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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ronan Paddison , Bill LeverPublisher: Sage Publications Ltd Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 1.090kg ISBN: 9780803976955ISBN 10: 080397695 Pages: 512 Publication Date: 22 December 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsStudying Cities - Ronan Paddison PART ONE: IDENTIFYING THE CITY Defining the City - William H Frey and Zachary Zimmer Urban Ecology - Peter Saunders Impartial Maps - Hana Wirth-Nesher Reading and Writing Cities PART TWO: THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT The Physical Form of Cities - J W R Whitehand A Historico-Geographical Approach Housing in the Twentieth Century - Ray Forrest and Peter Williams Transport and the City - Tom Hart Managing Sustainable Urban Environments - Robert Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp PART THREE: THE CITY AS PEOPLE Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization - Tony Champion Social Segregation and Social Polarization - Chris Hamnett Race Relations in the City - Joe T Darden Communities in the City - Ronan Paddison Women, Men, Cities - Linda M McDowell Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe - Paula D McClain A Comparison PART FOUR: THE CITY AS ECONOMY Urban Scale Economies - J Vernon Henderson Cities in the Global Economy - Saskia Sassen The Post-Fordist City - W F Lever The Post-Industrial City - Doug V Shaw The New Urban Economies - Donald McNeill and Aidan While The Growth of Urban Informal Economies - Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank PART FIVE: THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY Urban Governance - Michael Goldsmith Cities and Services - Stephen J Bailey A Post-Welfarist Analysis Social Policy and the City - Susanne MacGregor PART SIX: POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism - Louis Albrechts and William Denayer Planning, Power and Conflict - James Simmie Power, Discourse and City Trajectories - Mark Boyle and Robert J Rogerson PART SEVEN: CITIES IN TRANSITION Cities in Pacific Asia - David W Smith Post-Socialist Cities in Flux - Grigoriy Kostinskiy The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa - Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani From Dependency to MarginalityReviewsAuthor InformationRonan Paddison is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. His research interests focus on the political processes driving urban change and, in particular, under what conditions local participation can contribute to the making of more inclusive and democratic cities. Recent projects have included the role of community participation in the installation of public art, and the limitations to public participation in the post-political city. He is Managing Editor of Urban Studies and of Space and Polity. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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