Urban Geography by Andrew E. G. Jonas, Eugene McCann, Mary Th... - 9781405189804

Urban GeographyA Critical Introduction\nAuthor(s): Andrew E. G. Jonas, Eugene McCann, Mary Thomas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405189804, 978-1405189804\nSynopsis\nUrban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities.\nReveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites Shows readers how to devels