Key concepts in urban geography / Alan Latham ... [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Latham, Alan, author.

Series:

Key concepts in human geography.

Key concepts in human geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, c2008.

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Key Concepts in Urban Geography is a new kind of textbook that forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the human geography sub-disciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Urban Geography provides a cutting edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in urban geography.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on title page of print version.

ISBN:

9786612956485

9781446202272

1446202275

9781282956483

1282956485

9781446243589

1446243583

9781446214404

1446214400

9781780343327

1780343329

OCLC:

699475315