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Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of study within modern geography, with strong interdisciplinary connections with the humanities and the social sciences. The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides an international and in-depth overview of the field with chapters that examine the history, present condition and future significance of historical geography in relation to recent developments and current research. The Handbook is in two volumes, divided across nine parts. Volume One includes commentaries on the history and geography of historical geography, and reviews how historical geographers have considered the appropriation, management and representation of landscape, the changing geographies of property, land, money and financial capital, and the demographic, medical and political analysis of the world's growing and mobile population. Volume Two shows how historical geographers have made significant contributions to geopolitical debates about the relationships between nation-states and empires, to environmental challenges posed by human interaction with the natural world, to studies of the cultural, intellectual and political implications of modern science and technology, and to investigations of communicative action, artefacts, performances and representations. The final part reviews the methodological and ethical challenges of historical geography as a publicly engaged research practice. Part 1: Histories and Geographies; Part 2: Land and Landscapes; Part 3: Property and Money; Part 4: Population and Mobility; Part 5: Territory and Geopolitics; Part 6: Environment and Nature; Part 7: Science and Technology; Part 8: Meaning and Communication; and Part 9: Studies in Practice.
Global Cityscapes
Global Cityscapes
Introduction
It would take a magisterial tome to relate the entire history of how the world's global cityscapes have been made (e.g. Soja 2000). That is not my aim here. Instead, I make an argument for the valuable lessons which historical geography offers for the urban studies literature on global cities, and for the importance of conceptualizing with the global South when examining global urbanization processes. I begin with the debate about what global cityscapes are, a debate which turns on their making. All cities are and have almost always been global in some sense – they are all made up of connections across space, as they are palimpsests of centuries of history. But in urban studies, they were not always ...
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