Study of urban geography (Record no. 32988)
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| fixed length control field | 05334nam a2200169Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0713165898 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 711.4 |
| Item number | CAR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Carter, Harold |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Study of urban geography |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Ed. 4 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Arnold |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii,420p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgements xv 1 The Study of Urban Geography 1.1Introduction The Process of Urbanization 10 2.1Definition of the urban population 10 2.2 Measurement of urban areas 14 2.3 The facts of urbanization 17 2.4 The causes of urbanization 19 2.5 Conclusion: nature of the urbanization process 22 Urban Places - Central, Periodic and Dispersed 25 3.1Introduction 25 3.2 Central place theory 27 3.3 The rank-size distribution of cities 35 3.4 Primate city distribution 36 3.5 Conclusion 37 Hierarchies, Spheres of Influence and Urban Systems 39 4.1Introduction 39 4.2 Methods of establishing hierarchies 39 4.3 Methods of establishing tributary or market areas 41 4.4General central place analysis and its application 44 4.5 Recent studies of urban structure: national and 51 international 4.6 Conclusion 58 Central Place Theory: Problems and Development 61 5.1Early problems derived from empirical studies 61 5.2Primitive and periodic markets 63 5.3The intra-urban hierarchy 66 5.4 Problems of cultural and behavioural variation 77 5.5 Retail geography 83 5.6 Historical change and the central place system 85 5.7 Conclusion 95 6 Urban Functions and Town Classification 99 6.1Introduction 99 6.2 Systems of classification 100 6.3Specialized functions and urban growth 108 6.4Quality of life in towns 112 6.5Booming towns and sunbelts 120 6.6Conclusion 122 7 Urban Land-Use: General Problems 125 7.1Introduction 125 7.2Human ecology and urban land-use 126 7.3 Land economics and urban land-use 136 7.4Activity systems and urban land-use 139 7.5 The galactic metropolis 141 7.6 Conclusion 142 8 Planning the City 143 8.1Introduction 143 8.2 The town planning revolutionaries 144 8.3The urban Utopians 145 8.4Creative pragmatists in town planning 147 8.5Development engineers and town planning 149 8.6Practising pragmatists of town planning 150 8.7 Advantage preservers in town planning 150 8.8The corrupt in town planning 151 8.9Conclusion 151 9 Transport in Towns 152 9.1Introduction 152 9.2Analysis of movement 153 9.3 Urban traffic problems and solutions 158 9.4 Transport and land-use 160 10 Urban Location of Economic Activity: CBD 163 10.1 Introduction 163 10.2 Definition: problems and consequences 163 10.3 Historical processes and the CBD 167 10.4 Retailing in the CBD 177 10.5 Conclusion 188 11 Urban Location of Economic Activity: Industry and Office Uses 190 11.1 Introduction 190 11.2 Industry in the city 193 11.3 Office location in the city 200 11.4 Conclusion 210 12The Residential Area of the City 212 12.1 Introduction: a brief evolutionary review 212 12.2 Social areas of the city: a general consideration 220 12.3 Social characteristics of residential areas 221 12.4 Residential patterns: the problem of disaggregation 233 and residential choice 12.5 Conclusion 239 13 Residential Areas of the City: the Housing Market and Institutional Influences 240 13.1 Introduction 240 13.2 Private and public housing in Britain 242 13.3 Markets in housing 243 13.4 Municipal or council housing 244 13.5 Owner-occupied housing 249 13.6 Three examples of housing development 253 13.7 Conclusion 260 14Problem Areas of the City: Inner City 261 14.1 Introduction 261 14.2 Ethnic segregation or the urban ghetto 261 14.3 Institutionalized ethnic segregation: the apartheid city 276 14.4 Intra-urban inequalities: multiple deprivation and 279 the inner city 14.5 Solutions to inner city problems ' 286 14.6 Intra-urban pathologies 288 14.7 The inner city: the reality 293 14.8 Gentrification 294 15Problem Areas of the City: Urban Periphery and Suburbia 299 15.1 Introduction 299 15.2 The municipal housing estate 299 15.3 The defended suburbs 301 15.4 Rural-urban fringe 303 15.5 Conclusion 307 16Images of the City: City Living and Use of City Space 309 16.1 Introduction: approaches to perception studies 309 16.2 A typology of urban perception 310 16.3 City image and socio-economic status 312 16.4 City image and ethnicity 313 16.5 City image and the life cycle 318 16.6 Gender and the city320 16.7 Practical and academic relevance 323 17The Socialist City 325 17.1 Introduction 325 17.2 Socialist city systems 326 17.3 Internal structure of socialist cities 329 17.4 Conclusion 334 18 The City in the Developing World 336 18.1 Introduction 336 18.2 City systems in developing countries 336 18.3 Intra-urban characteristics of developing countries 341 18.4 Conclusion 356 19 Town Plan and Townscape 357 19.1 Introduction 357 19.2 Town plan: isolation of dominant creative forces 359 19.3 Town plan analysis 368 19.4 Behavioural and decision-making approaches 374 19.5 Conservation 376 19.6 Conclusion 377 20 Conclusion: Urbanization and Urban Geography 378 20.1 Introduction 378 20.2 Attitudes to the city 378 20.3 Changing nature of the city 382 20.4 The city of the future 383 20.5 The city and social justice 385 20.6 Conclusion 386 References 388 Index 413 |
| 890 ## - COUNTRY | |
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| 891 ## - TOPIC | |
| -- | School of Planning, CEPT Uni. |
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| Faculty of Planning | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 06/02/2011 | Books India | 975.00 | 9 | 13 | 711.4 CAR | 007614 | 13/12/2017 | 05/12/2017 | 30/08/2013 | Book | Status:Catalogued;Bill No:45606 |