City Worlds / Edition 1

by John Allen, Doreen Massey, Steve Pile

Overview

For the first time in history, half of the worlds population is living in mega-cities. Never before have we confronted such a geography of the worlds people.
Analysing cities through spatial understanding, City Worlds explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity. The authors outline new ways to address the ambiguities of cities: their promise and potential, their problems and threats.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415200707
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/22/1998
Series:	Understanding Cities
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Doreen Massey id Professor of Geography at The Open University. Her recent books include Spatial Divisions of Labour (2nd Edition), and Space, Place and Gender (1994). She is co-founder and joint editor of Soundings: a journal of politics and culture. John Allen is Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at The Open University. His recent publications include A Shrinking World? (1995, co-edited with Chris Hamnett) and Rethinking the Region (1998, with Doreen Massey and Allan Cochrane). Steve Pile is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. His recent books include The Body and the City (1996), Geographies of Resistance (1997, co-edited with Michael Keith) and Places Through the Body (1998, co-edited with Heidi J. Nast).

Table of Contents

1. What is a City? by Steve Pile, 2. Worlds Within Cities by John Allen 3. Cities in the World by Doreen Massey 4. On Space and the City by Doreen Massey.

Editorial Reviews

'An excellent attampt to understand and articulate the urban world using examples from refreshingly different sources.' - Andrew Lovatt, Manchester Metropolitan University

From the Publisher