Urban Order: An Introduction to Cities, Culture, and Power - Brossura

Short, Short

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ISBN 10: 155786361X ISBN 13: 9781557863614

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Riassunto

Traditional models, radical interpretations and post-modern concerns are synthesized in this accessible and evocative account of the central issues of contemporary urbanism and city life.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Rennie Short was born in Tullibody, Scotland. He was educated at Alloa Academy and Aberdeen University. He completed his PhD at Bristol University and lectured in geography at Reading University before taking up his present position of Professor of Geography at Syracuse University in 1990. His previous books include Housing and Residential Structure (1980), The Humane City (Blackwell, 1989), Imagined Country (1991) and Human Settlement (1993).

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This is a comprehensive guide to the latest scholarship in urban studies. Traditional models, radical interpretations and post-modern concerns are synthesized in a readable, accessible and evocative account of the central issues of contemporary urbanism and city life. The book provides an account of urban dynamics throughout the world and exemplifies the most revealing perspectives and current ideas on the city, urban economics, urban social structure and semiotics of the built environment.

Urban geography is in desperate need of a textbook that characterizes the field of something much richer than that produced by the positivist epistemology of the 1960s. In its themes and organizational framework, in its approach and in its breadth of coverage, this book is set to fulfil that need.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 155786361X
• ISBN 13: 9781557863614
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 516
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile