This new edition of the leading textbook on Urban Geography offers new and revised content throughout Urban Geography provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of urban geography, exploring the origins, historical development, and current challenges of cities and metropolitan areas. Incorporating the most current research in urban studies, this acclaimed textbook introduces key elements of urban theory and methodology while addressing the urban experience in a global context. Student-friendly chapters cover central topics such as urbanization processes, discrimination in the housing market, gentrification, metropolitan governance, urban planning, and issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism. The fourth edition of Urban Geography is extensively revised and updated, with two entirely new chapters focused on urban transportation and the relationship between cities and nature, including climate change. Expanded material addressing the impact of COVID-19 and other health aspects of cities is accompanied by new information, new figures, new themes, and new pedagogical features. Capturing the excitement, richness, and dynamics of the field, Urban Geography: * Introduces theories and issues associated with urban systems, including urban hierarchy, metropolitan dominance, urban-economic restructuring, and industrial urbanization * Discusses contemporary debates on the structure and functioning of cities, the role of government in urban housing, urban sprawl, and geographical and political fragmentation * Presents traditional models of urban social space and new factors that organize intra-urban space, such as globalization and postmodernism * Analyzes issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism, with special emphasis on the geographic patterns of Latino and Asian immigration * Examines cities both in the developed world and in less developed non-industrial areas Urban Geography, Fourth Edition, is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Urban Geography, as well as related courses in Urban Studies, Sociology, and Political Science programs.

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of Urban Geography The leading undergraduate textbook on the subject, Urban Geography covers the origins, historical development, and contemporary challenges of cities and metropolitan areas around the world. Incorporating the most recent research in urban studies, authors David H. Kaplan and Steven R. Holloway provide an overview of the dynamic field, introduce key elements of urban theory and methodology, analyze issues of immigration, ethnicity, and urbanism, and more. Exploring the urban experience in a global context, 16 student-friendly chapters address urbanization processes, industrial urbanization, discrimination in the housing market, gentrification, metropolitan governance, urban planning, geographical and political fragmentation, urban immigration, urban-economic restructuring, and more. Each chapter includes an introductory road map, learning objectives, definitions of key terms, discussion questions, and suggestions for research topics and activities. The fourth edition of Urban Geography contains two entirely new chapters on urban transportation and the relationship between cities and the environment, including climate change and natural disasters. New discussion of the impact of COVID-19 and other health aspects of cities is accompanied by new data, new figures, new themes, and new pedagogical tools. In this edition, the authors present traditional models of urban social space and new factors that organize intra-urban space, such as globalization and postmodernism. Examining cities in the developed world and in less developed regions, Urban Geography, Fourth Edition, is the ideal textbook for Urban Geography classes and related courses in Urban Studies, Sociology, and Political Science programs.