
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264376663

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OECD Urban Studies Cities in the World A New Perspective on Urbanisation by OECD,European Commission Pdf

Cities are not only home to around half of the global population but also major centers of economic activity and innovation. Yet, so far there has been no consensus of what a city really is. Substantial differences in the way cities, metropolitan, urban, and rural areas are defined across countries hinder robust international comparisons and an accurate monitoring of SDGs. The report Cities in the World: A New Perspective on Urbanisation addresses this void and provides new insights on urbanisation by applying for the first time two new definitions of human settlements to the entire globe: the Degree of Urbanisation and the Functional Urban Area.

Author : Andrew E. G. Jonas,Eugene McCann,Mary Thomas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405189804

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Urban Geography by Andrew E. G. Jonas,Eugene McCann,Mary Thomas Pdf

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 of urban elites Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds

Author : John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317095149

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Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society by John Urry Pdf

Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives, but also to point to new theories and methods by which such lives have to be researched and examined. Such new theories and methods are relevant both to rethinking 'transport' studies as such but are also recasting 'societal' studies as 'transport' so that it comes out of the ghetto and enters mainstream social science.

Author : William K. Tabb,Larry Sawers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039559765

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Marxism and the Metropolis by William K. Tabb,Larry Sawers Pdf

Author : Forrest, Ray,Ren, Julie
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529205527

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The City in China by Forrest, Ray,Ren, Julie Pdf

In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper “The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment”. This essay provided an agenda for the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, which formed the basis of urban research for decades. Given that China’s urban centres now occupy the spotlight that once belonged to American cities, Park’s essay is a platform and point of departure for this volume, which gathers together reflections from a broad range of urban China specialists to consider Park’s (ir)relevance today – for cities in China, for questions about the social life of the city and for urban research more generally. Essential for a broad range of urban studies scholars, this book is an invaluable teaching resource and a useful tool for policy-makers and planners.