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Cities of North America - Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities (Hardcover, New)
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Cities of North America - Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities (Hardcover, New)
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This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic
and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North
America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada
face a range of dynamic and complex concerns including the
redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of
manufacturing, and a global growth in services. The contributors
provide compelling examples: Inner cities have experienced both
gentrification and continued areas of segregation and poverty.
Downtown revitalization has created urban spectacles that include
festivals, marketplaces, and sports stadiums. Older, inner-ring
suburbs now confront decline and increased poverty, while the
outer-ring suburbs and exurbs continue to expand, devouring green
space. The book explores how the combined processes of urbanization
and globalization have added new responsibilities for city
governments at the same time leaders are grappling with planning,
economic development and finance, justice, equity, and social
cohesion. Cities have become the stage upon which new forms of
ethnic, racial, and sexual identities are constructed and
reconstructed. They are also connected to wider ecological
processes as urban spaces are compromised by manmade and natural
disasters alike. Introducing contemporary spatial arrangements and
distributions of activities in metropolitan areas, this clear and
accessible book covers economic, social, political, and ecological
changes. It is also the only text to include the physical geography
of urban areas. Bringing together leading geographers, it will be
an ideal resource for courses on urban geography and geography of
the city. Contributions by: Matthew Anderson, Lisa Benton-Short,
Geoff Buckley, Christopher DeSousa, Bernadette Hanlon, Amanda
Huron, Yeong-Hyun Kim, Nathaniel M. Lewis, Robert Lewis, Deborah
Martin, Lindsey Sutton, John Tiefenbacher, Thomas J. Vicino, Katie
Wells, and David Wilson."
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