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Cartographic Encounters
There's no excuse for getting lost these days-satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. …
Globalization, Modernity and the City
We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the …
Environmental Discourse and Practice
This book brings together a set of readings that throw light on the relationship between people and the environment. Provides both historical background and an analysis of key …
Human Geography: A Short Introduction
Revised and updated throughout, Human Geography: A Short Introduction, Second Edition, is an ideal choice for professors who prefer the flexibility of a succinct and incisive text …
Cities and Economies
Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the …
Geopolitics
In this cogent introduction to the state of contemporary geopolitics, Short provides an understanding of the basic themes of geopolitics and an overview of geopolitical issues …
Cities and Nature
Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the …
Imagined Country
This volume explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects …
Urban Theory
This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account …
The SAGE Companion to the City
"This book pulls together an exceptional range of literature in addressing the complexity of contemporary patterns and processes of urbanization. It offers a rich array of concepts …
New Worlds, New Geographies
Elucidates the struggles of governments and individuals to situate themselves within changing nation states and restructurings of urban spaces into a kind of global village. These …
Global Metropolitan
Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the …