Deciphering the City
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Deciphering the City

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Well-written and extremely topical, Deciphering the City efficiently deals with the large and small issues facing cities today. A focus on globalization's impact on the role of cities, an explicit mission to drive home the applied nature of urban studies to students. This innovative text offers an exciting introduction to the history, issues, problems, potential solutions and challenges, facing cities in the developed and the developing world for the twenty-first century.
Globalization has changed the roles of cities in the global economy and this text begins with an introduction to the phenomenon of globalization, and how the changes it has brought about have affected the social, political, and economic institutions of societies. The second section of the text concentrates on the psychology of the city and the community-building process, while the book's third section illustrates the structure of cities and their historical and emerging patterns. Deciphering the City makes studying the city a relevant and interesting subject necessary in understanding the functioning of today's world.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781000153415
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1 Why Study the City?
  8. Chapter 2 Globalization and Urbanization in the More-Developed World
  9. Chapter 3 Globalization and Urbanization in the Less-Developed World
  10. Chapter 4 The City in Everyday Life
  11. Chapter 5 Community in the Modern World
  12. Chapter 6 The Community in the Postmodern Era
  13. Chapter 7 Reading the City
  14. Chapter 8 Choosing a Place to Live
  15. Chapter 9 A Home-Buying Primer: When Theory Meets the Road
  16. Chapter 10 The Suburbanization Process
  17. Chapter 11 The Segregation and Location of Groups in Cities
  18. Chapter 12 Urban Problems in the Global Era
  19. Chapter 13 Urban Planning in the Twenty-First Century
  20. Bibliography
  21. Author Index
  22. Subject Index