Understanding the Urban by David Byrne
Cities are changing at a rate unparalleled since the industrial revolution and more than half the population of the world now lives in cities compared with less than a quarter in 1950.
Well-argued and written in an accessible style, Understanding the Urban would be a useable undergraduate text in urban studies, sociology, human geography, and other disciplines' - Contemporary Sociology This volume brings together interesting reflexive arguments on how analysts come to know and act on the city.' - Choice
DAVID BYRNE is Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Durham. He has worked both as an academic and in community research and his main intellectual interest is in the development of complexity theory as a method of understanding the social world in order to change it.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780333724293 |
| ISBN 10 | 0333724291 |
| Title | Understanding the Urban |
| Author | David Byrne |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2001-03-13 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
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