Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface to the third edition
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue
• Introduction
• Copyright acknowledgements
• PART ONE: THE STUDY OF URBAN GEOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 1 Urban geography: from global to local
    • Introduction
    • Global trigger factors
    • Globalisation
    • Glocalisation: the localisation of the global
    • The question of space and scale
    • Local and historical contingency
    • Processes of urban change
    • Urban outcomes
    • Why study urban geography?
  • Chapter 2 Concepts and theory in urban geography
    • Introduction
    • The scope of urban geography
    • Defining the urban
    • The significance of space and place
    • The value of the urban dimension
    • A brief history of urban geography
    • In search of common ground
    • Levels of analysis in urban geography
• PART TWO: AN URBANISING WORLD
  • Chapter 3 The origins and growth of cities
    • Introduction
    • Preconditions for urban growth
    • Theories of urban origins
    • Early urban hearths
    • The spread of urbanism
    • Urban revival in Western Europe
    • The medieval town
    • The preconditions for industrial urbanism
    • Early modern urbanism
    • The form of the industrial city
    • Residential segregation
    • Housing the poor
    • The other side of the coin
    • The origins of urban USA
    • The westward progress of urbanism
    • Post-industrial urbanism
    • The quartering of urban space
    • The post-industrial/postmodern city
  • Chapter 4 The global context of urbanisation and urban change
    • Introduction
    • The urbanisation of the globe
    • The changing distribution of the world’s urban population
    • The causes of urban growth
    • Urbanisation and economic growth
    • The urbanisation cycle
    • A ‘stages of urban development’ model
    • Types of urbanised regions
  • Chapter 5 Regional perspectives on urbanisation and urban change
    • Introduction
    • North America
    • Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Western Europe
    • East and Central Europe
    • Asia and the Pacific
    • Africa
  • Chapter 6 National urban systems
    • Introduction
    • National urban systems and the outside world
    • Types of places in the national urban system
    • Theories of the urban system
• PART THREE: URBAN STRUCTURE AND LAND USE IN THE WESTERN CITY
  • Chapter 7 Land use in the city
    • Introduction
    • Urban morphogenesis
    • Ecological models of the city
    • Modifications of the classical urban models
    • A political economy perspective
    • Major actors in the production of the built environment
    • Growth coalitions
    • The central business district
    • Urban architecture
    • Public space in the postmodern city
    • Architecture and urban meaning
    • The social construction of the urban landscape
  • Chapter 8 Urban planning and policy
    • Introduction
    • The roots of urban planning
    • Post-war urban planning in the UK
    • Urban policy in the UK
    • Urban planning in the USA
    • Planning the socialist city
    • Socialist urban form
    • Towards planning for sustainable urban development
  • Chapter 9 New towns
    • Introduction
    • The British new towns
    • New towns in Europe
    • New towns in the Third World
    • New communities in the USA
  • Chapter 10 Residential mobility and neighbourhood change
    • Introduction
    • Why people move
    • The decision to move
    • The search for a new home
    • Housing markets
    • Neighbourhood change
    • Housing abandonment
    • Gentrification
  • Chapter 11 Housing problems and housing policy
    • Introduction
    • Trends in housing tenure in the UK
    • Public housing in the USA
    • Housing affordability
    • Homelessness
    • Strategies to improve housing quality
    • Alternative housing strategies
    • Balanced communities
  • Chapter 12 Urban retailing
    • Introduction
    • Shopertainment
    • Spaces and places of consumption
    • The spatial switching of retail capital
    • Urban retail structure
    • The changing structure of urban retailing
    • The growth of suburban shopping centres in North America
    • The impact of retail decentralisation on the US CBD
    • Concentration versus decentralisation in Britain
    • Disadvantaged consumers
  • Chapter 13 Urban transportation
    • Introduction
    • Patterns of travel demand
    • The urban transport problem
    • Responses to the urban transport problem
    • Transport and sustainable urban development
• PART FOUR: LIVING IN THE CITY: ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN THE WESTERN CITY
  • Chapter 14 The economy of cities
    • Introduction
    • The world/global economy
    • The world economy in the post-war era
    • Transnational corporations and the state in the global economy
    • New production systems and new industrial spaces
    • Deindustrialisation and tertiarisation
    • The nature of work and the division of labour
    • Urban change within the global economy
  • Chapter 15 Poverty and deprivation in the Western city
    • Introduction
    • Theories of deprivation
    • The nature of deprivation
    • The underclass
    • Dimensions of multiple deprivation
    • Financial exclusion
    • The geography of deprivation
    • The inner-city problem
    • The outer-city problem
    • Deprivation and the area-based approach
  • Chapter 16 National and local responses to urban economic change
    • Introduction
    • Urban regeneration in the UK from the top down
    • Urban policy in the USA
    • Public–private partnerships
    • Property-led regeneration
    • Cultural industries and urban reconstruction
    • Urban tourism and downtown redevelopment
    • The market-led approach to urban development
    • Urban regeneration from the bottom up
    • The community/social economy
    • The black economy
  • Chapter 17 Collective consumption and social justice in the city
    • Introduction
    • Welfare needs and provision
    • The changing nature of the welfare state
    • The theory of public goods
    • Theories of public-service provision
    • Efficiency, equity and equality in public service provision
    • The suburban exploitation thesis
    • Deinstitutionalisation
    • Educational services in the city
    • Social justice and welfare
  • Chapter 18 Residential differentiation and communities in the city
    • Introduction
    • The identification of residential areas
    • Sense of place
    • Difference and identity in the city
    • The urban community
    • The bases of residential segregation
    • Ethnic areas in the US city
    • Ethnic areas in the British city
  • Chapter 19 Urban liveability
    • Introduction
    • Rating places
    • Theories of urban impact
    • Environmental stressors
    • Site design and social behaviour
    • Residential satisfaction
    • Urban sub-areas
    • Women in the city
    • Elderly people in the city
    • Young people in the city
    • Disabled people in the city
    • Towards the liveable city
  • Chapter 20 Power, politics and urban governance
    • Introduction
    • The role of local government
    • Constraints on local government
    • The spatial structure of local government
    • City growth, annexation and incorporation in the USA
    • Negative consequences of fragmented government
    • The politics of secession
    • Metropolitan government
    • Power in the city
    • Participation strategies
    • Urban social movements
• PART FIVE: URBAN GEOGRAPHY IN THE THIRD WORLD
  • Chapter 21 Third World urbanisation within a Global Urban System
    • Introduction
    • Urbanisation in the First and Third Worlds
    • Theories of urbanisation and development
    • Third World urbanisation in historical context
    • Stages of colonial urbanisation
    • Peripheral urbanisation
    • Exo-urbanisation
    • Urbanisation by implosion
  • Chapter 22 Internal structure of Third World cities
    • Introduction
    • Cities of Latin America
    • Africa’s cities
    • Cities of the Middle East and North Africa
    • The city in South Asia
    • The South East Asian city
    • The Chinese city
  • Chapter 23 Rural–urban migration in the Third World
    • Introduction
    • Why people move
    • Structural determinants of migration
    • Who migrates?
    • Migration strategies
    • The policy response
  • Chapter 24 Urban economy and employment in the Third World
    • Introduction
    • The evolution of the Third World urban economy
    • The structure of the urban economy
    • Employment relations in the Third World urban economy
    • Labour market structure
    • Job access
    • Unemployment, underemployment and misemployment
    • Women in the labour force
    • Child labour
    • The household economy and coping strategies
  • Chapter 25 Housing the Third World urban poor
    • Introduction
    • The main sources of housing for the urban poor
    • Housing sub-markets and the urban poor
    • Squatter settlements
    • Security of tenure
    • Housing finance
    • Urban land markets and the poor
    • Informal settlements: generative or parasitic?
    • Government housing policy
  • Chapter 26 Environmental problems in Third World cities
    • Introduction
    • The domestic environment
    • The workplace environment
    • The neighbourhood environment
    • The city environment
    • The city’s ecological footprint
  • Chapter 27 Health in the Third World City
    • Introduction
    • The epidemiological transition
    • Factors determining health status
    • An urban penalty?
    • Intra-urban variations in health
    • Diseases of the urban poor
    • Primary health care and the urban poor
    • Malnutrition
    • Combating urban malnutrition
    • Integrated approaches to primary health care
  • Chapter 28 Traffic and transport in the Third World city
    • Introduction
    • Traffic problems
    • Transport and Third World urban form
    • Public transport
    • Non-motorised transport
    • Rail-based transit systems
    • Urban transport strategies in the Third World
  • Chapter 29 Poverty, power and politics in the Third World city
    • Introduction
    • The social relations of power
    • Partiality, inequality and the soft state
    • The bases of social power
    • Patron–client relations
    • Urban social movements
    • Community-based organisations
    • Christian base communities
    • Urban NGOs in the Third World
    • Community participation in Third World urban governance
    • Globalisation and social justice
• PART SIX: PROSPECTIVE – THE FUTURE OF THE CITY: CITIES OF THE FUTURE
  • Chapter 30 The future of the city – cities of the future
    • Introduction
    • Sustainable urban development
    • Urban metabolism
    • Towards the city of the future
    • The study of urban geography
• Notes
• Useful web sites
• Glossary

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