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The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding.

Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.

Key Concepts in Urban Studies :

* Clearly and concisely explains the basic ideas in the interdisciplinary field of urban studies

* Offers concise discussions of concepts ranging from community, neighbourhood, and the city to globalization, the New Urbanism, feminine space, and urban problems

* Constitutes a re-examination of the key ideas in the field

* Is illustrated throughout with international examples

* Provides an essential reference guide for all students and teachers across the urban disciplines within sociology, political science, planning and geography.

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• The Chicago School
• The City
• Community
• Counties, Places, Metropolitan Statistical Area's and Other Census Definitions
• De-territorialization and Re-territorialization
• Education and Reproduction of Labor
• Environmental Concerns
• Feminine Space
• Fiscal Crisis
• Gentrification
• Ghetto and Racial Segregation
• Global Cities
• Globalization
• Homelessness
• Housing
• Immigration and Migration
• Inequality and Poverty
• The Informal Economy
• Masculine Space
• Models of Urban Growth
• Multi-Centered Metropolitan Region
• Neighborhood
• New Urbanism
• Nightlife and Urban Nightscapes
• Overurbanization: The Primate City
• Pedestrian and Automobile
• Planning - Cities, Suburbs, Metropolitan Regions
• Postmodern and Modern Urbanism
• Preservation
• Real Estate
• Slums and Shanty Towns
• Socio-spatial Approach
• Sprawl
• Suburb and Suburbanization
• Sustainable Urbanization
• Uneven Development / Boom and Bust Cycles
• Urban and Suburban Social Movements
• Urban Politics and Suburban Politics
• Urban Violence and Crime
• Urbanization and Urbanism

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CHOICE Review

This second edition is similar in purpose and format to the first (CH, Oct'05, 43-0681). It is not a ready-reference resource readers might consult for a brief definition of a term and is unlikely to get much use on the shelves of the reference collection. Rather, the authors provide short or longer essays--ranging from several paragraphs to page-long entries--on core terms and concepts in the field. The strength of this assemblage by Gottdiener (Univ. at Buffalo), Budd (The Open Univ.), and Lehtovuori (Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland) is its critical approach to the concepts and, in many entries, its overview of historical and contemporary theories and perspectives on them. The work will be valuable as an introductory or a companion reader for undergraduate and graduate students in urban studies, urban planning, urban design, and related fields, providing a starting point or context for in-depth exploration of concepts and theories. Content is substantially different from the first edition. New entries were added (e.g., "Temporary Uses and Adaptive Urbanism") and a few entries omitted to reflect changing emphases in the field. Much content was rewritten, consolidated, condensed, and updated. Geographic coverage was expanded beyond the US and UK, particularly to include perspectives and practices from Asia. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduates through researchers/faculty; professionals/practitioners. --Bruce Stoffel, Illinois State University

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Mark Gottdiener is Professor of Sociology at the University of Buffalo, New York and

Leslie Budd is Reader in Social Enterprise at the Open University Business School