1st Edition
Readings in Urban Analysis Perspectives on Urban Form and Structure
By Robert W. Lake
Copyright 1983
351 Pages
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Routledge
352 Pages
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Routledge
341 Pages
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Routledge
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This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis. The field of urban analysis is characterized by the multiplicity of approaches, philosophies, and methodologies employed in the examination of urban structure and urban problems. This fragmentation of perspectives is not simply a reflection of the multifaceted and complex nature of the city as subject... Read more
I: The Neo-Classical Tradition; 1: A Theory of the Urban Land Market; 2: The Spatial Structure of the Housing Market; 3: The Journey-to-Work as a Determinant of Residential Location; II: Human Ecology; 4: Human Ecology; 5: Toward a More Human Human Ecology: An Urban Research Strategy; 6: Growth, Politics, and the Stratification of Places; 7: Men Without Property: The Tramp’s Classification and Use of Urban Space; III: Conflict and Institutional Constraints; 8: Local Interests and Urban Political Processes In Market Societies; 9: Locational Conflict and the Politics of Consumption; 10: Urban Social Theory and Research; 11: The Role of Institutions in the Inner London Housing Market: The Case of Islington; 12: Large Builders, Federal Housing Programmes, and Postwar Suburbanization; IV: Marxist Approaches; 13: The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis; 14: Capital Accumulation and Urbanization in the United States; 15: Class-Monopoly Rent, Finance Capital and the Urban Revolution; 16: Toward A Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, Not People
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Robert W. Lake
