The Urban Order An Introduction to Urban Geography

by Short, John Rennie

• ISBN13: 9781557863607
• ISBN10: 1557863601
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(13)
PART I THE CITY AND ECONOMY
Cities and Economic Development	13	(23)
The Urbanization of the Economy	36	(32)
The City and the Global Economy	68	(25)
The Political Economy of Urbanization	93	(29)
Capital, Labor, and the City: Case Study I, Part 1	122	(19)
Capital, Labor, and the City: Case Study I, Part 2	141	(11)
Yuppies, Yuffies, and the New Urban Order: Case Study II	152	(21)
PART II THE CITY AND SOCIETY
The Housing Market	173	(34)
The Social Arena	207	(32)
Life in the City	239	(24)
The Political Arena	263	(28)
Residential Mobility in the City: Case Study III	291	(16)
Gender, Space, and Power: Case Study IV	307	(23)
Race, Ethnicity, and the City: Case Study V	330	(43)
PART III THE PRODUCTION OF THE CITY
City as Investment	373	(17)
City as Text	390	(24)
City Images	414	(25)
Reconstructing the Image of a City: Case Study VI	439	(24)
Conflict and Compromise in the Built Environment: Case Study VII	463	(25)
Postscript: Barcelona	488	(5)
Concluding Comments	493	(1)
Index	494