Urban 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.
Reveals 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 develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds
List of Figures vii
List of Tables xi
List of Boxes xii
Acknowledgments xiv
Preface xvi
1 Approaching the City 1
2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography 27
3 Production, Economy, and the City 53
4 A World of Cities 77
5 Labor and the City 100
6 The City and Social Reproduction 122
7 Governing the City: The State, Urban Planning, and Politics 141
8 Experiencing Cities 162
9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City 184
10 Nature and Environment in the City 206
11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures 229
12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics 252
13 Urban Crises 274
14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures 299
Glossary 307
References 325
Index 347
