This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of "ordinary cities" as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness. The book is concerned with new and often unanticipated inequalities that have emerged from this new city movement. As chronicled, such cities - Cleveland (USA), Heidelberg (Germany), Oxford (UK), Groningen (Netherlands), Montpellier (France), but also cities from the Global South such as Cachoeira (Brazil) and Delhi (India) - now experience new and unexpected realities of poverty, segregation, neglect of the poor, racial and ethnic strife. To date planners, academics, and policy analysts have paid little attention to the connections between this drive in these cities to be more creative and the inequalities that have followed. This book, keenly making these connections, highlights the limited visions that have been applied in this planning drive to make these cities more creative and ultimately more globally competitive.

This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of "ordinary cities" as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness. The book is concerned with new and often unanticipated inequalities that have emerged from this new city movement. As chronicled, such cities - Cleveland (USA), Heidelberg (Germany), Oxford (UK), Groningen (Netherlands), Montpellier (France), but also cities from the Global South such as Cachoeira (Brazil) and Delhi (India) - now experience new and unexpected realities of poverty, segregation, neglect of the poor, racial and ethnic strife. To date planners, academics, and policy analysts have paid little attention to the connections between this drive in these cities to be more creative and the inequalities that have followed. This book, keenly making these connections, highlights the limited visions that have been applied in this planning drive to make these cities more creative and ultimately more globally competitive.

Das Lehrbuch Humangeographie bietet einen Einstieg in die zentralen Themenbereiche des Fachs. An der Schnittstelle von Sozial-, Kultur- und Umweltwissenschaften dient die Humangeographie als integratives Bindeglied zwischen verschiedenen Disziplinen und Teildisziplinen und eroeffnet ein differenziertes Verstandnis gesellschaftlicher Strukturen und Prozesse in raumbezogener Perspektive. Wahrend der vergangenen Jahre ist die Humangeographie als ein besonders dynamischer und produktiver Bereich der Wissenschaften hervorgetreten. Die Humangeographie kompakt vermittelt in knapper Form anschauliche Einblicke in die Zusammenhange von Gesellschaft, Raum und Umwelt und behandelt aktuelle Themen und Fragestellungen des Fachs. Das Buch wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende im Bachelor- und Lehramtsstudium der Geographie sowie an alle am Fach Interessierten. In acht Kapiteln werden die Grundlagen der Humangeographie behandelt; der Band bildet damit eine aktuelle und verlassliche Referenz fur Einfuhrungsmodule. Exkurse, weiterfuhrende Hinweise und kommentierte Literaturangaben ermuntern dazu, weiter zu lesen und zu denken.