Encyclopedia of Urban and regional Studies

ANTHONY M. ORUM; DENNIS JUDE; MARISOL GARCÍA CABEZA; POW CHOON-PIEW; BRYAN ROBERTS; MARÍA MERCEDES DI VIRGILIO

Wiley Blackwell

Lugar: Nueva Jersey; Año: 2019 p. 4000

978-1-118-56845-3

This work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others.The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ?global cities?. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida.