Introduction to Urban Studies
4th Edition
Will be published approx. on 8. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
370 pages
978-1-4652-0307-6 (ISBN)
Description
Introduction to Urban Studies, now in its fourth edition, was the first comprehensive textbook in the field of urban studies. Many urban scholars have contributed original chapters to this text in which they explore the spatial and functional relationships of cities through the lenses of their disciplines. Undergraduate students are introduced to traditional fields of study as well as professional areas, ranging from history and psychology to public administration and urban planning. Students will gain the ability to integrate concepts, theories, and methods gained from these disciplines. They will also come to a clearer understanding of what urban scholars mean when they refer to the ""urban tapestry"" or the ""metropolitan mosaic"". The chapters contain examples of current urban practices germane to each discipline as well as historical and legislative backgrounds when applicable. Students will become familiar with noted urban practitioners who apply or have applied the theoretical approaches outlined in the text. They will then begin to comprehend the practical world of urban policy-making, administration, and planning. Introduction to Urban Studies is not only for urban studies majors, but it can also provide a valuable introduction to American cities for students in such programs as urban planning, architecture, community development, pre-law, public administration, and environmental science.
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Edition
Fourth Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
ISBN-13
978-1-4652-0307-6 (9781465203076)
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Content
- Prologue by Robert J. Waste
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Part I Urban Places
- Ch. 1 The City Evolves (History) by Thomas F. Campbell
- Images of the City
- The Growth of Cities
- The Roman Empire
- Europe
- North America
- Early Cities in the United States
- Ch.2 The City Relies on Its Foundations (Geology) by Michael J. Tevesz and John T. Fleshin
- Introduction
- Building Up
- Slopes and Slope Stability
- Expansive Soil and Subsidence
- Stone Roots, Stone Bark, Stone Foliage
- Building Materials
- Forces That Tear Down
- Change and Decay: Weathering
- Relation of Weathering, Erosional Processes, and Cities
- Coastal Processes
- Streams, Rivers, Falls, Rapids, and Location of Cities
- How People Affect Streams
- Floods and Their Impact
- Storms, Streams, and Flash Floods
- Environmental Consequences to Cities Caused by Dam Building on Streams
- Cities and Violent Geological Forces
- Earthquakes
- Causes of Earthquakes
- Where Earthquakes Occur
- Damage to Cities Caused by Earthquakes
- Seismic Sea Waves Caused by Earthquakes
- Earthquake Prediction and Prevention
- Volcanoes
- Dealing with Volcanic Hazards
- Ch. 3 The City Builds (Architecture and Design) by J. Peter Shannon Jr.
- The Ecological and Cultural Contexts of Architecture
- Defining Architecture
- Speaking Architecture
- Historical Eras
- Enlightening Architecture
- Diversifying Architecture
- Ch. 4 The City Organizes Its Space (Geography) by Virginia O. Benson
- Location Theories
- External Factors
- Von Thunen's Model
- Weber's Model
- Christaller's Central Place Model
- Internal Factors
- Growth Models
- Burgess' Concentric Zone Model
- Hoyt's Sector Model
- Edward Ullmann's Multiple Nuclei Model
- Summary of Location Models
- Migration Concepts
- Scale
- Life Cycle Stages
- Push-Pull Factors
- Summary of Migration Concepts
- Transportation Concepts
- Properties of Transportation Costs
- Summary of Transportation Concepts
- Geographic Information and Global Positioning Systems
- Geographies of the Future
- Part II Urban Processes
- Ch. 5 The City Looks Ahead (Urban Planning)by W. Dennis Keating
- Origins and Evolution of City Planning
- The Organization and Administration of Municipal Planning
- The Legal Basis for Planning
- Ballot Box Zoning
- Eminent Domain for Redevelopment
- Urban Plans, the Planning Process, and Plan Implementation
- Other Planning Entities
- Advocacy and Social Planning
- Equity Planning
- Smart Growth
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Waterfront Redevelopment
- Historic Preservation
- The Politics of Planning
- Ch. 6 The City Worships (Sacred Landmarks) by Harvey K. Newman and Michael J. Tevesz
- Religion and the Origin of Cities
- Immigrants, Religion, and Cities
- Colonial to Civil War
- Modern Period
- The Impact of Cities on Religious Groups: Two Views
- Louis Wirth
- Claude Fischer
- The Impact of Religious Groups
- 7 The city Governs (Political Science) by Mittie Davis Jones
- Political Background
- Local Governance Structures
- Political Reform
- Evolution of African-American Leadership
- Local Government Finance
- Intergovernmental Issues
- 8 The City Manages (Public/City Management) by Gerald M. Neumark
- The Role of City Managers
- The Public Manager as a Leader
- Politics and the City Manager
- Towards the Future of Public Managers
- 9 The City Maintains Itself (Public Works) by Claire L. Felbinger
- What Are Public Works?
- Issues of Infrastructure and Maintenance
- Federally Influenced Deferred maintenance
- Deferral of Maintenance of ""Hidden"" Systems
- Balancing Financial Tradeoffs
- Lack of Political Payoff
- Maintenance Strategies
- Maintaining Human Infrastructure
- Delivering Local Services Effectively
- Identifying the Nature of Goods and Services
- Alternate Methods of Service Delivery
- Managing Local Services
- Equality versus Equity
- Efficiency versus Effectiveness
- Ethics
- 10 The City Grows (Economic Development) by Claudette A.Robey and James E.Robey
- Theories of Urban Economic Growth
- Government Policies and urban Development
- Federal Policies
- State Policies
- County Policies
- Special Entity Policies and Districts
- Policy Implications
- 11 The City Sustains Itself (Environmental Studies) by Sandra Kaufman
- The Urban Environment
- Urban Physical Structure
- Urban Outdoors
- Urban Indoors
- Urban Service Systems
- Global Urban Issues
- The Nature of Urban Environmental Problems
- Environmental Complexity and Interrelatedness
- Individual and Collective Decisions
- Urban Environmental Remedies
- Goals for Action
- Pioneering Solutions
- 12 The City Regulates Itself (Law) byt Lesley Wells
- Introduction
- Sign Language
- Actions Speaks
- Assault on Assault weapons
- Voting Rights
- Minority Sets-Asides
- Poor Joshua
- Preserving History
- Taking Private Land
- The Homeless
- Taking Out the Garbage
- Conclusion
- Part III Urban People and Cultures
- 13 The City Worships (Religion) by Harvey K. Newman
- Religion and the Origin of Cities
- Immigrants, Religion, and Cities
- Colonial Times to Civil War
- Modern Period
- The Impact of Cities on Religious Groups: Two Views
- Louis Wirth
- Claude Fischer
- The Impact of Religious Groups on Cities: Two Views
- Conservers of the Status Quo
- Agents of Change
- The Concerned Black Clergy of Atlanta
- Religion and Politics
- Congregations and Neighborhoods
- Activities of Congregations in Cities
- Work and Education
- Artistic Work
- Constitutional Issues Involving Congregations and Cities
- Conclusion
- 14 The City Explores its Behavior (Psychology) By Roberta Stienbacher and Faith D. Gilroy
- Human Psychological Needs
- Crime and Punishment
- The Effectiveness of Punishment
- Intensity
- Generalization
- Schedule
- Perceptions of the City
- The Subjective Witness
- Bystander Intervention
- Attribution Theory
- Heuristics
- The City: A Crowded Place?
- Crowds and Stress
- Effects of Crowding
- Group Behavior and Conformity
- Authority and Individual Values
- 15 The City Confronts Social Issues by Wornie Reed
- The Development of Urban Sociology
- Current Approaches in Urban Sociology
- External Factors
- Social Factors
- Social Policies
- Employment
- Education
- Internal Factors: Community Forces
- Summary
- 16 The City Encounters Diversity (Anthropology) by Dorothy Remy
- A Systems Approach to Urban Ethnicity
- City Life and Global Economics
- Pathways through the City
- The Path of Kinship
- the Pathway of Friends
- The Pathway of the Patron-Client Bond
- The Pathway of Language
- A Story
- Where Pathways Intersect: The Organs of the City
- Leadership Amid Contradictions
- 17 The City Evolves into Megacities (Global Demography) by Ashok K. Dutt, AninditaParai and Rajiv R. Thakur
- The Nature of Urbanization in Asia
- Population Growth and Push/Pull Factors
- Housing Problems and Proliferation of Slums
- Urban Unemployment
- Environmental Pollution
- Deviant Behavior
- New Global Urbanization Trends: Impact on Urbanization
- Future Outlook
- Part IV Urban Prospects
- 18 The City Faces Its Future: Technology and the Future of the City (Future Studies) by Jun Koo
- Why City?
- Demise of the City
- City Reloaded
- Bifurcation of the Future
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Part I Urban Places
- Ch. 1 The City Evolves (History) by Thomas F. Campbell
- Images of the City
- The Growth of Cities
- The Roman Empire
- Europe
- North America
- Early Cities in the United States
- Ch.2 The City Relies on Its Foundations (Geology) by Michael J. Tevesz and John T. Fleshin
- Introduction
- Building Up
- Slopes and Slope Stability
- Expansive Soil and Subsidence
- Stone Roots, Stone Bark, Stone Foliage
- Building Materials
- Forces That Tear Down
- Change and Decay: Weathering
- Relation of Weathering, Erosional Processes, and Cities
- Coastal Processes
- Streams, Rivers, Falls, Rapids, and Location of Cities
- How People Affect Streams
- Floods and Their Impact
- Storms, Streams, and Flash Floods
- Environmental Consequences to Cities Caused by Dam Building on Streams
- Cities and Violent Geological Forces
- Earthquakes
- Causes of Earthquakes
- Where Earthquakes Occur
- Damage to Cities Caused by Earthquakes
- Seismic Sea Waves Caused by Earthquakes
- Earthquake Prediction and Prevention
- Volcanoes
- Dealing with Volcanic Hazards
- Ch. 3 The City Builds (Architecture and Design) by J. Peter Shannon Jr.
- The Ecological and Cultural Contexts of Architecture
- Defining Architecture
- Speaking Architecture
- Historical Eras
- Enlightening Architecture
- Diversifying Architecture
- Ch. 4 The City Organizes Its Space (Geography) by Virginia O. Benson
- Location Theories
- External Factors
- Von Thunen's Model
- Weber's Model
- Christaller's Central Place Model
- Internal Factors
- Growth Models
- Burgess' Concentric Zone Model
- Hoyt's Sector Model
- Edward Ullmann's Multiple Nuclei Model
- Summary of Location Models
- Migration Concepts
- Scale
- Life Cycle Stages
- Push-Pull Factors
- Summary of Migration Concepts
- Transportation Concepts
- Properties of Transportation Costs
- Summary of Transportation Concepts
- Geographic Information and Global Positioning Systems
- Geographies of the Future
- Part II Urban Processes
- Ch. 5 The City Looks Ahead (Urban Planning)by W. Dennis Keating
- Origins and Evolution of City Planning
- The Organization and Administration of Municipal Planning
- The Legal Basis for Planning
- Ballot Box Zoning
- Eminent Domain for Redevelopment
- Urban Plans, the Planning Process, and Plan Implementation
- Other Planning Entities
- Advocacy and Social Planning
- Equity Planning
- Smart Growth
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Waterfront Redevelopment
- Historic Preservation
- The Politics of Planning
- Ch. 6 The City Worships (Sacred Landmarks) by Harvey K. Newman and Michael J. Tevesz
- Religion and the Origin of Cities
- Immigrants, Religion, and Cities
- Colonial to Civil War
- Modern Period
- The Impact of Cities on Religious Groups: Two Views
- Louis Wirth
- Claude Fischer
- The Impact of Religious Groups
- 7 The city Governs (Political Science) by Mittie Davis Jones
- Political Background
- Local Governance Structures
- Political Reform
- Evolution of African-American Leadership
- Local Government Finance
- Intergovernmental Issues
- 8 The City Manages (Public/City Management) by Gerald M. Neumark
- The Role of City Managers
- The Public Manager as a Leader
- Politics and the City Manager
- Towards the Future of Public Managers
- 9 The City Maintains Itself (Public Works) by Claire L. Felbinger
- What Are Public Works?
- Issues of Infrastructure and Maintenance
- Federally Influenced Deferred maintenance
- Deferral of Maintenance of ""Hidden"" Systems
- Balancing Financial Tradeoffs
- Lack of Political Payoff
- Maintenance Strategies
- Maintaining Human Infrastructure
- Delivering Local Services Effectively
- Identifying the Nature of Goods and Services
- Alternate Methods of Service Delivery
- Managing Local Services
- Equality versus Equity
- Efficiency versus Effectiveness
- Ethics
- 10 The City Grows (Economic Development) by Claudette A.Robey and James E.Robey
- Theories of Urban Economic Growth
- Government Policies and urban Development
- Federal Policies
- State Policies
- County Policies
- Special Entity Policies and Districts
- Policy Implications
- 11 The City Sustains Itself (Environmental Studies) by Sandra Kaufman
- The Urban Environment
- Urban Physical Structure
- Urban Outdoors
- Urban Indoors
- Urban Service Systems
- Global Urban Issues
- The Nature of Urban Environmental Problems
- Environmental Complexity and Interrelatedness
- Individual and Collective Decisions
- Urban Environmental Remedies
- Goals for Action
- Pioneering Solutions
- 12 The City Regulates Itself (Law) byt Lesley Wells
- Introduction
- Sign Language
- Actions Speaks
- Assault on Assault weapons
- Voting Rights
- Minority Sets-Asides
- Poor Joshua
- Preserving History
- Taking Private Land
- The Homeless
- Taking Out the Garbage
- Conclusion
- Part III Urban People and Cultures
- 13 The City Worships (Religion) by Harvey K. Newman
- Religion and the Origin of Cities
- Immigrants, Religion, and Cities
- Colonial Times to Civil War
- Modern Period
- The Impact of Cities on Religious Groups: Two Views
- Louis Wirth
- Claude Fischer
- The Impact of Religious Groups on Cities: Two Views
- Conservers of the Status Quo
- Agents of Change
- The Concerned Black Clergy of Atlanta
- Religion and Politics
- Congregations and Neighborhoods
- Activities of Congregations in Cities
- Work and Education
- Artistic Work
- Constitutional Issues Involving Congregations and Cities
- Conclusion
- 14 The City Explores its Behavior (Psychology) By Roberta Stienbacher and Faith D. Gilroy
- Human Psychological Needs
- Crime and Punishment
- The Effectiveness of Punishment
- Intensity
- Generalization
- Schedule
- Perceptions of the City
- The Subjective Witness
- Bystander Intervention
- Attribution Theory
- Heuristics
- The City: A Crowded Place?
- Crowds and Stress
- Effects of Crowding
- Group Behavior and Conformity
- Authority and Individual Values
- 15 The City Confronts Social Issues by Wornie Reed
- The Development of Urban Sociology
- Current Approaches in Urban Sociology
- External Factors
- Social Factors
- Social Policies
- Employment
- Education
- Internal Factors: Community Forces
- Summary
- 16 The City Encounters Diversity (Anthropology) by Dorothy Remy
- A Systems Approach to Urban Ethnicity
- City Life and Global Economics
- Pathways through the City
- The Path of Kinship
- the Pathway of Friends
- The Pathway of the Patron-Client Bond
- The Pathway of Language
- A Story
- Where Pathways Intersect: The Organs of the City
- Leadership Amid Contradictions
- 17 The City Evolves into Megacities (Global Demography) by Ashok K. Dutt, AninditaParai and Rajiv R. Thakur
- The Nature of Urbanization in Asia
- Population Growth and Push/Pull Factors
- Housing Problems and Proliferation of Slums
- Urban Unemployment
- Environmental Pollution
- Deviant Behavior
- New Global Urbanization Trends: Impact on Urbanization
- Future Outlook
- Part IV Urban Prospects
- 18 The City Faces Its Future: Technology and the Future of the City (Future Studies) by Jun Koo
- Why City?
- Demise of the City
- City Reloaded
- Bifurcation of the Future
- Epilogue
- References
- Index