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City Worlds (Understanding Cities)
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Product Description
Analysing cities through spatial understanding, this book explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity and outlines new ways to address some of the ambiguities of cities: their promise, potential and problems.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #334792 in Books
- Published on: 1998-10-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
Editorial Reviews
Andrew Lovatt, Manchester Metropolitan University
'An excellent attempt to understand and articulate the urban world using examples from refreshingly different sources.'
From the Back Cover
City Worlds presents both an overview and the core of the argument in the Understanding Cities series. Using an integrated and interactive text City Worlds draws on our spatial imaginations to prompt a distinctive understanding of cities.
About the Author
Doreen Massey id Professor of Geography at The Open University. Her recent books include Spatial Divisions of Labour (2nd Edition), and Space, Place and Gender (1994). She is co-founder and joint editor of Soundings: a journal of politics and culture. John Allen is Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at The Open University. His recent publications include A Shrinking World? (1995, co-edited with Chris Hamnett) and Rethinking the Region (1998, with Doreen Massey and Allan Cochrane). Steve Pile is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. His recent books include The Body and the City (1996), Geographies of Resistance (1997, co-edited with Michael Keith) and Places Through the Body (1998, co-edited with Heidi J. Nast).
Customer Reviews
A Modern Perspective
This book provides the reader with a modern perspective onto cities. It is the first book of an excellent series in contemporary cities by the Open University, UK. This makes the book an extraordinary introductory text into city life.
The book takes a clear view on how we best understand cities. It is human geography that provides the key. Using concepts and theories from this subject, the reader is taken on a journey through cities from around the world. There are many examples to illustrate the argument.
Once you have finished reading the book you will not see your own city the same way any more.
