The Urban Order An Introduction to Urban Geography [Paperback]

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.1. Introduction.

Part I: The City and Economy:.

2. Cities and Economic Development.

3. The Urbanization of the Economy.

4. The City and the Global Economy.

5. The Political Economy of Urbanization.

6. Capital, Labor and the City; Case Study 1: Part 1.

7. Capital, Labor and the City: Case Study 1: Part 2.

8. Yuppies, Yuffies and the New Urban Order: Case Study II.

Part II: The City and Society:.

9. The Housing Market.

10. The Social Arena.

11. Life in the City.

12. The Political Arena.

13. Residential Mobility in the City: Case Study III.

14. Gender, Space and Power: Case Study IV.

15. Race, Ethnicity and the City: Case Study V.

Part III: The Production of the City:.

16. City as Investment.

17. City as Text.

18. City Images.

19. Reconstructing the Image of a City: Case Study VI.

20. Conflict and Compromise in the Built Environment: Case Study VII.

21. Postscript: Barcelona.

Concluding Comments.

Index.

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 teló[