An accessible and cutting edge introduction to - and overview of - the key concepts defining contemporary urban geography in 20 lively and informative essays.
An accessible and cutting edge introduction to - and overview of - the key concepts defining contemporary urban geography in 20 lively and informative essays.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alan Latham is a Professor of Human Geography at University College London. His research focuses on sociality, social infrastructure, and the public life of cities more generally. He has undertaken research in Germany, America, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Sweden on cities as diverse as Auckland, London, New York, Eugene (OR), Malmo, Berlin, and Champaign-Urbana. Before moving to UCL he held academic positions at the University of Southampton, and the University of Auckland.
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Introduction I Location and movement 1.1 Centrality 1.2 Mobility 1.3 Global Cities 1.4 Transnational urbanism II Constructions 2.1 Nature 2.2 Materiality 2.3 Infrastructure 2.4 Architecture III Envisioning and experience 3.1 Diagram 3.2 Photography 3.3 Body 3.4 Virtuality 3.5 Surveillance IV Social and Political Spaces 4.1 Segregation 4.2 Urban politics 4.3 Community V Sites and practices 5.1 Consumption 5.2 Media 5.3 Public space 5.4 Commemoration
Introduction I Location and movement 1.1 Centrality 1.2 Mobility 1.3 Global Cities 1.4 Transnational urbanism II Constructions 2.1 Nature 2.2 Materiality 2.3 Infrastructure 2.4 Architecture III Envisioning and experience 3.1 Diagram 3.2 Photography 3.3 Body 3.4 Virtuality 3.5 Surveillance IV Social and Political Spaces 4.1 Segregation 4.2 Urban politics 4.3 Community V Sites and practices 5.1 Consumption 5.2 Media 5.3 Public space 5.4 Commemoration
Introduction I Location and movement 1.1 Centrality 1.2 Mobility 1.3 Global Cities 1.4 Transnational urbanism II Constructions 2.1 Nature 2.2 Materiality 2.3 Infrastructure 2.4 Architecture III Envisioning and experience 3.1 Diagram 3.2 Photography 3.3 Body 3.4 Virtuality 3.5 Surveillance IV Social and Political Spaces 4.1 Segregation 4.2 Urban politics 4.3 Community V Sites and practices 5.1 Consumption 5.2 Media 5.3 Public space 5.4 Commemoration
Introduction I Location and movement 1.1 Centrality 1.2 Mobility 1.3 Global Cities 1.4 Transnational urbanism II Constructions 2.1 Nature 2.2 Materiality 2.3 Infrastructure 2.4 Architecture III Envisioning and experience 3.1 Diagram 3.2 Photography 3.3 Body 3.4 Virtuality 3.5 Surveillance IV Social and Political Spaces 4.1 Segregation 4.2 Urban politics 4.3 Community V Sites and practices 5.1 Consumption 5.2 Media 5.3 Public space 5.4 Commemoration
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This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline.
Roger Keil
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