Cities of North America

Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities
Herausgeber: Benton-Short, Lisa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely textprovides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concerns-including the redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of manufacturing, manufacturing, increased social polarization and how to plan a sustainable future. The book explores how the combined processes of urbanization and globalization have added new responsibilities for city governments at the same time leaders are grappling with planning, economic development and finance, justice, equity, and social cohesion. Introducing contemporary spatial arrangements and distributions of activities in metropolitan areas, this clear and accessible book covers economic, social, political, and ecological changes. It is also the only text to include the physical geography of urban areas. Bringing together leading geographers, it will be an ideal resource for courses on urban geography and geography of the city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 999g
• ISBN-13: 9781442213135
• ISBN-10: 1442213132
• Artikelnr.: 38085492

Autorenporträt

Edited by Lisa Benton-Short

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cities of North America Lisa Benton-Short
Chapter 2: Changing Approaches to Urban Geography Katie Wells Chapter 3: An
Urban History Robert Lewis Chapter 4: Border Cities Lindsey Sutton Part I:
Urban Economies Chapter 5: Urban Economic Restructuring David Wilson and
Matthew Anderson Chapter 6: Globalization and the City Yeong-Hyun Kim Part
II: Urban Governance Chapter 7: Urban Governance Thomas J. Vicino Chapter
8: Planning and Politics Amanda Huron Part III: Urban Social/Cultural
Challenges Chapter 9: Urban Inequities Deborah G. Martin Chapter 10: Urban
Demographics and Identities Nathaniel M. Lewis Chapter 11: Suburban
Challenges Bernadette Hanlon Part IV: The Urban Environment Chapter 12:
Cities and Pollution Lisa Benton-Short and Christopher DeSousa Chapter 13:
Cities and Hazards John P. Tiefenbacher Chapter 14: Urban Sustainability
Geoff Buckley