Books written by John Rennie Short

Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US

Phillips, K. (1990) The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath. ... Price, M. and Benton-Short, L. (eds) (2008) Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities.
Cities and Nature

Mecca as pilgrimage site Wolfe, M. (ed.)(1999) One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten CenturiesofTravelers Writing About The Muslim Pilgrimage, New York:Grove. On New Orleans Colten, C. (ed.) (2000) Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs, ...
Alabaster Cities: Urban U.S. since 1950

Betancur, J. J., and D. C. Gills, eds. The Collaborative City: Opportunities and Struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities. New York: Garland Publications, 2000. Clark, W. A. V. Immigrants and the American Dream: Remaking the ...
Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World

As John Rennie Short argues in Cartographic Encounters, that mapping of the New World was only possible due to a unique relationship between the indigenous inhabitants and the explorers.
The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities

... Corporate and institutional dynamics of global-localisation Edited by Jeremy Alden and Nicholas F. Phelps 21. ... Metropolitan Planning in Britain A comparative study Edited by Peter Roberts, Kevin Thomas and Gwyndaf Williams 17.
Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment

Gordon, D. (1984) 'Capitalist development and the history of American cities', in W. Tabb and L. Sawyers (eds), Marxism and the ... Graham, S. (2002) 'Reflections on cities, September 11th and the 'war on terrorism' – one year on', ...
Cities and Economies

Manyother cities were also represented:Francesco Rosselli produced prospects ofPisa, Rome, Constantinople and Florence inthe 1490s; an anonymous woodcut prospectof Antwerp appeared in 1515; a bird'seye view ofAugsburg was madein 1521 ...
Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600

Francesco Rosselli produced prospects of Pisa , Rome , Constantinople , and Florence in the 1490s ; an anonymous woodcut prospect of Antwerp appeared in 1515 ; a bird's - eye view of Augsburg was produced 1521 by Jorg Seld ; and a ...
Cities and Nature

Wheeler, S. (2004) Planning for Sustainability.' Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities. London and New York: Routledge, p. 23. Wheeler, Planningfor Sustainability, pp. 23-5. Girardet, H. (1999) “Sustainable cities: a ...
A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward a Sustainable Future

... 4 Bakersfield, California, 459 Bakken Formation, 322, 332–334 Balcones Escarpment, 228, 242, 244–245, 251, 262,312 bald, 257, 261 Bald Knobbers, 257, 261 Baltimore, Maryland, 50,114, 116, 124, 132, 136–137, 386 Banff National Park, ...
Cities and Nature

Pearce, D. and Barboer, E. (2000) Blueprint for a Sustainable Economy, London: Earthscan. Jenkins, J., Riemann, R., Groffman, P., Pouyat, R. V., Grove, J. M., Nowak, D. and Birdsey, R. (2001) “What do urbanized regions contribute to the ...
Stress Testing the USA: Public Policy and Reaction to Disaster Events

Of course, “no one could” was the implied answer. This argument stressed the unforeseen elements, the unpredictability of it all, and the bigger, almost anonymous, market forces at work. While a small amount of human error is sometimes ...
New Worlds, New Geographies

every apprentice geographer be put through an assault course in " rigor " and an introduction to statistical method . Such lessons are of course valid , but their emphasis at the expense of so - called softer options means that the ...
Cities and Nature

Over the long term the river has shifted its position as it deposits sediment and creates new river courses. The river is continually changing course because of the changing topography and the gravitation pull of searching for the ...
Alternative Geographies

The book discusses medieval cosmologies, Renaissance magic, feng shui, and the knowledge systems of indigenous people. Alternative Geographies provides an alternative way of looking, describing and understanding the world
An Introduction to Political Geography

An Introduction to Political Geography, in its first edition helped shape the study of the discipline. Entirely revised and updated, this new edition explores political and geographic change within the same accessible framework.
An Introduction to Political Geography

Entirely revised and updated, this reviews the history of the rise and fall of centres of power and draws on a wide range of case studies to illustrate current trends and offers discussion of future developments in a useful, compact form.
World Regional Geography: A Short Introduction

"This book will serve instructors teaching World Regional Geography who prefer the versatility afforded by a brief book, and will provide foundational materials to teach the course"--
The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities

The Unequal City tells the story of urban change and acts as a comprehensive guide to the Urban Now.
Globalization, Modernity and the City

In Walking Between Slums and Skyscrapers, Tsung- Yi Michelle Huang does indeed designate flânerie as more vital than ever in the new global cities such as Shanghai, which she nominates as the ultimate habitat of walkers.