Alan Latham is another Professor of Human Geography at University College London. His research focuses on sociality, social infrastructure, and the public life of cities more generally. He's studied those themes in all sorts of places around the world too. In undertaking this work, he's explored a range of research approaches - including the use of photo-diaries, diary-interviews, social contact logs, and video recording and analysis. He's interested in doing whatever works to get as close as possible to the realities of people's experience. Originally from New Zealand, he's also been in London, and UCL, for quite a long time too.
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Introduction I Location and movement 1.1 Centrality 1.2 Mobility 1.3 Global Cities 1.4 Transnational urbanism II Constructions 2.1 Nature 2.2 Materiality 2.3 Infrastructure 2.4 Architecture III Envisioning and experience 3.1 Diagram 3.2 Photography 3.3 Body 3.4 Virtuality 3.5 Surveillance IV Social and Political Spaces 4.1 Segregation 4.2 Urban politics 4.3 Community V Sites and practices 5.1 Consumption 5.2 Media 5.3 Public space 5.4 Commemoration
This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline. -- Roger Keil The city is an obvious but confounding object of geographical analysis; urban structure and life are shaped by an astounding array of social, economic, and political dynamics. This volume embraces these complexities of city form in a wide-ranging, readable, well-informed, and highly interdisciplinary analysis of key topics in urban studies. With its fresh approach, this book provides an accessible entry point for the newcomer to urban geography, yet also delivers creative insights for those with greater familiarity. -- Steven K. Herbert