The Urban World

by J. John Palen

Book Overview

Long the leading text in urban sociology, The Urban World continues to provide a comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, and cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world. Offering a twenty-first-century view of the changing urban scene, the text covers evolving urban patterns and the changing nature of urban life. Combining expert scholarship with an accessible style that students appreciate, J. John Palen is one of America's leading urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199371962
• ISBN13: 9780199371969
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

THE URBAN WORLD

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Informative and relatively interesting read

I got this book for a class but I was pleasantly surprised that it was easier to get through than a lot of textbooks. Has a lot of random but interesting facts and a good number a photos to break up the text.

our surroundings

this is a great book if you would like to know how the city and others cities have changed . the many changes you will learn about is transportation, the economy, population and anything else ther is to do with the world changes.