TY  - BOOK
AU  - Byrne, David
TI  - Understanding the urban
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave MacMillan
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Metropolitan areas
KW  - City and town life
N1  - Includes bibliographical reference and index; Contents : Introduction--
1. The City at the Beginning of a New Millennium--
2. The genesis and the implications of the Post-industrial city--
3.  Locality and Community : the significance of place--
4.  Grounding the Global : cities in a world system--
5.  The Divided City : the ecology of Postindustrial Places--
6.  Culture and the Urban : commodity, understanding and resource--
7. The production and reproduction of the built environment.--
8.  Politics and governance in urban places--
Conclusion : the tranjectory of complex cities into the 21st century
N2  - Cities are changing at a rate unparalleled since the industrial revolution and more than half the population of the world now lives in cities compared with less than a quarter in 1950
ER  -