Author: Carter Harold
Place: London
Publisher: Arnold
Year: 1995
Pages: 420
ISBN: 9780713165890
Subject: Urbanisation
Sub-Subject: Urban Planning/ Urban Development
Keyword: Urban Planning, Urban Geography, Urban Research, Western Countries Housing
Classification: 307.1416
Shelf: C1R3
Accession No: B285
Contents: Preface, Acknowledgements, The Study of Urban Geography, The Process of Urbanization, Urban Place- Central, Periodic and Dispersed, Hierarchies, Spheres of Influence and Urban Systems, Central Place Theory: Problems and Development Urban Function and Town Classification, Urban Land-Use: General Problems, Planning the City, Transport in Towns, Urban Location of Economic Activity: CBD, Urban Location of Economic Activity: Industry, The Residential Area of City, Residential Areas of the City: The Housing Market and Institutional Influences, Problem Areas of the City: Inner City, Problem Areas of the City: Urban Periphery and Suburbia, Images of the City: City Living and Use of City Space, The Socialist City, The City in the Developing World, Town Plan and Townscape, Conclusion: Urbanization and Urban Geography, References, Index/ Since it was first published in 1972, ‘The Study of Urban Geography’ has established itself as the most coherent and extensive account of its subject. Its central purpose is the distillation of a wide range of work, much of it original research, into an effective synthesis of contemporary urban geography.In this new edition, Harold Carter has substantially revised and updated the text. He has also added six new chapters on places – periodic, central, and dispersed; town plan and layout; urban location of economic activity; the city centre; the articulation of residential areas; and the housing market in western countries.
Abstract: Since it was first published in 1972, ‘The Study of Urban Geography’ has established itself as the most coherent and extensive account of its subject. Its central purpose is the distillation of a wide range of work, much of it original research, into an effective synthesis of contemporary urban geography.In this new edition, Harold Carter has substantially revised and updated the text. He has also added six new chapters on places – periodic, central, and dispersed; town plan and layout; urban location of economic activity; the city centre; the articulation of residential areas; and the housing market in western countries.