Overview
Remarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas. This fully updated and revised seventh edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape, and, by extension, the world's politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions. Each regional chapter considers urban history, economy, culture, and environment, as well as urban spatial models and problems and prospects. Each begins with two facing pages: a regional map that shows the major cities and a table of basic statistical information about cities and urbanization in each region and a list of ten salient points about that region’s urban experience. Chapters conclude with a list of references, including films and webpages, which can be used by the student and instructor for additional information about specific cities. This edition adds the important new themes of climate change and migration, while continuing to focus on specifically on sustainability, water, technology, social and environmental justice, security and conflict, the history of urban settlement, urban planning trends, and daily life. Vignettes of key cities give the reader a vivid understanding of daily life and the ""spirit of place."" The opening chapter presents an overview of key terms and concepts and explores contemporary world urbanization, and a concluding chapter projects the world's urban future. Liberally illustrated in full color with a new selection of photographs, maps, and diagrams, the text also includes a rich array of textboxes to highlight key topics ranging from migration and immigration to LBGTQ activism, human security, and climate change. Clearly written and timely, Cities of the World will be invaluable for those teaching introductory or advanced classes on global cities, regional geography, the developing world, and urban studies.
Full Product Details
Author: Stanley D. Brunn ,
Donald J. Zeigler ,
Maureen Hays-Mitchell ,
Jessica K. Graybill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Edition: Seventh Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 19.00cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 26.20cm
Weight: 1.615kg
ISBN: 9781538126349
ISBN 10: 1538126346
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 03 March 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
This important book, put together by a team of editors and contributing authors who are specialists in different regions of the world, explores major cities of the globe. The introductory chapter examines the patterns of world urban development, urban economy, theoretical aspects of cities, urban services, problems, and challenges. The 11 chapters that follow provide key urban facts, historical perspectives, profiles of distinctive cities, spatial models, urban problems, and prospects for each subregion of the world. The concluding chapter then presents five scenarios of future cities. This updated edition explains and interprets major cities of the world by using the perspectives of space and human-environment relationships, emphasizes issues such as climate change and international migration, and contains color photographs of over 100 cities around the world. This well-organized, one-volume study of major and distinctive cities from around the world should be a must read for both instructors and students. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.-- Choice Cities of the World is one of the most valuable introductory texts in geography. It pushes students to think critically about the complexity of our urban world by seriously engaging a world regional perspective. The new edition, like those before, continues to showcase how cities, past and present, are best understood when refracted through a critical area-studies lens and a focus on power and urban politics. Its clear, jargon-free writing, vivid illustrations, and distinctive city profiles make it eminently accessible for students of all backgrounds.--Natalie Koch, Syracuse University Efficiently organized by world subregions, this excellent collection deserves praise for its global coverage of the urban question, systematically profiling the major city-regions across the planet. The writing style is fluid and readable, and the content is full of contemporary, up-to-date material that makes the book very relevant. I highly recommend this as an undergraduate text in urban studies, geography, urban-regional planning, architecture, and related fields.--Lawrence A. Herzog, University of California, San Diego The seventh edition of Cities of the World has much that is new and is completely current. Very teachable, very readable, it will continue to serve as a solid foundation for students' initial exposure to the ways of approaching urban and regional geography.--Rickie Sanders, Temple University
The seventh edition of Cities of the World has much that is new and is completely current. Very teachable, very readable, it will continue to serve as a solid foundation for students' initial exposure to the ways of approaching urban and regional geography.--Rickie Sanders, Temple University Efficiently organized by world subregions, this excellent collection deserves praise for its global coverage of the urban question, systematically profiling the major city-regions across the planet. The writing style is fluid and readable, and the content is full of contemporary, up-to-date material that makes the book very relevant. I highly recommend this as an undergraduate text in urban studies, geography, urban-regional planning, architecture, and related fields.--Lawrence A. Herzog, University of California, San Diego Cities of the World is one of the most valuable introductory texts in geography. It pushes students to think critically about the complexity of our urban world by seriously engaging a world regional perspective. The new edition, like those before, continues to showcase how cities, past and present, are best understood when refracted through a critical area studies lens and a focus on power and urban politics. Its clear, jargon-free writing, vivid illustrations, and distinctive city profiles make it eminently accessible for students of all backgrounds.--Natalie Koch, Syracuse University
The seventh edition of Cities of the World has much that is new and is completely current. Very teachable, very readable, it will continue to serve as a solid foundation for students' initial exposure to the ways of approaching urban and regional geography.--Rickie Sanders, Temple University Efficiently organized by world subregions, this excellent collection deserves praise for its global coverage of the urban question, systematically profiling the major city-regions across the planet. The writing style is fluid and readable, and the content is full of contemporary, up-to-date material that makes the book very relevant. I highly recommend this as an undergraduate text in urban studies, geography, urban-regional planning, architecture, and related fields.--Lawrence A. Herzog, University of California, San Diego Cities of the World is one of the most valuable introductory texts in geography. It pushes students to think critically about the complexity of our urban world by seriously engaging a world regional perspective. The new edition, like those before, continues to showcase how cities, past and present, are best understood when refracted through a critical area-studies lens and a focus on power and urban politics. Its clear, jargon-free writing, vivid illustrations, and distinctive city profiles make it eminently accessible for students of all backgrounds.--Natalie Koch, Syracuse University
Efficiently organized by world sub-regions, this excellent collection deserves praise for its global coverage of the urban question, systematically profiling the major city-regions across the planet. The writing style is fluid and readable, and the content is full of contemporary, up-to-date material that makes the book very relevant. I highly recommend this as an undergraduate text in urban studies, geography, urban-regional planning, architecture, and related fields.--Lawrence A. Herzog, University of California, San Diego Cities of the World is one of the most valuable introductory texts in geography. It pushes students to think critically about the complexity of our urban world by seriously engaging a world regional perspective. The new edition, like those before, continues to showcase how cities, past and present, are best understood when refracted through a critical area studies lens and a focus on power and urban politics. Its clear, jargon-free writing, vivid illustrations, and distinctive city profiles makes it eminently accessible for students of all backgrounds.--Natalie Koch, Syracuse University
Author Information
Stanley D. Brunn is emeritus professor of geography at the University of Kentucky. Maureen Hays-Mitchell is professor of geography at Colgate University. Donald J. Zeigler is professor of geography at Old Dominion University. Jessica K. Graybill is associate professor of geography at Colgate University.
