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The geography, politics, and architecture of cities : studies in the creation and complexification of culture / edited by Michael A. McAdams, Jesus Trevino Cantu, Ivani Vassoler-Froelich ; with a foreword by Karol Edward Soltan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Social aspects.
- Cities and towns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, [New York] : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an unusually international and interdisciplinarycollection of essays on the modern city. Authors and subject mattercome from Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, United States, Bulgaria, Spain,Germany, and China among others. Among the disciplinesrepresented are Geography, Political Science, Architecture,Literary Studies, Economics, History, Cultural Studies, andLinguistics. We have in this volume the full spectrum ofhumanities and social sciences, with the topics ranging from indepthstudies of some telling details of urban life, to generaltheoretical approaches to urbanism and urban planning.
- Contents:
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Epilogue
- Index
- List of Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2036-3
- OCLC:
- 804664170
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