{"product_id":"urban-geography-isbn-9781119930273","title":"Urban Geography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProvides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of Urban Geography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leading undergraduate textbook on the subject, \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e covers the origins, historical development, and contemporary challenges of cities and metropolitan areas around the world. Incorporating the most recent research in urban studies, authors David H. Kaplan and Steven R. Holloway provide an overview of the dynamic field, introduce key elements of urban theory and methodology, analyze issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the urban experience in a global context, 16 student-friendly chapters address urbanization processes, industrial urbanization, discrimination in the housing market, gentrification, metropolitan governance, urban planning, geographical and political fragmentation, urban immigration, urban-economic restructuring, and more. Each chapter includes an introductory road map, learning objectives, definitions of key terms, discussion questions, and suggestions for research topics and activities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourth edition of \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e contains two entirely new chapters on urban transportation and the relationship between cities and the environment, including climate change and natural disasters. New discussion of the impact of COVID-19 and other health aspects of cities is accompanied by new data, new figures, new themes, and new pedagogical tools. In this edition, the authors present traditional models of urban social space and new factors that organize intra-urban space, such as globalization and postmodernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining cities in the developed world and in less developed regions, \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography, Fourth Edition\u003c\/i\u003e, is the ideal textbook for Urban Geography classes and related courses in Urban Studies, Sociology, and Political Science programs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 An Introduction to the Changing Field of Urban Geography 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy We Study Cities 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow We Study Cities 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Field of Urban Geography 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 1.1 Bright Lights, Big Cities 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origin and Evolution of Urban Geography 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApproaches to Urban Geographic Research 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStreams of Urban Geographic Research 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpatial Analysis 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist Urban Geography and Urban Political Economy 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Social Theory in Urban Geography 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminist Urban Geography 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodern Urban Geography 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNature and Urban Geography 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining Cities 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRural–Urban Continuum 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is the Spatial Extent of Cities? 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 1.2 Micropolitan Areas 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to This Textbook 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 the Origins and Development of Cities 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Are Cities? 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreconditions to Urban Formation 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 2.1 Cities without Agriculture? 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcology, Technology, and Power 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheories of Urban Origins 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterns of Early Urbanization 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocations of Early Cities 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiffusion of Urbanization 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 2.2 Uncovering Lost Cities 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Evolution and Early Economic Imperatives: Traditional Cities 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Early City- States: Sumeria 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther Ancient Cities 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImperial Cities 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 2.3 The Collective Alternative 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities as Engines of Economic Growth: Capitalism, Industrialism, and Urbanization 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 2.4 Death of a City 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Trading Cities 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 2.5 The First Ghettos 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustrial Cities 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 2.6 Designing Spaces: Bastide Cities and the Grand Manner 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 the Evolution of the American Urban System: Origins Through Industrialization 59\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Systems and Urban Hierarchies 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRank- Size Rule and Primate Cities 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMercantilism and the Development of the Colonial Urban System 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 3.1 America’s Anti- Urban Bias 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 3.2 Central Place Theory 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Eras of North American Urbanization 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Eras, Transportation Networks, and the Evolution of the US Urban System 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrontier Mercantilism (1790–1830s) 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 3.3 The Erie Canal 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Industrial Capitalism and Iron Rails (1830s–1880s) 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational Industrial Capitalism and Steel Rails (1880s–1920s) 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Economic Eras and the Urban System: Industrialization, Decline, and Globalization 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1920s–1970s: Mature Industrial Capitalism 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutomobiles 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 4.1 The Interstate Highway System 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Depression 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAirplanes 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1970s–Present: Post- Industrial Neoliberal Capitalism 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Urban System in Crisis 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRise of the Service and Information Economies 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHigh Technology and the Creative Economy 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization and the Global Urban System 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapitalism, Power, and World Cities 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe World City Hierarchy 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Global City 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Network of World Cities: Global Interconnections 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tourist World City 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTelecommunications, Interconnectivity, and World Cities 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDispersal or Concentration? 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTelecommunications and Financial Markets 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTelecommunications and Urban Society 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInternet Connectivity and Cloud Data Infrastructure 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 4.2 The Gravity Model in Local and Regional and Global Context 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Urban Land Use, the Central Business District, Gentrification, And the Growth of Suburbs 120\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward a Model of Land Use 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Functions 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModel of Land Value 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Central Business District 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManufacturing in the Frame 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResidential Users 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 5.1 Health and Urban Geography: The Impact of COVID- 19 on Downtowns 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevitalizing Downtowns 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCentral Business Districts 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 5.2 Downtown Casinos 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerica’s New Downtowns 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevitalizing Neighborhoods: Gentrification 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFive Waves of Gentrification 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuburban Changes 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 5.3 Megalopolis 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Foundations of Urban Social Landscapes 151\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcological Approach to Cities 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Community Lost”: European Perspectives on Cities 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Chicago School of Sociology 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 6.1 Rebutting the “Community Lost” Perspective 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 6.2 Health and Urban Geography: Chicago and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Models of Urban Spatial Structure 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBurgess Concentric Zone Model 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoyt Sector Model 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore Complex Models 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Area Analysis and Factorial Ecology 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 6.3 Wirth’s “Urbanism as a Way of Life” 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban Mosaic 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Urban Social Space: Globalization and Cities of Difference 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization: General Trends 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElements of the Global City 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“In Between” Neighborhoods in the Global City 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLos Angeles School Urbanism 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities of Difference 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Urban Housing Markets: Sprawl, Blight, and Regeneration 179\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing and Housing Markets 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSectors of Housing Tenure 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing Markets: Demand 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 7.1 Hedonic House Price Models 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 7.2 NIMBY, LULUs, and YIMBY: How Homeowners React to Adjacent Land Uses 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing Markets: Supply 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing Market Geographies and Neighborhood Change 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Ecology and Housing Markets: Invasion and Succession 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiltering and Vacancy Chains 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife‐ Cycle Notions of Neighborhood Change 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGovernment Involvement in Housing Markets 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecuring Home Ownership through Loan Guarantees 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Secondary Mortgage Market: A New System of Housing Finance 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePromoting Home Ownership to Address Inequality: Promise and Peril 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnequal Access to Housing 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReal Estate Agents and Differentiated Access 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscrimination in Lending 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccumulated Impacts of Housing Market Discrimination 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 7.3 Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuburban Housing and Postwar Sprawl 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSupply and Demand Factors 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 7.4 Health and Urban Geography: Sprawl Leads to Depression 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSprawl and the Federal Government: Housing Finance 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSprawl and the Federal Government: Freeways and Automobility 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Blight” and Inner‐ City Housing 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Postwar Redevelopment Pressures 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Housing Dynamics of Redevelopment 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisplacement and Public Housing 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Segregation, Race, and Urban Poverty 210\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCurrent Patterns of Racial Residential Segregation 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCensus 2020 Figures 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 8.1 Types and Measures of Segregation 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecent Change 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Causes Segregation? 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace and the North American Ghetto 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “First” North American Ghetto 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 8.2 Anti- Black White Mob Violence: 1919 Red Summer and the 1921\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTulsa Race Massacre 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostwar Institutionalized Ghettos 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoverty and the City and Beyond 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpatial Concentration of Urban Poverty 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsequences of Concentrated Poverty: Neighborhood Effects 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 8.3 Health and Urban Geography: Race, Poverty, and COVID- 19 Health 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponding to Urban Poverty 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWar on Poverty 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrenchment 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Immigration, Ethnicity, and Urbanism 244\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefinitions of Immigrants 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Era of Immigration and US Urbanization 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Catholic Arrivals 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 9.1 Strangers From a Different Shore: Chinese and Japanese Migration to the United States 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New European Immigration 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ethnic Kaleidoscope of Today 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLatino Migration and Its Impact on Cities 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 9.2 Ethnic Diversity Within Canadian Cities 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMexicans 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCubans 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 9.3 The Creation of Ethnic Economies 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePuerto Ricans 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLatino Influences 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Asian Immigration 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Orientation and Some Models of Asian Segregation 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsian Indians 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndochinese 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKoreans 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsian Influences 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Metropolitan Governance and Fragmentation 279\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Governance and the Growth of Services 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpanding Urban Services 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 10.1 Health and Urban Geography: Public Health and the City 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 10.2 Street Plans in Early America 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinancing the City 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Governs the City? 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStages in Urban Governance 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower in the City 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Fragmentation in the Metropolis 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncreasing Fragmentation 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Positive View of Metropolitan Fragmentation 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiscal Disparities 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCountering the Fragmented Metropolis 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnnexations 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetropolitan Government 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 10.3 Metropolitanization and Language in Montreal 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Planning the Better City 305\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the Case for Planning 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAesthetics 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEfficiency 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Equity Planning 309\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaintaining Property Values 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnvironmental Protection 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevelopment of Modern Planning 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVisionaries and the Urban Ideal 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 11.1 Health and Urban Geography: Planning a Healthier City 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLegal Basis for Planning 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 11.2 Planning Rights in Other Countries 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrowth of Planning as a Profession in the United States 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Nature of Planning 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComprehensive Plans and Tools of Modern Planning 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 11.3 The Search for Fair Share Housing in New Jersey 326\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElements and Steps in Comprehensive Plan Development 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZoning 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems with Zoning and Responses 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrowth Management 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 338\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 339\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Urban Transportation 341\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Transportation and Changes in Urban Form 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Walking City 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorsecar and Streetcar City 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecreational Auto Era 346\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreeway Auto Era 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransportation Policy Principles and Actors 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinciples of Transportation and Costs and Benefits 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLevels of Governance 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransportation Behavior 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTravel Types 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 12.1 Health and Urban Geography: Urban Transportation in the Time of COVID 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModes of Transportation in Commuting and Other Forms of Travel 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 12.2 Building a Sustainable Transportation Network 360\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Aspects of Transportation 363\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccess 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 12.3 The Long Road Home (and to Work) 366\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisplacement 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 the Urban Environment 372\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptual Foundations 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Environmental Kuznets Curve 373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCity–Nature Dialectic 374\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Political Ecology 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealms of Urban Nature 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWater 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 13.1 Health and Urban Geography: Urban Political Ecology and Water in Flint, Michigan 378\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Air 383\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 13.2 Health and Urban Geography: Canadian Wildfires and US Air Quality 384\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 13.3 Health and Urban Geography: Killer Smog 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGarbage and Solid Wastes 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnergy 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Hazards and Disasters 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlooding 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHurricanes (Typhoons, Cyclones) 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarthquakes 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeat 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWildfires 396\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities and Climate Change 398\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 398\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Cities in the Developed World 400\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Cities 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrbanization and the European City System 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharacteristic Features of European Cities 403\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 14.1 Stockholm’s Urban Planning 406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 14.2 Health and Urban Geography: COVID- 19 Responses in European Cities 408\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 14.3 Postwar Urban Developments: Rome’s EUR Center and Paris’s La Defense 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAspects of Change 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities in Post- Communist Europe 420\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunist Urban Development 422\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost- Communist Development 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 14.4 The Old and New City of Prague 424\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities in Japan 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructure of Japanese Cities 426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in Japanese Cities 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Cities in the Less Developed and Newly Developed World 430\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Urban Majority 432\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow the Cities Have Grown 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemographic Factors Involved in Urban Growth 436\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 15.1 Migration as a Household Process 438\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigins of Urbanization in Less Developed Countries 439\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernization Perspective 439\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInternational Political Economy Perspective 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharacteristics of LDC Cities 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEffects of Growth 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing 448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 15.2 Health and Urban Geography: Urban Health in the Developing World 450\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 15.3 Cities in the Sand: Egypt’s New Towns 454\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmployment Opportunities and the Informal Sector 458\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Regional Variations in Urban Structure and Form in the Less Developed World 464\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Latin American City 465\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 16.1 The Middle Eastern City 466\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 16.2 Health and Urban Geography: China’s COVID- 19 Response 467\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColonial Legacies 468\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Latin American Cities 468\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSub- Saharan African Cities 475\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndigenous Influences 476\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Intervention 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 16.3 Apartheid in Urban South Africa 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern African Cities 480\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouth Asian Cities 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Typology of South Asian Cities 483\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Challenges 486\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoutheast Asian Cities 489\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndigenous Influences: Sacred and Market Cities 489\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Colonial City in Southeast Asia 491\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Cities 493\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrapping Up 497\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings 497\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 499\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID H. KAPLAN\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Geography at Kent State University. His research interests include nationalism, borderlands, ethnic and racial segregation, urban and regional development, housing finance, and sustainable transportation. Dr. Kaplan has published 14 books and more than 70 articles and book chapters. He edits the \u003ci\u003eGeographical Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNational Identities\u003c\/i\u003e and is a former President of the American Association of Geographers.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTEVEN R. HOLLOWAY\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Geography and Director of Urban and Metropolitan Studies at the University of Georgia. He conducts research on a variety of urban-centered topics, including racial segregation, redlining, mortgage lending discrimination, wildfire risk, and urban heat islands. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals including \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eApplied Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Professional Geographer\u003c\/i\u003e.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProvides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of Urban Geography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leading undergraduate textbook on the subject, \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e covers the origins, historical development, and contemporary challenges of cities and metropolitan areas around the world. Incorporating the most recent research in urban studies, authors David H. Kaplan and Steven R. 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New discussion of the impact of COVID-19 and other health aspects of cities is accompanied by new data, new figures, new themes, and new pedagogical tools. 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