ABSTRACT

Urban Geography in America offers a comprehensive historiography of this major field. Compiling the best essays from the flagship journal Urban Geography , it shows the evolution of the field from the 1950s to 2000, as it shifted from data-driven social science modeling in the 1960s to the more critical perspectives of the 1970s to postmodernism in the 1980s to feminism and globalization in the 1990s. It covers all the major trends and figures, and features some of the most important names in the field. Ultimately, this will be a necessary reference for all scholars in the field and all graduate students taking introductory courses and preparing for their comprehensive exams.

part I|60 pages

Foundations

chapter 1|16 pages

Urban Geography in the United States

My Experience of the Formative Years

chapter 2|10 pages

Harris and Ullman's “The Nature of Cities”

The Paper's Historical Context and Its Impact on Further Research

chapter 3|19 pages

Diffusion of Urban Models

part II|68 pages

Urban Geography in the 1960s

chapter 5|10 pages

Geography's Quantitative Revolution

Initial Conditions, 1954–1960. A Personal Memoir

chapter 6|19 pages

Yesterday as Tomorrow's Song

The Contribution of the 1960s “Chicago School” to Urban Geography

part III|51 pages

Urban Geography in the 1970s

part IV|104 pages

Urban Geography in the 1980s

chapter 15|7 pages

Introduction—The Sea Change of the 1980s

Urban Geography as if People and Places Matter

chapter 16|26 pages

Urban Geography in Transition

A Canadian Perspective on the 1980s and Beyond 1

chapter 19|14 pages

Coming of Age

Urban Geography in the 1980s

chapter 20|6 pages

Commentary

The Antiurban Angst of Urban Geography in the 1980s 1

part V|87 pages

Urban Geography in the 1990s

chapter 21|5 pages

Introduction

The Power of Culture and the Culture of Power in Urban Geography in the 1990s 1

chapter 22|17 pages

The Weight of Tradition, The Springboard of Tradition

Let's Move Beyond the 1990s 1

chapter 23|16 pages

The 1990s Show

Culture Leaves the Farm and Hits the Streets 1

chapter 24|21 pages

The Los Angeles School of Urbanism

An Intellectual History 1

chapter 25|23 pages

Unbounding Critical Geographic Research on Cities

The 1990s and Beyond 1