This new edition of the leading textbook on Urban Geography offers new and revised content throughout
Urban Geography provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of urban geography, exploring the origins, historical development, and current challenges of cities and metropolitan areas. Incorporating the most current research in urban studies, this acclaimed textbook introduces key elements of urban theory and methodology while addressing the urban experience in a global context. Student-friendly chapters cover central topics such as urbanization processes, discrimination in the housing market, gentrification, metropolitan governance, urban planning, and issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism.
The fourth edition of Urban Geography is extensively revised and updated, with two entirely new chapters focused on urban transportation and the relationship between cities and nature, including climate change. Expanded material addressing the impact of COVID-19 and other health aspects of cities is accompanied by new information, new figures, new themes, and new pedagogical features.
Capturing the excitement, richness, and dynamics of the field, Urban Geography:
Introduces theories and issues associated with urban systems, including urban hierarchy, metropolitan dominance, urban-economic restructuring, and industrial urbanization
Discusses contemporary debates on the structure and functioning of cities, the role of government in urban housing, urban sprawl, and geographical and political fragmentation
Presents traditional models of urban social space and new factors that organize intra-urban space, such as globalization and postmodernism
Analyzes issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism, with special emphasis on the geographic patterns of Latino and Asian immigration
Examines cities both in the developed world and in less developed non-industrial areas
Urban Geography, Fourth Edition, is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Urban Geography, as well as related courses in Urban Studies, Sociology, and Political Science programs.
Author Biography:
David H. Kaplan is Professor of Geography at Kent State University. His research interests include nationalism, borderlands, ethnic and racial segregation, urban and regional development, housing finance, and sustainable transportation. Dr. Kaplan has published 14 books and more than 70 articles and book chapters. He edits the Geographical Review and National Identities and is a former President of the American Association of Geographers.
Steven R. Holloway is Professor of Geography and Director of Urban and Metropolitan Studies at the University of Georgia. He conducts research on a variety of urban-centered topics, including racial segregation, redlining, mortgage lending discrimination, wildfire risk, and urban heat islands. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals including Urban Geography, Applied Geography, and The Professional Geographer.
