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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface to the third edition
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue
• Introduction
• Copyright acknowledgements
• PART ONE: THE STUDY OF URBAN GEOGRAPHY
• Chapter 1 Urban geography: from global to local
• Introduction
• Global trigger factors
• Globalisation
• Glocalisation: the localisation of the global
• The question of space and scale
• Local and historical contingency
• Processes of urban change
• Urban outcomes
• Why study urban geography?
• Chapter 2 Concepts and theory in urban geography
• Introduction
• The scope of urban geography
• Defining the urban
• The significance of space and place
• The value of the urban dimension
• A brief history of urban geography
• In search of common ground
• Levels of analysis in urban geography
• PART TWO: AN URBANISING WORLD
• Chapter 3 The origins and growth of cities
• Introduction
• Preconditions for urban growth
• Theories of urban origins
• Early urban hearths
• The spread of urbanism
• Urban revival in Western Europe
• The medieval town
• The preconditions for industrial urbanism
• Early modern urbanism
• The form of the industrial city
• Residential segregation
• Housing the poor
• The other side of the coin
• The origins of urban USA
• The westward progress of urbanism
• Post-industrial urbanism
• The quartering of urban space
• The post-industrial/postmodern city
• Chapter 4 The global context of urbanisation and urban change
• Introduction
• The urbanisation of the globe
• The changing distribution of the world’s urban population
• The causes of urban growth
• Urbanisation and economic growth
• The urbanisation cycle
• A ‘stages of urban development’ model
• Types of urbanised regions
• Chapter 5 Regional perspectives on urbanisation and urban change
• Introduction
• North America
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Western Europe
• East and Central Europe
• Asia and the Pacific
• Africa
• Chapter 6 National urban systems
• Introduction
• National urban systems and the outside world
• Types of places in the national urban system
• Theories of the urban system
• PART THREE: URBAN STRUCTURE AND LAND USE IN THE WESTERN CITY
• Chapter 7 Land use in the city
• Introduction
• Urban morphogenesis
• Ecological models of the city
• Modifications of the classical urban models
• A political economy perspective
• Major actors in the production of the built environment
• Growth coalitions
• The central business district
• Urban architecture
• Public space in the postmodern city
• Architecture and urban meaning
• The social construction of the urban landscape
• Chapter 8 Urban planning and policy
• Introduction
• The roots of urban planning
• Post-war urban planning in the UK
• Urban policy in the UK
• Urban planning in the USA
• Planning the socialist city
• Socialist urban form
• Towards planning for sustainable urban development
• Chapter 9 New towns
• Introduction
• The British new towns
• New towns in Europe
• New towns in the Third World
• New communities in the USA
• Chapter 10 Residential mobility and neighbourhood change
• Introduction
• Why people move
• The decision to move
• The search for a new home
• Housing markets
• Neighbourhood change
• Housing abandonment
• Gentrification
• Chapter 11 Housing problems and housing policy
• Introduction
• Trends in housing tenure in the UK
• Public housing in the USA
• Housing affordability
• Homelessness
• Strategies to improve housing quality
• Alternative housing strategies
• Balanced communities
• Chapter 12 Urban retailing
• Introduction
• Shopertainment
• Spaces and places of consumption
• The spatial switching of retail capital
• Urban retail structure
• The changing structure of urban retailing
• The growth of suburban shopping centres in North America
• The impact of retail decentralisation on the US CBD
• Concentration versus decentralisation in Britain
• Disadvantaged consumers
• Chapter 13 Urban transportation
• Introduction
• Patterns of travel demand
• The urban transport problem
• Responses to the urban transport problem
• Transport and sustainable urban development
• PART FOUR: LIVING IN THE CITY: ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN THE WESTERN CITY
• Chapter 14 The economy of cities
• Introduction
• The world/global economy
• The world economy in the post-war era
• Transnational corporations and the state in the global economy
• New production systems and new industrial spaces
• Deindustrialisation and tertiarisation
• The nature of work and the division of labour
• Urban change within the global economy
• Chapter 15 Poverty and deprivation in the Western city
• Introduction
• Theories of deprivation
• The nature of deprivation
• The underclass
• Dimensions of multiple deprivation
• Financial exclusion
• The geography of deprivation
• The inner-city problem
• The outer-city problem
• Deprivation and the area-based approach
• Chapter 16 National and local responses to urban economic change
• Introduction
• Urban regeneration in the UK from the top down
• Urban policy in the USA
• Public–private partnerships
• Property-led regeneration
• Cultural industries and urban reconstruction
• Urban tourism and downtown redevelopment
• The market-led approach to urban development
• Urban regeneration from the bottom up
• The community/social economy
• The black economy
• Chapter 17 Collective consumption and social justice in the city
• Introduction
• Welfare needs and provision
• The changing nature of the welfare state
• The theory of public goods
• Theories of public-service provision
• Efficiency, equity and equality in public service provision
• The suburban exploitation thesis
• Deinstitutionalisation
• Educational services in the city
• Social justice and welfare
• Chapter 18 Residential differentiation and communities in the city
• Introduction
• The identification of residential areas
• Sense of place
• Difference and identity in the city
• The urban community
• The bases of residential segregation
• Ethnic areas in the US city
• Ethnic areas in the British city
• Chapter 19 Urban liveability
• Introduction
• Rating places
• Theories of urban impact
• Environmental stressors
• Site design and social behaviour
• Residential satisfaction
• Urban sub-areas
• Women in the city
• Elderly people in the city
• Young people in the city
• Disabled people in the city
• Towards the liveable city
• Chapter 20 Power, politics and urban governance
• Introduction
• The role of local government
• Constraints on local government
• The spatial structure of local government
• City growth, annexation and incorporation in the USA
• Negative consequences of fragmented government
• The politics of secession
• Metropolitan government
• Power in the city
• Participation strategies
• Urban social movements
• PART FIVE: URBAN GEOGRAPHY IN THE THIRD WORLD
• Chapter 21 Third World urbanisation within a Global Urban System
• Introduction
• Urbanisation in the First and Third Worlds
• Theories of urbanisation and development
• Third World urbanisation in historical context
• Stages of colonial urbanisation
• Peripheral urbanisation
• Exo-urbanisation
• Urbanisation by implosion
• Chapter 22 Internal structure of Third World cities
• Introduction
• Cities of Latin America
• Africa’s cities
• Cities of the Middle East and North Africa
• The city in South Asia
• The South East Asian city
• The Chinese city
• Chapter 23 Rural–urban migration in the Third World
• Introduction
• Why people move
• Structural determinants of migration
• Who migrates?
• Migration strategies
• The policy response
• Chapter 24 Urban economy and employment in the Third World
• Introduction
• The evolution of the Third World urban economy
• The structure of the urban economy
• Employment relations in the Third World urban economy
• Labour market structure
• Job access
• Unemployment, underemployment and misemployment
• Women in the labour force
• Child labour
• The household economy and coping strategies
• Chapter 25 Housing the Third World urban poor
• Introduction
• The main sources of housing for the urban poor
• Housing sub-markets and the urban poor
• Squatter settlements
• Security of tenure
• Housing finance
• Urban land markets and the poor
• Informal settlements: generative or parasitic?
• Government housing policy
• Chapter 26 Environmental problems in Third World cities
• Introduction
• The domestic environment
• The workplace environment
• The neighbourhood environment
• The city environment
• The city’s ecological footprint
• Chapter 27 Health in the Third World City
• Introduction
• The epidemiological transition
• Factors determining health status
• An urban penalty?
• Intra-urban variations in health
• Diseases of the urban poor
• Primary health care and the urban poor
• Malnutrition
• Combating urban malnutrition
• Integrated approaches to primary health care
• Chapter 28 Traffic and transport in the Third World city
• Introduction
• Traffic problems
• Transport and Third World urban form
• Public transport
• Non-motorised transport
• Rail-based transit systems
• Urban transport strategies in the Third World
• Chapter 29 Poverty, power and politics in the Third World city
• Introduction
• The social relations of power
• Partiality, inequality and the soft state
• The bases of social power
• Patron–client relations
• Urban social movements
• Community-based organisations
• Christian base communities
• Urban NGOs in the Third World
• Community participation in Third World urban governance
• Globalisation and social justice
• PART SIX: PROSPECTIVE – THE FUTURE OF THE CITY: CITIES OF THE FUTURE
• Chapter 30 The future of the city – cities of the future
• Introduction
• Sustainable urban development
• Urban metabolism
• Towards the city of the future
• The study of urban geography
• Notes
• Useful web sites
• Glossary