Key Concepts in Urban Geography

Alan Latham is a Professor of Human Geography at University College London. His research focuses on sociality, social infrastructure, and the public life of cities more generally. He has undertaken research in Germany, America, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Sweden on cities as diverse as Auckland, London, New York, Eugene (OR), Malmo, Berlin, and Champaign-Urbana. Before moving to UCL he held academic positions at the University of Southampton, and the University of Auckland.

This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline.

• IntroductionI Location and movement1.1 Centrality1.2 Mobility1.3 Global Cities1.4 Transnational urbanismII Constructions2.1 Nature2.2 Materiality2.3 Infrastructure2.4 ArchitectureIII Envisioning and experience3.1 Diagram3.2 Photography3.3 Body3.4 Virtuality3.5 SurveillanceIV Social and Political Spaces4.1 Segregation4.2 Urban politics4.3 CommunityV Sites and practices5.1 Consumption5.2 Media5.3 Public space5.4 Commemoration