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Urban geography : a critical introduction / Andrew E.G. Jonas, Eugene McCann and Mary Thomas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Chicheste : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015Description: xviii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781405189798 (paperback)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Urban geographyDDC classification:
  • 307.76 JON 23 013008
LOC classification:
  • GF125 .J66 2015
Summary: "Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds "--Summary: "Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale"--
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 307.76 JON 013008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 013008

Online version Jonas, Andrew E. G., 1961- Urban geography Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley &​ Sons, Inc., 2015 9781118608500 (DLC) 2014046219

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index.

"Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds "--

"Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale"--

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