{"product_id":"9781405189798","title":"Urban Geography A Critical Introduction","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCritical Introductions to Geography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Critical Introduction\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAndrew E. G. Jonas | Eugene McCann | Mary Thomas\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ Urban\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew E.G. Jonas holds a Chair in Human Geography at the University of Hull in the UK. His co-edited books include \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Growth Machine; Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later\u003c\/i\u003e (1999, with David Wilson), \u003ci\u003eInterrogating Alterity\u003c\/i\u003e (2010, with Duncan Fuller and Roger Lee), and \u003ci\u003eTerritory, the State and Urban Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2012, with Andy Wood). He serves on the editorial boards of \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTerritory Politics and Governance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEugene McCann is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is co-editor, with Kevin Ward, of \u003ci\u003eMobile Urbanism: Cities \u0026amp; Policymaking in the Global Age\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and, with Ronan Paddison, \u003ci\u003eCities \u0026amp; Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e Mary Thomas is Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMulticultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Social Geography\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16 March 2015\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781405189798\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e384\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378891681932,"sku":"9781405189798","price":48.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781405189798_19257f77-db05-495b-b287-9bccb461fa47.jpg?v=1780183923","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781405189798","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}