Benjamin Cummings
Geography & Atmospheric Sciences
My Instructor Resource Center : Log in or request access
Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography, 2/E
ISBN-10: 0131424505
ISBN-13: 9780131424500
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Cloth; 608 pp
Published: 01/07/2005
Status: Instock
This book provides a coherent, comprehensive introduction to urban geography. It offers a historical and process-oriented approach with a North American focus that also provides a global context and comparative international perspective. From a global perspective, the authors examine urban trends and their outcomes in both the developed and the less developed countries in order to understand, analyze, and interpret the landscapes, economies, and communities of towns and cities around the world.
• Process-oriented approach to cities — Benefits the student/professor by focusing on key ideas, concepts, and theories rather than becoming bogged down with a huge collection of facts.
Example: Fig. 1.4, Urbanization as a Process.
• Historical approach to cities — Provides a framework for understanding urbanization and urban change over time.
Example: Chapter 2 covers the origins and growth of towns and cities from Mesopotamia through the Industrial Revolution; Chapter 3 covers the foundations of the American urban system.
• Global perspective and globalization context — Situates cities within both the larger global context and processes of economic, political, and cultural globalization and their outcomes.
Examples: Ch. 1 Box on “Globalization and Cities”; Ch. 7 Box on “Core, semi-periphery and periphery in the world-system.”
• Coverage of new technologies for studying cities — e.g., Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is introduced in the Ch. 1 box on U.S. census definitions and addressed in the Ch. 12 box on how GIS marketing applications help Starbucks brew up better locational analyses.
Examples: Ch. 1 Box on “Census Definitions;” Ch. 12 Box on “GIS Marketing Applications.”
• Material throughout the text on Western cities — Allowing a focus on North American cities while also paying attention to cities in developed countries elsewhere in the world (in Europe, Australia, Russia, and Japan).
Examples: Ch. 4 box on “Contemporary European Urbanization”; Ch. 6 boxes on “Japanese Cities: Tokyo and the Tokaido Megalopolis” and “ Australian Edge Cities?” Ch. 12 boxes on “Social exclusion and migrant workers in West European cities” and “Residential and economic structure in European cities;” Ch. 13 boxes on “Public and private housing in European cities” and “ Neighborhood stability in West European cities;” Ch. 15 boxes on “Crime and corruption in the cities of the Russian Federation,” “High-speed rail in an integrating Europe,” and “ London’s traffic congestion charge;” Ch. 16 box on “Urban regeneration in London’s docklands;” and Ch. 17 boxes on “The visible legacy of urban policy and planning in European cities,” and “Planning the socialist city in Eastern Europe.”
• Material throughout the text on cities in the less developed countries — Incorporating attention for Latin American, African, Islamic, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and East Asian cities.
Examples: Chapter 7 covers urbanization in the less developed countries; Chapter 8 covers urban form and land use in the less developed countries; and Chapter 9 covers urban problems and responses in the less developed countries.
• “Follow Up” at the end of each chapter — Contains a list of key terms from that chapter, 2-3 study questions or additional activities related to that chapter, and separate instructions for a “portfolio” containing various kinds of material (text, maps and photos, sound recordings, etc.) that students can compile as they work their way through the text.
• Comprehensive glossary of terms that are boldfaced throughout the text.
• Abundant new and revised illustrations and graphics. (maps, graphs, photos, and more).
• New material on globalization and cities — Includes attention throughout the text to the interdependence between globalization and urbanization.
— For example, the future of cities in an increasingly interconnected world, terrorism and cities, neocolonialism and cities in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Updated material on North America cities — addresses recent urban trends and their outcomes in North America.
— For example, boomburbs, ethnoburbs, “splintering urbanism,” and competitive regionalism.
• New material on Western cities — augments the coverage of North American cities with material on cities in other developed countries (in Europe, Australia, and Japan).
— For example, urban development in European cities, Tokyo and Japanese urbanization, and Australian urban development.
• New material on urban environmental issues — includes urban sustainable development.
— For example, brownfields; sustainability and green urbanism, and smart growth.
• New chapter (Ch. 2) on the early origins and growth of cities — from Mesopotamia, through Greek, Roman, and Medieval cities to the cities of the Industrial Revolution.
• Three new chapters on cities in the less developed countries (in Latin America, Asia, and Africa):
— New chapter (Ch. 7) on urbanization in the less developed countries (colonial urbanization, contemporary urbanization trends including overurbanization and megacities);
— New chapter (Ch. 8) on urban form and land use in the less developed countries (i.e. how traditional and contemporary urban form and land use patterns are different in Latin America, Asia, and Africa compared to in the United States, for example);
— New chapter (Ch. 9) on urban problems (poverty, inadequate housing, lack of urban services, transportation problems, and environmental degradation) and responses (by governments, private agencies, non-profits, communities) in the less developed countries.
• Complete revision of end-of-chapter pedagogy features with new material added:
— “Follow Up” containing a list of key terms from that chapter, 2-3 study questions or additional activities related to that chapter, and separate instructions for a “portfolio” containing various kinds of material (text, maps and photos, sound recordings, etc.) that students can compile as they work their way through the text;
— Key sources and suggested reading that contain updated reading material relevant to the topics covered in each chapter;
— Related websites that are helpful sources for exploring topics covered in each chapter;
— A new comprehensive glossary of terms that are boldfaced throughout the text.
(NOTE: Each chapter begins with a Chapter Preview, contains boxes on important topics, and concludes with Follow Up exercises, Key Sources and Suggested Reading, and Related World Wide Web Sites.)
1 Urbanization and Urban Geography
The Study of Urban Geography
Urbanization: Processes and Outcomes
The Plan of the Book
2 The Origins and Growth of Cities
The Definition of a City
Preconditions for Urbanization
Theories of Urban Origins
Urban Origins
Internal Structure of the Earliest Cities
Urban Expansion from the Regions of Urban Origin
The Roots of European Urban Expansion
Urbanization and the Industrial Revolution
3 The Foundations of the American Urban System
Frontier Urbanization
The Mercantile Epoch (1790–1840)
Early Industrial Expansion and Realignment (1840–1875)
The Organization of Industry (1875–1920)
Early Fordism, the Automobile Era, Suburban Infill, and the Great Depression (1920–1945)
4 Urban Systems in Transition
Freeways, Regional Decentralization, and Metropolitan Consolidation (1945–1972)
Economic Crisis and Neo-Fordist Urban Restructuring (1972–1983)
Neo-Fordist Economic Restructuring and the Emergence of “Informational” Cities (1983–present)
5 The Foundations of Urban Form and Land Use
The Mercantile City (before 1840)
The Early Industrial City (1840–1875)
The Industrial City (1875–1920)
Urban Structure in the Industrial Era
6 Changing Metropolitan Form
Suburban Infill (1920–1945)
Freeways and Metropolitan Sprawl (1945–1972)
Neo-Fordist Development (1973–Present)
The End of “Suburbia”
7 Urbanization in the Less Developed Countries
Urbanization Trends and Projections: The Less Developed Countries in Global Context
Factors promoting Urban Growth
Theories of Urbanization and Economic Development
An Historical Perspective on Colonial Urbanization
Overurbanization and Megacities
8 Urban Form and Land Use in the Less Developed Countries
Patterns of Urban Form and Land Use
9 Urban Problems and Responses in the Less Developed Countries
Urban Problems
Responses to the Problems of Urbanization
10 The City as Text: Architecture and Urban Design
Architecture and the Dynamics of Urban Change
The Style of Production/The Production of Style
11 The Urban Development Process
Property, Location, Rent, and Investment
The Structures of Building Provision
12 The Residential Kaleidoscope
Social Interaction and Residential Segregation
Interpretations of Residential Ecology
The New Mosaic: Attempting to identify “Lifestyle” Communities
13 How Neighborhoods Change
Neighborhood Change
Housing Markets
Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Change
Housing Market Gatekeepers, Bias, and Discrimination
Putting It All Together: The Example of Gentrification
14 Urbanization, Urban Life, and Urban Spaces
Social Life In Cities
Theoretical Interpretations of Urban Life
Gendered Spaces: Women, Home, and Community
15 Problems of Urbanization
Problem? What Problem?
From Haunts of Vice to Gang Wastelands—and Back
Slums and Poverty Areas
Criminal Violence
Homelessness
Infrastructure and Environmental Problems
16 The Politics of Change: Urbanization and Urban Governance
Laissez-faire: Government and Politics in the Mercantile City (1790-1840)
Municipal Socialism and the Rise of Machine Politics (1840-1875)
Boosterism and the Politics of Reform (1875-1920)
Metropolitan Fragmentation and the Formation of Progrowth Coalitions (1920-1945)
Cities as Growth Machines and Service Providers (1945-1973)
Fiscal Crisis and Entrepreneurial Politics (1973-present)
Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives on Governance, Politics, and Urban Change
17 Urban Policy and Planning
The Roots of Urban Policy and Planning
The Beginning: Philanthropy and Reform
The City Practical
The New Deal
Fordist Era Policy and Planning
Neo-Fordist Policy and Planning
Postmodern Planning
Planning for Healthy and Livable Cities
18 Urban Futures
A Perspective on Future Change
Economic Change
Demographic Change
Social Change
Cultural Change
Political Change
Future Visions
Notes
Glossary
Index
For the Geography & Atmospheric Sciences Discipline
Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
Mann & Kump
©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 120 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0136044352 |
ISBN-13: 9780136044352
Geography Coloring Book, 3/E
Kapit
©2003 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 208 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131014722 |
ISBN-13: 9780131014725
Television for the Environment Earth Report Geography Videos on DVD (ValuePack component), 2/E
Television for the Environment
©2011 | Prentice Hall | DVD | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321662989 |
ISBN-13: 9780321662989
Pearson Higher Education offers special pricing when you choose to package your text with other student resources. If you're interested in creating a cost-saving package for your students contact your Pearson Higher Education representative.
