Andrew E. G. Jonas, Eugene McCann, Mary Thomas

Gebundenes Buch

Urban Geography

A Critical Introduction

Beschreibung

Urban Geography 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.

Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing
Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites
Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds

Autor

Andrew E.G. Jonas holds a Chair in Human Geography at the University of Hull in the UK. His co-edited books include The Urban Growth Machine; Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later (1999, with David Wilson), Interrogating Alterity (2010, with Duncan Fuller and Roger Lee), and Territory, the State and Urban Politics (2012, with Andy Wood). He serves on the editorial boards of Urban Geography and Territory Politics and Governance. Eugene McCann is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is co-editor, with Kevin Ward, of Mobile Urbanism: Cities & Policymaking in the Global Age (2011) and, with Ronan Paddison, Cities & Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism (2014). Mary Thomas is Associate Professor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Multicultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education (2011), and co-editor of A Companion to Social Geography (2011). 

Produktdetails

• Critical Introductions to Geography
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 832g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189804
• ISBN-10: 1405189800
• Artikelnr.: 41316308

Rezensionen

An excellent textbook for urban geography courses: accessible,comprehensive and stimulating. For the student who wants to knowhow and why cities continue to matter, Andrew Jonas, Eugene McCannand Mary Thomas have produced a pedagogic tour-de-force.
Kevin Ward, University of Manchester

An excellent and comprehensive introduction tocities' uneven geographies and the diverse processes andexperiences that co-produce them. Each of its empiricallyrich and theoretically rigorous chapters will engage, excite andextend students, while giving them a solid grounding.
Pauline McGuirk, Director, Centre for Urban and RegionalStudies, University of Newcastle, Australia