Key concepts in urban studies /
Gottdiener, Mark,author.
Budd, Leslie,1949-author.
Credo Reference (Firm),distributor.
Key Concepts in Urban Studies is an essential companion for students of urban studies, urban sociology, urban politics, urban planning and urban development.
About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Second Edition -- The Chicago School -- The City -- The City and beyond -- Classifications and definitions of places -- Community development programs -- Cultures and lifestyles -- De-territorialization and re-territorialization -- Financial and fiscal crises -- Gendered spaces -- Gentrification and urban redevelopment -- Global cities and regionalization -- Globalization and meltdown -- Housing -- Immigration, migration and demography -- Inequality and poverty -- The informal economy -- Models of urban growth -- Modern urban planning -- Multi-centered metropolitan regions -- Neighborhood -- Nightscapes and urban escapades -- Planning and public space -- Preservation and conservation -- The primate city -- Real estate -- Segregation and hypersegregation -- Slums and shanty towns -- Social production of space -- Sprawl -- Suburbs and suburbanization -- Sustainable urbanization -- Temporary uses and adaptive urbanism -- Urban and suburban politics -- Urban violence and crime -- Urbanization and urbanism.
Key Concepts in Urban Studies is an essential companion for students of urban studies, urban sociology, urban politics, urban planning and urban development.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title page of print version.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns.
Cities and towns

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