Urban Geography

This new edition of the leading textbook on Urban Geography offers new and revised content throughout Urban Geography provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of urban geography, exploring the origins, historical development, and current challenges of cities and metropolitan areas. Incorporating the most current research in urban studies, this acclaimed textbook introduces key elements of urban theory and methodology while addressing the urban experience in a global context. Student-friendly chapters cover central topics such as urbanization processes, discrimination in the housing market, gentrification, metropolitan governance, urban planning, and issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism. The fourth edition of Urban Geography is extensively revised and updated, with two entirely new chapters focused on urban transportation and the relationship between cities and nature, including climate change. Expanded material addressing the impact of COVID-19 and other health aspects of cities is accompanied by new information, new figures, new themes, and new pedagogical features. Capturing the excitement, richness, and dynamics of the field, Urban Geography: Introduces theories and issues associated with urban systems, including urban hierarchy, metropolitan dominance, urban-economic restructuring, and industrial urbanization Discusses contemporary debates on the structure and functioning of cities, the role of government in urban housing, urban sprawl, and geographical and political fragmentation Presents traditional models of urban social space and new factors that organize intra-urban space, such as globalization and postmodernism Analyzes issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism, with special emphasis on the geographic patterns of Latino and Asian immigration Examines cities both in the developed world and in less developed non-industrial areas Urban Geography, Fourth Edition, is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Urban Geography, as well as related courses in Urban Studies, Sociology, and Political Science programs.