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Author:   Phil Steinberg ,  Rob Shields ,  Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ,  Hugh Bartling
Publisher:   University of Georgia Press
Imprint:   University of Georgia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780820329642

ISBN 10:   0820329649
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 May 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Language:   English

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"What Is a City? offers sensitive and nuanced explorations of the urban approached through themes of nature, mobility, community, and memory. This is a technically adept, keenly observed, and emotionally gripping work, standing at the cutting edge of urban analysis, interpretive method, and geographic conceptualization. - Robert W. Lake, author of Locational Conflict """"What Is a City? is a thematically and conceptually unified collection of essays about New Orleans and also about transcendent urban questions. I like this book."""" - Richard Schein, editor of Landscape and Race in the United States"

What Is a City? offers sensitive and nuanced explorations of the urban approached through themes of nature, mobility, community, and memory. This is a technically adept, keenly observed, and emotionally gripping work, standing at the cutting edge of urban analysis, interpretive method, and geographic conceptualization. - Robert W. Lake, author of Locational Conflict What Is a City? is a thematically and conceptually unified collection of essays about New Orleans and also about transcendent urban questions. I like this book. - Richard Schein, editor of Landscape and Race in the United States

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"Phil Steinberg is an associate professor of geography at Florida State University. He is the author of ""The Social Construction of the Ocean"" and coauthor of ""Managing the Infosphere."" Rob Shields is a Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Departments of Sociology and Art and Design at the University of Alberta. His books include ""Places on the Margin"" and ""Lefebvre, Love and Struggle."""

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