Social Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Metropolitan Problems

   By S. Miles

   Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The book, which took three years to complete, represents the culmination of a two year study that was highlighted by a conference held in toronto in 1967. In the early...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Third World Urbanization

   By J. Abu-Lughod, R. Jr Hay

   This book was first published in 1977....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Pre-Colombian Cities

   By Jorge Enrique Hardoy

   What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Urban Community

   A World Perspective

   By Nels Andersen

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   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. City Slums

   A Political Thesis

   By J.A. Ingham

   This book was first published in 1889....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. The New Urban Economics

   And Alternatives

   By H.W. Richardson

   This book was first published in 1977. ...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Rails Through the Clay

   A History of London's Tube Railways

   By Alan A. Jackson, Desmond F. Croome

   This book was first published in 1962. ...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
8. English Urban Life

   1776-1851

   By James Walvin

   The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid population growth; and an unprecedented rate of social change resulting from this. These...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. Great Cities of the World

   Their government, Politics and Planning

   Edited by W.A. Robson

   The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
10. Centrality and Cities

    By James Bird

    Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future. He sees centrality as a mental projection on to space, and discusses the concept in relation to three types of its manifestation in...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge