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, cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world. Offering a 21st century view of the changing urban scene, the text covers evolving urban patterns and the changing nature of urban life. Combining expert scholarship with a readable style that students appreciate, J. John Palen is one of America's leading urban sociologists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199946043
• ISBN13: 9780199946044
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

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.