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Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development | 
 enlarge | Creators: Stanley D. Brunn, Maureen Hays-mitchell, Donald J. Zeigler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 813848
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 680
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7 x 1.4
ISBN: 0742555976
Dewey Decimal Number: 307.76
EAN: 9780742555976
ASIN: 0742555976
Publication Date: July 28, 2008
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Product Description
This fully updated and revised fourth edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape, and by extension the world's politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, a group of noted experts explores the eleven major global regions. Liberally illustrated with a new selection of photographs, maps, and diagrams, the text also includes a rich array of boxed vignettes. Clearly written and timely, this text will be invaluable for those teaching introductory or advanced classes on global cities, regional geography, and urban studies.
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 Great book! January 5, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very good book for all beginners wanting to learn more about the world's greatest and largest cities. This book also discusses the history of many of these cities along with their social geography. Overall, a very good read!
 2003? seems more like 1950 July 15, 2003
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is poorly written, full of factual and gramatical errors, and suffers from what I would nicely call "eurocentricity." The book blames the problems of less developed countries on the populations of those countries and does not discuss the effects of colonialism or neocolonialism. I was expecting an unbiased, interesting, enlightening text on world cities, history, culture, and urban systems, what I got is a lot of population ecology and an unabashed advertisement for globalization and the IMF.
 This can also be considered a book on world history February 12, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An important reason that I think this book gives a balanced, non-biased overview of the development of cities throughout the world is because it was written by a diverse group of authors. While in every chapter or section of the book we find that "Western imperialists" are always involved in the evolution of world cities, this book also emphasizes how indigenous city planning still shape the cities and offer the means for cities to be friendlier places to live.Since cities are sources of power of soverignty for nations, countries, and empires, one finds that this city planning book is also a type of world history book.
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