{"product_id":"urban-geography-isbn-9781405189798","title":"Urban Geography","description":"\u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Boxes xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Approaching the City 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Production, Economy, and the City 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A World of Cities 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Labor and the City 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The City and Social Reproduction 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Governing the City: The State, Urban Planning, and Politics 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Experiencing Cities 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Nature and Environment in the City 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Urban Crises 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”  (\u003ci\u003e3D Visualization World Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, 24 June 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew E.G. Jonas holds a Chair in Human Geography at the University of Hull in the UK. His co-edited books include \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Growth Machine; Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later\u003c\/i\u003e (1999, with David Wilson), \u003ci\u003eInterrogating Alterity\u003c\/i\u003e (2010, with Duncan Fuller and Roger Lee), and \u003ci\u003eTerritory, the State and Urban Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2012, with Andy Wood). He serves on the editorial boards of \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTerritory Politics and Governance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEugene McCann is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is co-editor, with Kevin Ward, of \u003ci\u003eMobile Urbanism: Cities \u0026amp; Policymaking in the Global Age\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and, with Ronan Paddison, \u003ci\u003eCities \u0026amp; Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e Mary Thomas is Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMulticultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Social Geography\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of critical themes and conceptual ideas relating to contemporary urban geography including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Building upon a wide range of topical examples and illustrative case studies from several international cities, the text brings to light all of the key ideas, concepts, and themes most widely utilized in critical geographical approaches to contemporary urban spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInitial chapters offer an introduction to critical approaches to the city before exploring the evolution of contemporary global processes of urbanization and urban development. These are followed by more in-depth coverage of such topics as labor, planning, place marketing, social reproduction, nature, experience, art, culture, citizenship, and alternative urban spaces. Individual chapters strike a careful balance between a depiction of the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and an exposure of the networks, flows, and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global level.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e offers valuable insights into critical geographical approaches to the modern city, along with the diverse set of policies, practices, and challenges of contemporary urban living and its rapid movements and changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book’s cover shows the Ashton Canal dissecting the formerly industrial area of Ancoats in Manchester, England.  Urban landscapes like this one are palimpsests that speak to how cities change in tandem with social, economic, and architectural transformations over time.  A heartland of 19th Century urban industrialism, Ancoats is now rebranded as ‘New Islington’ and, as the contemporary apartment buildings along the canal suggest, is undergoing gentrification.  Cities are always changing.  This book explains how, why, where, and in whose interests.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990440100069,"sku":"NP9781405189798","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405189798.jpg?v=1761787836","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/urban-geography-isbn-9781405189798","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}