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Urban geography as if urban knowledge matters

Urban Geography, 2020
This article identifies two main challenges to the future of urban geography. First, the challenge of thinking about urban geography as a more or less coherent discipline in an era of fragmented wo...
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Urban geography II

Progress in Human Geography, 2016
In August 2014, a white police officer shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, USA, fueling the nascent Black Lives Matter movement. The following March, the US Department of Justice produced a report showing that the police department of Ferguson had been explicitly tasked by city officials with using nuisance laws and ...
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The Geography of Urban Heritage

The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, 2015
The heritage community has long faced difficulties with the theoretical as well as practical challenges of managing continuity on the scale of historic cities. Identifying individual components of the architectural heritage and selected areas for a variety of levels of conservation, from the benign to the interventionist, has largely proved to be the ...
Dennis Rodwell, Matthias Ripp
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The Urban Geography of Segregation

2020
Segregation occurs when individuals who identify, or are identified, with different groups occupy different geographies within cities. Although segregation can be seen as a continuum from dispersion through extreme cases exemplified by ghettos, it remains a persistent feature of cities across the globe.
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Geography in an Urban Age

Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1971
(1971). Geography in an Urban Age. Journal of Curriculum Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 65-76.
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Geographies of mega‐urbanization

Geography Compass, 2018
AbstractThis paper reviews recent research on mega‐urbanization, showing that it is an increasingly common form of urban growth. This includes research on the spatial expansion of cities through mega‐scale urban agglomerations like mega‐cities and mega‐regions; it also includes research on the intensification of urban land use through mega‐projects ...
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African Urbanism: the Geography of Urban Greenery

Urban Forum, 2016
Whilst the issue of urban greenery has received considerable research attention in many individual African countries in recent years, little has been done to explore and document the influence and the management implications of urbanisation on urban greenery across Africa.
Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Rhoda Mensah Darkwah   +1 more
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A Geography of Urban Places

2014
Section A: City Origin and Location Section B: Making a Living in Cities Section C: The Effects of ...
Philip G. Kettle, Frank J. Taylor, Robert G. Putnam   +2 more
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An Introduction to Urban Geography

2017
This book, first published in 1984, is an attempt to make students aware of the variety in the urban condition and to introduce them to some of the relationships operating between space and society. From the broad aim of seeking to show the relationship between urbanism and society flows a number of sub-themes, including the importance of cross ...
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Memory for Urban Geography

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1979
Consistent patterns of errors are found in estimations of distances and angles along urban routes, even among subjects who know the areas well. These patterns can be used to discover the organization of the knowledge we use to find our way around in everyday life.
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