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Handbook of Urban Geography
Edited by Tim Schwanen and Ronald van Kempen
This collection brings together the latest thinking in urban geography. It provides a comprehensive overview of topical issues and draws on experiences from across the world. Chapters have been prepared by leading researchers in the field and cover themes as diverse as urban economies, inequalities and diversity, conflicts and politics, ecology and sustainability, and information technologies. The Handbook offers a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in cities and the urban in geography and across the wider social sciences.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 28 Jun 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781785364594
- eISBN:
- 9781785364600
- Pages:
- c 512
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- Handbook of Urban Geography
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Editors and contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Handbook of Urban Geography
- Chapter 2: Worlding cities and comparative urbanism
- Chapter 3: Urban political ecologies of and in the city
- Chapter 4: Urban cosmopolitics
- Chapter 5: Big data and the city
- Chapter 6: Multiple geographies of global urban connectivity as measured in the interlocking network model
- Chapter 7: Inside mobile urbanism: cities and policy mobilities
- Chapter 8: Metropolitan mobilities: transnational urban labour markets
- Chapter 9: Refugee mobility across networks and cities
- Chapter 10: Urban infrastructures: four tensions and their effects
- Chapter 11: Emerging city regions: urban expansion, transformation and discursive construction
- Chapter 12: The cultural economy in cities
- Chapter 13: Urban regeneration through culture
- Chapter 14: Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism
- Chapter 15: Terrorism, risk and the quest for urban resilience
- Chapter 16: Urban inequality
- Chapter 17: Segregation: a multi-contextual and multi-faceted phenomenon in stratified societies
- Chapter 18: Neighbourhood effects on social outcomes
- Chapter 19: Gentrification and displacement: urban inequality in cities of late capitalism
- Chapter 20: Urban informatics and e-governance
- Chapter 21: Sociality, materiality and the city
- Chapter 22: Spaces of encounter: learning to live together in superdiverse cities
- Chapter 23: Children’s geographies: encounters and experiences
- Chapter 24: Exploring insurgent urban mobilizations: from urban social movements to urban political movements?
- Chapter 25: Urban governance: re-thinking top-down and bottom-up power relations in the wake of neo-liberalization
- Chapter 26: The right to the city: theoretical outline and reflections on migrants’ activism in post-reform urban China
- Chapter 27: Contextualizing neighbourhood activism: spatial solidarity in the city
- Chapter 28: Urban sustainability transitions
- Chapter 29: Eco-cities
- Chapter 30: The governance of climate change in urban areas
- Index
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Handbook Chapter
- Published:
- 28 June 2019
- Category:
- Handbook Chapter
- Pages:
- v–vii (3 total)
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
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- Handbook of Urban Geography
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Editors and contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Handbook of Urban Geography
- Chapter 2: Worlding cities and comparative urbanism
- Chapter 3: Urban political ecologies of and in the city
- Chapter 4: Urban cosmopolitics
- Chapter 5: Big data and the city
- Chapter 6: Multiple geographies of global urban connectivity as measured in the interlocking network model
- Chapter 7: Inside mobile urbanism: cities and policy mobilities
- Chapter 8: Metropolitan mobilities: transnational urban labour markets
- Chapter 9: Refugee mobility across networks and cities
- Chapter 10: Urban infrastructures: four tensions and their effects
- Chapter 11: Emerging city regions: urban expansion, transformation and discursive construction
- Chapter 12: The cultural economy in cities
- Chapter 13: Urban regeneration through culture
- Chapter 14: Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism
- Chapter 15: Terrorism, risk and the quest for urban resilience
- Chapter 16: Urban inequality
- Chapter 17: Segregation: a multi-contextual and multi-faceted phenomenon in stratified societies
- Chapter 18: Neighbourhood effects on social outcomes
- Chapter 19: Gentrification and displacement: urban inequality in cities of late capitalism
- Chapter 20: Urban informatics and e-governance
- Chapter 21: Sociality, materiality and the city
- Chapter 22: Spaces of encounter: learning to live together in superdiverse cities
- Chapter 23: Children’s geographies: encounters and experiences
- Chapter 24: Exploring insurgent urban mobilizations: from urban social movements to urban political movements?
- Chapter 25: Urban governance: re-thinking top-down and bottom-up power relations in the wake of neo-liberalization
- Chapter 26: The right to the city: theoretical outline and reflections on migrants’ activism in post-reform urban China
- Chapter 27: Contextualizing neighbourhood activism: spatial solidarity in the city
- Chapter 28: Urban sustainability transitions
- Chapter 29: Eco-cities
- Chapter 30: The governance of climate change in urban areas
- Index