The City Reader

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. ... disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems, such as drug abuse and crime.

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    ... Colleen Josephine Sheehy, Fred E.H. Schroeder, and John Chase, Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City (London: Verso, 1998), Henri Glassie, Vernacular Architecture (Bloomington, ...

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city.

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new.

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    GNC is expressed as percentage of largest score (London«s) Table 1 only shows nodes in the world city network but these alone cannot describe the network adequately: it is the links between nodes that constitute a network.

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city.

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    This third edition juxtaposes the very best publications on the city. It reflects the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. It is a comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies: old and new.

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    Sixty generous selections are included: forty-four from the fifth edition, and sixteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader.

  • The City Reader
    The City Reader
    By Frederic Stout, Richard T. LeGates

    This edition of The City Reader has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as sustainable urban development, climate change, globalization, ...