Cities of North America : contemporary challenges in US and Canadian cities / edited by Lisa Benton-Short.
This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concernsђؤ́including the redistribution of economic activities, the c...
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2014]
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
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| 505 | 0 | |a List of Illustrations -- An Introduction to Cities of North America / Lisa Benton-Short -- Changing Approaches to Urban Geography / Katie Wells -- An Urban History / Robert Lewis -- Border Cities / Lindsey Sutton -- Part I: Urban Economies -- Urban Economic Restructuring / David Wilson and Matthew Anderson -- Globalization and the City / Yeong-Hyun Kim -- Part II: Urban Governance -- Urban Governance / Thomas J. Vicino -- Planning and Politics / Amanda Huron -- Part III: Urban Social/Cultural Challenges -- Urban Inequities / Deborah G. Martin -- Urban Demographics and Identities / Nathaniel M. Lewis -- Suburban Challenges / Bernadette Hanlon -- Part IV: The Urban Environment -- Cities and Pollution / Lisa Benton-Short and Christopher DeSousa -- Cities and Hazards / John P. Tiefenbacher -- Urban Sustainability / Geoff Buckley -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors. | |
| 520 | |a This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concernsђؤ́including the redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of manufacturing, manufacturing, increased social polarization and how to plan a sustainable future. The book explores how the combined processes of urbanization and globalization have added new responsibilities for city governments at the same time leaders are grappling with planning, economic development and finance, justice, equity, and social cohesion. Introducing contemporary spatial arrangements and distributions of activities in metropolitan areas, this clear and accessible book covers economic, social, political, and ecological changes. It is also the only text to include the physical geography of urban areas. Bringing together leading geographers, it will be an ideal resource for courses on urban geography and geography of the city. | ||
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