Urban Geography

Contents: Preface. 1. Geographic thought and practice. 2. Modern viewpoints in geography. 3. Some research themes. 4. The methods of geography. 5. The essence of geography. 6. Beyond culture city glasgow as a dual city. 7. Race Housing and the city. 8. Violence space and gender the social and spatial parameters of violence against women and men. 9. Challenging perceptions community and neighbourliness on a difficult to let estate. 10. Hegemony and regime in urban Governance towards a theory of the locally networked state. 11. Urban partnerships economic regeneration and the healthy city. 12. Policing late modernity changing strategies of crime management in contemporary Britain. 13. Poverty and partnership in the Third European poverty programme the liverpool case. 14. Downtown redevelolpment and Community resistance an international perspective. 15. Religion education and city politics : a case study of Community mobilisation. 16. Poverty excluded Communities and local Democracy. 17. Development of geographic thought. Index.
"Early in the Second World War President Roosevelt in one of his fireside chats by radio asked his audience to look at a world map while he explained the threats to the United States of hostile encirclement if the Axis powers were to win.

But geographic knowledge is equally important though less dramatic in meaning in peacetime. Projects for the advance of under developed countries or of depressed areas at home require understanding of the local way of life and of the interconnections of human and material resources. Or if we want out cities to be more efficient and more beautiful we must begin with analyzing their present plan and structure. Thus we start with learning their geography. That is we make a map showing the location of the central business district the industrial areas the various residential sections the parks and the transportation system or chaos that connects all parts of the city and links it with other places." (jacket)