ABSTRACT

Contemporary urban studies engages a wide range of approaches in the analysis of the processes at work in urban areas. These approaches derive from anthropology, economics, geography, history, politics and sociology as well as from the professional experience of town planning and architecture.

Social process and the city reflects this growing cross-disciplinary engagement. This shows the important, problematic, role which cities in particular, and urban change in general have played in the growth of Australia. The overriding concern of each essay in this collection is to develop an understanding of the ways urban areas function and an awareness of how differing interpretations of 'urban phenomena' might be applied. This attention to the nature of the forces at work, and the processes these forces manifest themselves in, is extended both empirically and conceptually. 

This book was first published in 1983.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

Theory and process in urban studies

chapter 3|23 pages

On the shoulders of which giant?

The case for Weberian political analysis

chapter 4|24 pages

Women and suburban housing

Post-war planning in Sydney, 1943–61

chapter 8|30 pages

The development of urban planning in Australia 1888–1948

a bibliography and review

part 1|4 pages

Policy review

part 2|23 pages

Review articles

chapter |2 pages

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