Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-1-5381-2634-9 • Hardback • March 2020 • $157.00 • (£121.00)
978-1-5381-2635-6 • eBook • March 2020 • $149.00 • (£115.00)
Stanley D. Brunn is emeritus professor of geography at the University of Kentucky. Donald J. Zeigler is emeritus professor of geography at Old Dominion University. Jessica K. Graybill is associate professor of geography at Colgate University.
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Preface
1 World Urban Development
Jessica K. Graybill, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, and Donald J. Zeigler
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
The World Urban System: Prospects until 2050
World Urbanization: Past Trends
City Functions and Urban Economies
Theories of the Spatial Structure of Cities
Urban Challenges
Concepts, Terms, and Definitions
Suggested Resources
2 Cities of the United States and Canada
Nathaniel M. Lewis and Kai Kenttamaa-Squires
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Historical Overview
Models of Urban Structure
Distinctive Cities
Urban Problems and Prospects
Urban Environmental Issues
Conclusions
Suggested Resources
3 Cities of Middle America
Rebecca Clouser, Yadira Mendez-Lemus, and John C. Finn
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Historical Evolution of Urban Development
Attempts to Model Middle American Cities
Contemporary Urban Systems
Distinctive Cities
Urban Trends, Challenges, and Prospects
Conclusion
Suggested Resources
4 Cities of South America
Brian J. Godfrey, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, and Risa Whitson
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Urban Patterns and Trends in South America
Critical Issues
Historical Perspectives on South American Cities
Urban Spatial Models
Distinctive Cities
Urban Challenges and Prospects
Prospects for the Future
Suggested Resources
5 Cities of Europe
Linda McCarthy, Joseph Brady, and Niamh Moore-Cherry
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Historical Perspectives on Urban Development
Globalization, Urban Policy, and Planning
Changing Urban Structure and Functions
Urban Models
Distinctive Cities
Urban Trends, Challenges, and Prospects
Suggested Resources
6 Cities of Russia and Central Asia
Jessica K. Graybill, Megan Dixon, and Elena Trubina
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Historical Evolution of the Urban System
Contemporary Russia: Reconfiguring the Urban System
Distinctive Cities
Prospects for the Future
Suggested Resources
7 Cities of the Middle East and North Africa
Zia Salim and Donald J. Zeigler
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Historical Evolution
Urban Structures: Models and Transects
Contemporary Urban Patterns
Urban Landscapes: Form and Function
Distinctive Cities
Urban Trends, Challenges, and Prospects
Conclusion
Suggested Resources
8 Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa
Garth A. Myers, Francis Owusu, and Angela Gray Subulwa
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
African Urbanization
Historical Geography of Urban Development
Distinctive Cities
Urban Challenges
Prospects for the Future
Suggested Resources
9 Cities of South Asia
Ashok Dutt, George Pomeroy, Vandana Wadhwa, and Ishrat Islam
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Urban Patterns at the Regional Scale
Historical Perspectives on Urban Development
Models of Urban Structure
Distinctive Cities
Globalization, City Marketing, and Urban Violence
Urban Challenges
Suggested Resources
10 Cities of Southeast Asia
James Tyner and Arnisson Andre Ortega
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Historical Geography of Urban Development
Recent Urbanization Trends
Models of Urban Structure
Distinctive Cities
Urban Challenges
Prospects for the Future
Suggested Resources
11 Cities of East Asia
Piper Gaubatz and David W. Edgington
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
The Historical Development of East Asian Cities
Internal Structure of East Asian Cities
Distinctive Cities
Urban Problems and Their Solutions
Prospects for the Future
Suggested Resources
12 Cities of Australia and the Pacific Islands
Robyn Dowling and Pauline McGuirk
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Historical Foundations of Urbanism
Contemporary Urban Patterns and Processes
Distinctive Cities
Trends and Challenges
Suggested Resources
13 Cities of the Future
John Rennie Short
Key Urban Facts
Key Chapter Themes
Five Urban Imaginaries
The Global City
The Neoliberal City
The Green City
The Securitized City
The Utopian City
Conclusion
Suggested Resources
Appendix
Cover Photo Credits
About the Editors and Contributors
This important book, put together by a team of editors and contributing authors who are specialists in different regions of the world, explores major cities of the globe. The introductory chapter examines the patterns of world urban development, urban economy, theoretical aspects of cities, urban services, problems, and challenges. The 11 chapters that follow provide key urban facts, historical perspectives, profiles of distinctive cities, spatial models, urban problems, and prospects for each subregion of the world. The concluding chapter then presents five scenarios of future cities. This updated edition explains and interprets major cities of the world by using the perspectives of space and human-environment relationships, emphasizes issues such as climate change and international migration, and contains color photographs of over 100 cities around the world. This well-organized, one-volume study of major and distinctive cities from around the world should be a must read for both instructors and students. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
— Choice Reviews
Efficiently organized by world subregions, this excellent collection deserves praise for its global coverage of the urban question, systematically profiling the major city-regions across the planet. The writing style is fluid and readable, and the content is full of contemporary, up-to-date material that makes the book very relevant. I highly recommend this as an undergraduate text in urban studies, geography, urban-regional planning, architecture, and related fields.— Lawrence A. Herzog, University of California, San Diego
Cities of the World is one of the most valuable introductory texts in geography. It pushes students to think critically about the complexity of our urban world by seriously engaging a world regional perspective. The new edition, like those before, continues to showcase how cities, past and present, are best understood when refracted through a critical area-studies lens and a focus on power and urban politics. Its clear, jargon-free writing, vivid illustrations, and distinctive city profiles make it eminently accessible for students of all backgrounds.— Natalie Koch, Syracuse University
The seventh edition of Cities of the World has much that is new and is completely current. Very teachable, very readable, it will continue to serve as a solid foundation for students’ initial exposure to the ways of approaching urban and regional geography.— Rickie Sanders, Temple University
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-PowerPoints of maps, photos, tables, and figuresRecommended films and website accompany each chapterfull-color maps of regional patterns and city structurescolor photographs depicting cities and city lifeProvides a history of urban settlement in major world regionsDevelops urban models and theories related to each regionExplains urban planning and development futuresNew features- Full-color illustrations, including updated maps and new photographs
- 50 new informational boxes
- Four new chapter author teams
- Special attention to climate change and migration
- Deepened focus on urban environmental issues and social justice
- Particular emphasis on climate change and migration
- Profiles of new cities in each chapter
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