Urban Problems: An Applied Urban Analysis

by Michael Pacione

Urban problems and their resolution represent one of the major challenges for planners and decision makers in the modern world. This book, first published in 1990, makes a major contribution to the field, presenting an international and interdisciplinary approach to the challenges presented by the urban environment. The coverage is comprehensive, ranging from the economic and political dimensions of the capitalist system, to the issues of poverty and deprivation and questions about housing equity. This is an essential reference guide to social, economic and environmental problems in urban areas, which is of great value to students of planning, urban studies, geography and sociology.

211 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1989

About the author

Prof Paccione is chair of Geography at the University of Strathclyde.

Professor Pacione's principal research interest is in the field of Urban Geography. An applied or problem-oriented perspective informs much of his research activity.

He has published twenty-five books and more than 130 research papers in an international range of academic and professional journals. Recently published research includes analyses of the processes of urban restructuring and the reproduction of inequality in Britain's cities; local responses to globalisation; the geography of educational disadvantage; local currencies; geography and public finance; local exchange trading systems; the use of models in urban geography; geographies of religious affiliation; sustainable urban development; urban morphogenesis; and the question of relevant research and the pursuit of useful knowledge in human geography.