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Beyond southern urbanism? Imagining an urban geography of a world of cities

Urban Geography, 2020
Urban geography has increasingly considered southern cities as important locations from which to develop urban theory. We build this wider movement and recent scholarship to continue opening urban geography to southern cities, scholars and ideas ...
M. Lawhon   +5 more
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“THE NATURE OF CITIES” AND URBAN GEOGRAPHY IN THE LAST HALF CENTURY

Urban Geography, 1997
On the 50th anniversary of the publication in 1945 of The Nature of Cities by Harris and Ullman, with its concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei models of internal patterns of cities, an additional peripheral model is suggested.
C. D. Harris
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

2012 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture Topological City

Urban Geography, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea of the topological city, both by sharing some observations about the use of topology in critical human geography today and also by demonstrating how different modes of topological analyses of the city may work.
A. Secor
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities

Regional studies, 2021
This research investigates the economic geography of urban technology, or ‘urban tech’, start-up enterprises. Comprised of ride-hailing, co-living, co-working, smart cities and other urban-oriented activities, urban tech is a suite of innovations that ...
Patrick Adler, R. Florida
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban geography: city structures [PDF]

open access: possibleProgress in Human Geography, 1977
Three types of work characterize the study of city structures, according to my earlier paper on this topic (Johnston, 1977). Two of them (neoclassical-functional description and the behavioural approach) are well-established and work continues to be produced along conventional lines (Herbert and Johnston, 1976a; 1976b); the third (institutional ...
openaire   +1 more source

Southern urbanism or a world of cities? Modes of enacting a more global urban geography in textbooks, teaching and research

Urban Geography, 2019
Despite growing attentiveness to cities in the global south, questions remain as to how to enact a more global urban studies. We analyze five contemporary textbooks as a lens into how southern cities ought to be incorporated in teaching as well as the ...
M. Lawhon, L. Le Roux
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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