Synopses & Reviews
| For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Economics, and Urban Sociology. Contemporary, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive in perspective, this text integrates concepts, issues, and methods of urban geography – systematically introducing appropriate statistical procedures as various models and theories are discussed. |
Synopsis
For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Economics, and Urban Sociology. Contemporary, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive in perspective, this text integrates concepts, issues, and methods of urban geography - systematically introducing appropriate statistical procedures as various models and theories are discussed.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-399) and index.
Table of Contents
1. Urban Geography.
2. The Model-building Approach.
3. Patterns of Land Use and Land Value.
4. Multivariate Land Value and Housing Models.
5. Urban Retail Structure and Population Density Patterns.
6. Urban Social Areas.
7. Urban Industrial Structure.
8. The City of the Mind.
9. Movement Patterns within Cities.
10. Residential Mobility.
11. The Decision-making Process in Residential Mobility.
12. The System of Cities.
13. Interregional Migration.
14. Urban Planning.
References.
Index.