Urban Geography in America, 1950-2000: Paradigms and Personalities

by Brian J.L Berry (Editor), James Wheeler (Editor)

Overview

Urban Geography in America offers a comprehensive historiography of this major field. Compiling the best essays from the flagship journal Urban Geography , it shows the evolution of the field from the 1950s to 2000, as it shifted from data-driven social science modeling in the 1960s to the more critical perspectives of the 1970s to postmodernism in the 1980s to feminism and globalization in the 1990s. It covers all the major trends and figures, and features some of the most important names in the field. Ultimately, this will be a necessary reference for all scholars in the field and all graduate students taking introductory courses and preparing for their comprehensive exams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134728657
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	404
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Brian Berry is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas. The author of more than 500 books and articles, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1988. In 1999 he become the first geographer to serve as a member of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
James Wheeler is Professor and Merle Punty Chair of Geography at the University of Georgia. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles. He is co-editor of the journal Urban Geography and editor of the Southeastern Geographer.

Table of Contents

I: Foundations; 1: Urban Geography in the United States; 2: Harris and Ullman's “The Nature of Cities”; 3: Diffusion of Urban Models; 4: Some Thoughts on the Development of Urban Geography in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s 1; II: Urban Geography in the 1960s; 5: Geography's Quantitative Revolution; 6: Yesterday as Tomorrow's Song; 7: The Quantitative Revolution in Urban Geography 1; 8: Pacific Views of Urban Geography in the 1960s; 9: Assessing the Role of Spatial Analysis in Urban Geography in the 1960s 1; III: Urban Geography in the 1970s; 10: A Decade of Methodological and Philosophical Exploration; 11: A Personal History; 12: Competing Visions of the City; 13: The Comparative Metropolitan Analysis Project; 14: Emerging Political Paradigms; IV: Urban Geography in the 1980s; 15: Introduction—The Sea Change of the 1980s; 16: Urban Geography in Transition; 17: The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities; 18: Quality-of-Life Research in Urban Geography; 19: Coming of Age; 20: Commentary; V: Urban Geography in the 1990s; 21: Introduction; 22: The Weight of Tradition, The Springboard of Tradition; 23: The 1990s Show; 24: The Los Angeles School of Urbanism; 25: Unbounding Critical Geographic Research on Cities