The Wiley-blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies

Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world.  It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others.

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ‘global cities’. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida.

• Comprised of over 450 entries on the most important topics and from a range of theoretical perspectives
• Features authoritative entries on topics ranging from gender and the city to biographical profiles of figures like Frank Lloyd Wright
• Takes a global perspective with entries providing coverage of Latin America and Africa, India and China, and, the US and Europe
• Includes biographies of central figures in urban and regional studies, such as Doreen Massey, Peter Hall, Neil Smith, and Henri Lefebvre

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies is an indispensable reference for students and researchers in urban and regional studies, urban sociology, urban geography, and urban anthropology.

ANTHONY M. ORUM is Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Sociology, USA. He works today as an independent scholar and is currently engaged in a new project seeking to uncover the urban conditions that lead to the social inclusion of outsiders, among them, women, migrants, and the homeless.

Volume I

Editors

Contributors

Introduction and Acknowledgments

Urban and Regional Studies

Volume II

Urban and Regional Studies

Volume III

Urban and Regional Studies

Volume IV

Urban and Regional Studies

Volume V

Urban and Regional Studies

Index

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