Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography (2nd Edition)

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Part 1 Introduction
	Chapter 1 URBANIZATION AND URBAN GEOGRAPHY
		Learning Outcomes
		Chapter Preview
		The Study of Urban Geography
		Urbanization: Processes and Outcomes
		The Plan of the Book
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
Part 2 Foundations and History of Urbanization
	Chapter 2 THE ORIGINS AND GROWTH OF CITIES AND URBAN LIFE
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		The Definition of a City
		Preconditions for Urbanization
		Theories of Urban Origins
		Urban Origins
		Internal Structure of the Earliest Cities
		Urban Expansion from the Regions of Urban Origin
		The Roots of European Urban Expansion
		Urbanization and the Industrial Revolution
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 3 FOUNDATIONS: THE U.S. URBAN SYSTEM AND ITS CITIES
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		Frontier Urbanization
		The Mercantile Period (1790–1840)
		Early Industrial Expansion and Regional Realignment (1840–1875)
		The Organization of Industry (1875–1920)
		Fordism, the Automobile, Suburban Infill, and the Great Depression (1920–1945)
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 4 URBAN SYSTEMS AND CITIES IN TRANSITION
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		Regional Decentralization and Metropolitan Sprawl (1945–1973)
		Economic crisis, Restructuring, and New Metropolitan Form (1973–Present)
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
Part 3 Urbanization and the Less Developed Countries
	Chapter 5 URBANIZATION IN THE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
		Learning Outcomes
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		Urbanization Trends and Projections: The Less Developed Countries in Global Context
		Factors Promoting Urban Growth
		Theories of Urbanization and Economic Development
		A Historical Perspective on Colonial Urbanization
		Overurbanization
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 6 URBAN FORM AND LAND USE IN THE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
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		Patterns of Urban form and Land Use
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 7 URBAN PROBLEMS AND RESPONSES IN THE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
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		Urban Problems
		Responses to the Problems of Urbanization
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
Part 4 Processes of Urban Change
	Chapter 8 THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
		Learning Outcomes African Cities 145
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		Property, Location, Rent, and Investment
		The Structures of Building Provision
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 9 HOW NEIGHBORHOODS CHANGE
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		Neighborhood Change
		Housing Markets
		Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Change
		Housing Market Gatekeepers, Bias, and Discrimination
		Putting it all Together: The Example of Gentrification
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 10 THE POLITICS OF CHANGE: URBANIZATION AND URBAN GOVERNANCE
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		The History of Urban Governance
		Entrepreneurial Politics and Neoliberalism (1973–Present)
		Perspectives on Governance, Politics, and Urban Change
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 11 URBAN POLICY AND PLANNING
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		The Roots of Urban Policy and Planning
		The Beginning: Philanthropy and Reform
		The City Practical
		The New Deal
		Policy and Planning for Renewal and Growth (1945–1973)
		Neoliberal Policy and Planning
		Planning for Healthy and Livable Cities
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
Part 5 People and Places
	Chapter 12 THE RESIDENTIAL KALEIDOSCOPE
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		Social Interaction and Residential Segregation
		Interpretations of Residential Ecology
		Recent Changes to the Foundations of Residential Segregation
		Social Polarization and Spatial Segregation
		The New Residential Mosaic: “Lifestyle” Communities
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 13 THE CITY AS TEXT: ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
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		Architecture and the Dynamics of Urban Change
		The Style of Production/The Production of Style
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 14 URBANIZATION, URBAN LIFE, AND URBAN SPACES
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		Social Life in Cities
		Theoretical Interpretations of Urban Life
		Gendered Spaces
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
	Chapter 15 PROBLEMS OF URBANIZATION
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		Problem? What Problem?
		From Haunts of Vice to Gang Wastelands—and Back
		Poverty
		Criminal Violence
		Homelessness
		Infrastructure and Environmental Problems
		Persistent Future Problems
		FOLLOW UP: Key Terms
		Review Activities
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