About the Book
Since it was first published, The Study of Urban Geography has established itself as the most coherent and comprehensive account of the subject. Now completely revised and updated, it still retains the basic structure of the original volume. Its central purpose is the distillation of a wide range of work, including much original research, into an effective synthesis of contemporary urban geography.
This new edition reflects the substantial developments in the field since the appearance of the third edition in 1981. There are new chapters on urban transport, on planning, and on the city under socialism. The author also examines recent advances in the geography of inequality and of welfare in cities, and in the widening and extension of the traditional dimensions of social status, ethnicity, and life cycle in patterning city space.
Contents
The Study of Urban Geography
• The Process of Urbanization
• Urban Places – Central, Periodic and Dispersed
• Hierarchies, Spheres of Influence and Urban Systems
• Central Place Theory: Problem and Development
• Urban Functions and Town Classification
• Urban Land-use: General Problems
• Planning the City
• Transport in Towns
• Urban Location of Economic Activity: CBD
• Urban Location of Economic Activity: Industry
• The Residential Area of the City
• Residential Areas of the City: The Housing Market and Institutional Influences
• Problem Areas of the City: Inner City
• Problem Areas of the City: Urban Periphery and Suburbia
• Images of the City: City Living and Use of City Space
• The Socialist City
• The City in the Developing World
• Town Plan and Townscape
• Conclusion: Urbanization and Urban Geography
About the Author / Editor
Harold Carter, formerly Gregynog Professor of Human Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
