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The Urban Order
John Rennie Short
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Description for The Urban Order
Hardcover. * A triple perspective - the city and economy; the city and society; the city and power. * Includes chapters on race, ethnicity and the city; and on gender, space and power. * Unites political, economic and cultural perspectives. * Examples range from all over the world. Num Pages: 512 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFSG; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 262 x 188 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1166.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781557863607
SKU
V9781557863607
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Ref
99-50
About John Rennie Short
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), ... Read more
Reviews for The Urban Order
"The strengths of this text are its breadth of coverage of the main debates in the field, the author's continuing and lively engagement with his subject and his genuine attempts to cross paradigms in discussion of what constitutes different understandings of urban orders. The comparative material... is a welcome change from the usual northern hemispheric focus of texts written in ... Read more