1st Edition

Social Process and the City

Edited By Peter Williams Copyright 2007
216 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Contemporary urban studies engages a wide range of approaches in the analysis of the processes at work in urban areas. These approaches derive from anthropology, economics, geography, history, politics and sociology as well as from the professional experience of town planning and architecture. Social process and the city reflects this growing cross-disciplinary engagement. This shows the... Read more

Introduction: Theory and process in urban studies, Peter Williams

1. When is an urban problem not an urban problem? Evan Jones and Frank Stilwell

2. The crisis in British planning education and research, J. Brian McLoughlin

3. On the shoulders of which giant? The case for Weberian policy analysis, Peter Saunders

4. Women and suburban housing: Post-war planning in Sydney, 1943-61, Carolyn Allport

5. Population mobility in Australia's urban areas, Chris Maher

6. The city, state and resource development in Western Australia, Elizabeth Harman

7. The city-bred child and urban reform in Melbourne 1900-1940, Graeme Davison

8. The development of urban planning in Australia 1888-1948: a bibliography and review, Robert Freestone

Biography

Peter Williams