Companion to urban and regional studies / edited by Anthony M. Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle, Serena Vicari Haddock.
By: Orum, Anthony M [author.].
Contributor(s): Orum, Anthony M [editor.] | Ruiz-Tagle, Javier [editor.] | Vicari Haddock, Serena [editor.] | Credo Reference (Firm) [distributor.].
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2023Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition].Description: 1 online resource (37 entries) : 23 images ; digital files.Content type: text | still image Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781803162102.Subject(s): Cities and towns -- History -- 21st century | History, Modern -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this item online Also available in print version.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Cities across world regions. Chapter 1. Cities and regions in South Asia ; Chapter 2. Making cities and regions in globalising East Asia ; Chapter 3. Latin American cities and regions ; Chapter 4. Cities and regions in Sub-Saharan Africa ; Chapter 5. Australasian cities: urban change across Australia and New Zealand ; Chapter 6. European cities between continuity and change ; Chapter 7. The North American city -- Part II. Leading theoretical perspectives and approaches. Chapter 8. New directions in Frankfurt critical theory for critical urban theory ; Chapter 9. Legacies and remnants of the Chicago school: lineage-making and interdisciplinary urban research at the University of Chicago ; Chapter 10. Environmental perspectives on cities ; Chapter 11. Feminist urban research: praxis and possibility across time and space -- Part III. Methodological approaches. Chapter 12. A critical-empirical approach to the use of demographic methods and sources in urban studies ; Chapter 13. GIS in urban studies: a tool of expert analysis, practical application, and citizens' participation ; Chapter 14. Urban ethnography ; Chapter 15. Cities and metworks ; Chapter 16. Policy mobilities: how localities assemble, mobilise, and adopt circulated forms of knowledge -- Part IV. Social problems in twenty-first-century cities. Chapter 17. Social heterogeneity and diversity ; Chapter 18. Inequalities and the city: gender, ethnicity, and class ; Chapter 19. The role of residential context and public policies in the production of urban inequalities ; Chapter 20. Immigration and immigrants in European countries ; Chapter 21. Migration and migrants in post-reform Chinese cities ; Chapter 22. Migration and migrants in the United States: the case for a fifth immigration phase ; Chapter 23. Segregation, social mix, and gentrification: nexuses -- Part V. Political and economic problems in twenty-first-century cities. Chapter 24. Urban citizenship and governance ; Chapter 25. Policies and policy approaches in cities ; Chapter 26. Financialisation and real estate ; Chapter 27. Housing in the global north and the global south -- Part VI. Closure. Chapter 28. Conclusions.
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Companion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns.
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