Social Process and the City - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0868612375 ISBN 13: 9780868612379

Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1983

Synopsis

Contemporary urban studies engages a wide range of approaches in the analysis of the processes at work in urban areas. These approaches derive from anthropology, economics, geography, history, politics and sociology as well as from the professional experience of town planning and architecture.

Social process and the city reflects this growing cross-disciplinary engagement. This shows the important, problematic, role which cities in particular, and urban change in general have played in the growth of Australia. The overriding concern of each essay in this collection is to develop an understanding of the ways urban areas function and an awareness of how differing interpretations of 'urban phenomena' might be applied. This attention to the nature of the forces at work, and the processes these forces manifest themselves in, is extended both empirically and conceptually. 

This book was first published in 1983.

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About the Author

Peter Williams (1937 2016) was an internationally renowned Bach scholar and performer. He held the first Chair in Performance Practice in Britain at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Director of the Russell Collection of Harpsichords and latterly Dean of Music. He was also the first Arts and Sciences Distinguished Chair at Duke University, North Carolina. He was the author of many books, including The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (3 volumes, Cambridge, 1981 1984), Bach, Handel, Scarlatti 1685 1985 (Cambridge, 1985), The Life of Bach (Cambridge, 2003) and J. S. Bach: A Life in Music (Cambridge, 2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0868612375
• ISBN 13: 9780868612379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 233
• Editor: Williams Peter