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  • Landscapes of Settlementby Brian Roberts

    Routledge 1996; US$ 71.95

    A comprehensive analysis of the history and devel- opment of rural settlement in both the developed and developing worlds. Complete with detailed case studies and fully illustrated, this is essential reading for all geographers and archaeologists. more...

  • Urban Geography, 2nd Editionby Tim Hall

    Routledge 2000; US$ 41.95

    Introduces traditional and contemporary approaches and perspectives in urban geography and examines the new geographical patterns that are forming in cities and the ways in which geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. more...

  • Urban Geographyby Michael Pacione

    Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 46.95

    Urban Geography provides an authoritative and stimulating global introduction to the study of towns and cities. The new edition has been extensively revised to reflect feedback from readers and to incorporate the latest research and developments. more...

  • City Worldsby Doreen Massey; Steve Pile; John Allen

    Routledge 1998; US$ 67.95

    Analysing cities through spatial understanding, this book explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity and outlines new ways to address some of the ambiguities of cities: their promise, potential and problems. more...

  • Urban Geographyby Tim Hall

    Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 47.95

    Investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of urban transformation. This book critically synthesizes key literatures in the following areas: approaches to urban geography; economic geography of the city; urban policy; new urban forms and landscapes; impacts of urban change; and, sustainability and the city. more...

  • The Meaning of the Localby Geert De Neve; Henrike Donner

    Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 44.95

    This book examines the meaning of locality in urban India through studies of social, spatial and historical associations between peoples and places. more...

  • The Evolving Arab Cityby Yasser Elsheshtawy

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 44.95

    This new collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. more...

  • A Nation upon the Ocean Seaby Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert

    Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 25.00

    With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews , Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early seventeenth century, this nation without a state had created a remarkable trading network that spanned the Atlantic, reached into the Indian Ocean and Asia, and generated millions of pesos that were used to bankroll the Spanish empire. A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in the late fifteenth century... more...

  • Urban Geographyby Michael Pacione

    Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 79.95

    This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject. more...

  • Chicago Madeby Robert Lewis

    University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 32.00

    From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake Calumet at the turn of the twentieth century, manufacturing districts shaped Chicago’s character and laid the groundwork for its transformation into a sprawling metropolis. Approaching Chicago’s story as a reflection of America’s industrial history between the Civil War and World War II, Chicago Made explores not only the well-documented workings of centrally located city factories but also the overlooked suburbanization of manufacturing and its profound effect on the metropolitan landscape.             Robert Lewis documents how manufacturers, attracted... more...