The Urban Order An Introduction to Urban

Traditional models, radical interpretations and post-modern concerns are synthesized in this accessible and evocative account of the central issues of contemporary urbanism and city life.

John Rennie Short was born in Tullibody, Scotland. He was educated at Alloa Academy and Aberdeen University. He completed his PhD at Bristol University and lectured in geography at Reading University before taking up his present position of Professor of Geography at Syracuse University in 1990. His previous books include Housing and Residential Structure (1980), The Humane City (Blackwell, 1989), Imagined Country (1991) and Human Settlement (1993).

Introduction

1

(13)

PART I THE CITY AND ECONOMY

Cities and Economic Development

13

(23)

The Urbanization of the Economy

36

(32)

The City and the Global Economy

68

(25)

The Political Economy of Urbanization

93

(29)

Capital, Labor, and the City: Case Study I, Part 1

122

(19)

Capital, Labor, and the City: Case Study I, Part 2

141

(11)

Yuppies, Yuffies, and the New Urban Order: Case Study II

152

(21)

PART II THE CITY AND SOCIETY

The Housing Market

173

(34)

The Social Arena

207

(32)

Life in the City

239

(24)

The Political Arena

263

(28)

Residential Mobility in the City: Case Study III

291

(16)

Gender, Space, and Power: Case Study IV

307

(23)

Race, Ethnicity, and the City: Case Study V

330

(43)

PART III THE PRODUCTION OF THE CITY

City as Investment

373

(17)

City as Text

390

(24)

City Images

414

(25)

Reconstructing the Image of a City: Case Study VI

439

(24)

Conflict and Compromise in the Built Environment: Case Study VII

463

(25)

Postscript: Barcelona

488

(5)

Concluding Comments

493

(1)

Index

494

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