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Hardcover:
9781137382658 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 23, 2015), cover price $112.00 | About this edition: This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory.
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9781137382641 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 23, 2015), cover price $51.00
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9783038351054 | Trans Tech Pubn, July 31, 2014, cover price $210.00
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9780199925124 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2014, cover price $49.95
We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention. Cities are an integral part of the network of globalization and important sites of modernization. Globalization, Modernity and The City weaves together broad social themes with detailed urban analysis to explore the connections between the rise of big cities, the creation of a global network and the making of the modern world. It explains the growth of big cities, the urban bias of global flows and the creation of metropolitan modernities. The text develops broad theories of the subtle and complex interactions between urbanization, globalization and modernization in a sweep of the urban experience across the globe. Thematic chapters explore the making of the modern city in profiles of the growth of urban spectaculars, the role of flanerie, the traffic issues of the modernist city, recurring issues of urban utopias and the rise of the primate city. Detailed case studies are drawn from cities in Australia, China and the USA. Urban snapshots of cities such as Atlanta, Barcelona, Istanbul, Mumbai and Seoul provide a truly global coverage. The book links together broad social themes with deep urban analysis. This well-written, accessible and illustrated text will appeal to the broad audience of all those interested in the urban present and the metropolitan future.
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9780415676922, titled "Globalization, Modernity, and the City" | Routledge, September 13, 2011, cover price $161.00 | About this edition: We live in a world of big cities.
Paperback:
9780415857888, titled "Globalization, Modernity, and the City" | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 11, 2013), cover price $54.95
Product Description: In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Meltdown that led to the Great Recession and the Giant Oil Spill. The author uses stress-testing to identify weaknesses within the "system," and examine the response to disaster...read more
Hardcover:
9781137327222 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Meltdown that led to the Great Recession and the Giant Oil Spill.
Hardcover:
9780415625555, titled "Cities and Nature" | 2 edition (Routledge, June 24, 2013), cover price $140.00 | also contains Cities & Nature
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9780415625562, titled "Cities and Nature" | 2 edition (Routledge, June 24, 2013), cover price $61.95 | also contains Cities & Nature
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9780226753645 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 30, 2012, cover price $54.00
Product Description: Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his description of the densely populated area of the northeastern United States that includes the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington...read more
Hardcover:
9781933115498 | Resources for the Future, July 1, 2007, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE.
Paperback:
9781933115504 | Resources for the Future, July 1, 2007, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE.
Hardcover:
9780815631057 | Syracuse Univ Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Uses studies, personal narratives, census figures, and other statistical data to chronicle the steady rise of urbanization, suburbanization, and metropolitanization of the United States, and explores the consequences of these changes on American communities.
Miscellaneous:
9780203508657 | Routledge, May 27, 2004, cover price $49.95
Product Description: The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the seas navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spatial sensitivity was created and a cartographic literacy was established in the increasing use of maps and the creation of a cartographic language for new mappings of the world, state, and city...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780815630234 | Syracuse Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the seas navigated, and the land surveyed.
The author explores the colorful history of mapmaking, taking readers on a fascinating tour of the ideas and idealism that influenced cartography, from the Greeks who used information gleaned from Alexander the Great's conquests to improve their maps to the medievalists, who lost the Greek knowledge of the spherical earth.
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9781552978115 | Firefly Books Ltd, September 1, 2003, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The author explores the colorful history of mapmaking, taking readers on a fascinating tour of the ideas and idealism that influenced cartography, from the Greeks who used information gleaned from Alexander the Great's conquests to improve their maps to the medievalists, who lost the Greek knowledge of the spherical earth.
Miscellaneous:
9780203418727 | 2 edition (Routledge, September 26, 2002), cover price $56.95
Product Description: Globalization is one of today's most powerful and pervasive ideas â for some a welcome dream, for others a nightmare. The term is used in the popular press as a sort of shorthand for the notion that all parts of the world are becoming more alike...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781861891020 | Reaktion Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Globalization is one of today's most powerful and pervasive ideas â for some a welcome dream, for others a nightmare.
Product Description: Representing the Republic provides an intriguing account of the mapping of America from its colonial origins to 1900. The most significant maps and mapmakers are discussed in a survey that begins with the first European mappings of New Netherlands in the early seventeenth century and concludes with the Rand McNally atlases of the 1890s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781861890863 | Reaktion Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Representing the Republic provides an intriguing account of the mapping of America from its colonial origins to 1900.
Product Description: "Imagined Country" attempts to describe the relationship between society and the physical world through representation. The myths and symbols of spaces reveal how society regards its environment. As cultural perception shifts, altered by location and time, so its representations of the physical environment change...read more
Hardcover:
9780415038546 | Routledge, May 1, 1991, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: "Imagined Country" attempts to describe the relationship between society and the physical world through representation.
Paperback:
9780815629542 | Syracuse Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Imagined Country" attempts to describe the relationship between society and the physical world through representation.
9780415058308 | Routledge, May 1, 1991, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: "Imagined Country" attempts to describe the relationship between society and the physical world through representation.
Paperback:
9780920213216, titled "Human Settlements Development: The Third World's Impact on Canada" | Univ of Winnipeg, July 1, 1986, cover price $7.00
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