Summary
Contents
Subject index
The Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies. Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character
The City as Environment
Introduction to Part II
Cities form distinctive types of built environment; in turn, the growth of cities has significant effects on the physical environments in which they are located. While they are the chief loci of power and control in the world economy, as well as nationally ...
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