This important work brings together a range of perspectives in
contemporary urban analysis. The field of urban analysis is
characterized by the multiplicity of approaches, philosophies, and
methodologies employed in the examination of urban structure and
urban problems. This fragmentation of perspectives is not simply a
reflection of the multifaceted and complex nature of the city as
subject matter. Nor is it a function of the variety of disciplines
such as geography, planning, economics, history, and sociology.
Cross-cutting all of these issues and allegiances has been the
emergence in recent years of a debate on fundamental issues of
philosophy, ideology, and basic assumptions underlying the analysis
of urban form and structure.
The notion of urban analysis Robert W. Lake discusses focuses on
the spatial structure of the city, its causes, and its
consequences. At issue is the city as a spatial fact: a built
environment with explicit characteristics and spatial dimensions, a
spatial distribution of population and land uses, a nexus of
locational decisions, an interconnected system of locational
advantages and disadvantages, amenities and dis-amenities.
Beginning with landmark articles in neo-classical and
ecological theory, the reader covers the latest departures and
developments. Separate sections cover political approaches to
locational conflict, institutional influences on urban form, and
recent Marxist approaches to urban analysis. Among the topics
included are community strategies in locational conflict, the
political economy of place, the role of government and the courts,
institutional influences in the housing market, and the
relationship between urban form and capitalist development. This is
a valuable introductory text for courses in urban planning, urban
geography, and urban sociology.
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