Urban Order

John Rennie Short was born in Tullibody, Scotland. He was educated at Alloa Academy and Aberdeen University. He completed his PhD at Bristol University and lectured in geography at Reading University before taking up his present position of Professor of Geography at Syracuse University in 1990. His previous books include Housing and Residential Structure (1980), The Humane City (Blackwell, 1989), Imagined Country (1991) and Human Settlement (1993).

1. Introduction.Part I: The City and Economy:.
2. Cities and Economic Development.
3. The Urbanization of the Economy.
4. The City and the Global Economy.
5. The Political Economy of Urbanization.
6. Capital, Labor and the City; Case Study 1: Part 1.
7. Capital, Labor and the City: Case Study 1: Part 2.
8. Yuppies, Yuffies and the New Urban Order: Case Study II.
Part II: The City and Society:.
9. The Housing Market.
10. The Social Arena.
11. Life in the City.
12. The Political Arena.
13. Residential Mobility in the City: Case Study III.
14. Gender, Space and Power: Case Study IV.
15. Race, Ethnicity and the City: Case Study V.
Part III: The Production of the City:.
16. City as Investment.
17. City as Text.
18. City Images.
19. Reconstructing the Image of a City: Case Study VI.
20. Conflict and Compromise in the Built Environment: Case Study VII.
21. Postscript: Barcelona.
Concluding Comments.
Index.

* A triple perspective -- the city and economy; the city and society; the city and power. * Includes chapters on race, ethnicity and the city; and on gender, space and power. * Unites political, economic and cultural perspectives. * Examples range from all over the world.