This collection of essays from across disciplines introduces students to the range and diversity of urban society throughout history, from the ancient world through the present. The book looks at cities representing three archetypes: Preindustrial, Industrial, and Postindustrial, and includes seminal pieces by classical and contemporary urban scholars. These essays trace the shifts in economic production from primary (agriculture, fishing, mining, forestry) to secondary (manufacturing), tertiary (financial, real estate, clerical), and quarternary (information and communication technology sectors) sectors. Efren N. Padilla is director of the Urban Studies Program at California State University-Hayward.
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This collection of cross-disciplinary essays introduces students to the range and diversity of urban society, from the ancient cities of the preindustrial world through the present.
This collection of essays
• Introduces readers to the diverse body of literature that expresses a common concern for the spatial and aspatial dimensions of the city,
• Discusses contemporary issues of city life, and
• Presents perspectives and theories of the city that guide us to discover the urban processes and outcomes that affect our day-to-day living.
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Not the book for Preindustrial cities,
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Its amazing that the editor could find so many outdated papers on preindustrial cities to include. These chapters could have been used in a reader from about 1960. Archaeologists and historians have learned a lot about preindustrial cities since then, but one would never know it from these chapters. But maybe the term "preindustrial" is meant to apply to the date of the articles, in addition to the date of the cities.
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