John Rennie Short
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 175294 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Rennie Short |
| NOMBRES | John Rennie |
| APELLIDO | Short |
| FIRMA | SHORT J R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7141-6626 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 554 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Contesting Place Names
Building on the work of critical toponymy, this paper provides an example of the active contestation of a place name. Since the early 1990s, successive Korean governments have argued that the singular use of “Sea of Japan” is a colonial legacy. We provide a brief historical context for this dispute. We identify the array of names currently used in newspapers, journals, educational texts, and internet sites and show that a dual naming is now a mor…
Housing and Residential Structure
First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential structure. The book is divided into three parts. Part One focuses on the demand-orientated approaches of human ecology and neo-classical economics. Part Two discusses the institutional approaches with reference to an analysis of private and public sector…
The urban effects of the emerging middle class in the global south
This article explores the implications of a growing middle-income population on the cities of the global South. The emergence of this group, situated between the poor and the very rich, long the standard binary categorization of understanding the global urban South, has important implications for physical reconfigurations and changing social structures. We discuss the reasons behind the rise of this middle-income category, note some of its charac…
Hydraulic City
Nikhil Anand. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. $26.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8223-6269-2); $99.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8223-6254-8).This
What Do Global Metrics Tell Us about the World
There are now a wide variety of global indicators that measure different economic, political and social attributes of countries in the world. This paper seeks to answer two questions. First, what is the degree of overlap between these different measures? Are they, in fact, measuring the same underlying dimension? To answer this question, we employ a principal component analysis (PCA) to 15 indices across 145 countries. The results demonstrate tha…
A Fragile Hold on Consumption
This paper explores consumption patterns, access to banking services, attitudes to government and aspirations of the growing and vulnerable middle class in the global South. Data comes from a population survey conducted in 2016 in Cali, Colombia. We compare middle income and lower income populations in order to establish differences and similarities. We aim to answer a basic question. What are the patterns of consumption for this new middle class…
Hosting the Olympic Games
Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events. It uncovers the financing of the Games, reviewing existing studies to evaluate the costs and benefits, and draws on case study experiences of the Summer and Winter Games from the past forty years to assess the short- and long-term urban legacies for host cities. Written in an easily accessible style and format, it provides an in-d…
Global Cities
Global cities are the command centers of the global economy and major hubs in the transnational flow of capital, people, ideas, and practices. The architecture of the global urban network is structured by these various flows. Global city status is maintained and attempted through hosting international events, marketing campaigns, and urban makeovers. Global cities are sites of cosmopolitanism and increasing social polarizations.
The urban informal economy
An Introduction to Urban Geography
This book, first published in 1984, is an attempt to make students aware of the variety in the urban condition and to introduce them to some of the relationships operating between space and society. From the broad aim of seeking to show the relationship between urbanism and society flows a number of sub-themes, including the importance of cross-cultural comparisons and contrasts, re-distributional consequences and the role of government. This boo…
City Marketing
Citizen satisfaction with public goods and government services in the global urban south
The Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act and Competing National Imaginaries of the USA
In 2013, the US Supreme Court overturned key elements of the Voting Rights Act relating to the racial geography of the USA and relations between federal and state government. The historical background to the Act and its role in changing the political geography of voting are explored. A detailed analysis of the ruling, Shelby v. Holder, reveals competing national imaginaries. The Court's majority view saw a cohesive nation where past assumptions o…
Urban political ecology
Cities are now considerably unsustainable in that they cannot continue in the same way—consuming resources and generating waste. But what does urban sustainability mean? There are a variety of terms, adjectives and meanings associated with “sustainability” from ecological, environmental, social, political, cultural and economic perspectives. The concept in part stems from an appreciation that the environment is of limited capacity. It questions t…
Cities and Nature
Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated with in-depth examination of theory and critical themes. Greater discussion is given to urbanization trends and megacities; the pos…
Representing Country in the Creative Postcolonial City
This article contributes to theories of the postcolonial city. The town of Alice Springs/Mparntwe is situated in the middle of Australia. Its shift from colonial control center to postcolonial city involves four interrelated processes: land rights negotiations, residential segregation, the use and regulation of public space, and the development of a cultural-creative economy based on “Aboriginal” art. Continuances and ruptures of the postcolonial…
Flânerie and the globalizing city
In this paper we review the history and current revival of flânerie, assessing it as a lens for understanding and representing cities undergoing globalization. We will examine a strong connection of artist–flâneuristic and sociological practices in 21st-century transnational terms that nevertheless recall the heroic flânerie of the 19th century. We will emphasize a more Baudelairean cast to contemporary flânerie as a practice of subjective mediat…
A Typology of Urban Immigrant Neighborhoods
Using census data from 2000, the authors examine differentiation among urban immigrant neighborhoods in a sample of U.S. metropolitan areas. They use principal components analysis (PCA) followed by cluster analysis to identify four types of urban immigrant neighborhoods: Hispanic, White Working Class, Asian, and Gentrified. This typology describes the diversity of immigrant populations and immigrant neighborhoods across the urban U.S
No Accident
This paper considers the rise of traffic accidents in the creation of the modern city. The notion of accidents is deconstructed. There is a brief review of current literature on mobilities and then evidence is presented of the shifting configuration of vehicle–pedestrian accidents. The epidemic of traffic accidents of cities in developing world is noted and explained. The incidence of pedestrian traffic accidents is shown to reflect socio‐economi…
Urban Primacy
This paper reviews the empirical and theoretical material on urban primacy. The problems with data are highlighted. A measure of primacy is estimated and calculated for most countries in the world. Countries with relatively high rates of primacy are noted. The hyperprimacy of Thailand is discussed as well as the high primacy in middle-income Latin American countries, low-income African countries, and selected European countries. Countries with ve…
The Sage Companion to the City
This textbook provides a systematic A-Z to understanding the city that explains the interrelations between society, culture and economy
Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics
This study examines the relationship between the increasing globalization of the Summer Olympics and the effect on host cities. The impact of the Games on city structure, the competition to host the Games, the selling of the Games to urban communities and the opportunities, the dangers of the city as a focus of global media attention and the role of the Games in the global city imaginary are critically discussed
When America Became Suburban – By Robert A. Beauregard
The Decline of Inner Suburbs
In this article, we critically examine transformation and decline in US suburbs. We identify four distinct, chronological phases of development: suburban utopias, suburban conformity, suburban diversity, and suburban dichotomy. An element of this new suburban dichotomy is what we term suburban gothic. We theorize that the forces of an aging housing stock, land-use planning, and deindustrialization contribute to the divergent realities of US subur…
Megalopolis 50 Years On
This article examines Megalopolis 50 years after Gottmann's seminal study of the most urbanized region of the US Eastern Seaboard. His study provides an invaluable datum point, and we use it as a benchmark for reexamining the socio-spatial transformations of a city region. After redefining Megalopolis and showing major aggregate trends since 1950, we analyze 39 selected variables for place level census data for 2,353 places to perform a principal…
Getting away with it? Exposing the geographies of the super-rich
The Dirty Little Secret of World Cities Research
Imagined Country
This volume explores the relationship between siciety and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation
Yuppies, Yuffies and the New Urban Order
The paper examines changes in social relations which are causing a bifurcation in life chances and employment opportunities. The effects on spatial relations are noted, in particular the extension of commercial spaces and transformation of residential quarters. These new built forms embody the emerging tensions of the new urban order
From world cities to gateway cities
The focus on world cities has narrowed our understanding of the globalization/city relationship and ignores the processes of globalization occurring in almost all cities. By developing the notion of gateway cities, the authors seek to widen globalization research. They provide a list of topics that can be explored using this gateway city notion, including reglobalization, rescaling, representation, spectacle and urban regimes. These themes are us…
Reconstructing the Image of an Industrial City
There is increasing competition between cities to attract investment. Older industrial cities have a particularly difficult time. It is in this context that there is an attempt to rewrite the meaning of the industrial city. Constructing a new, more positive picture includes the marketing of a new image, constructing a new environment, and reorienting a city's relatinship with its physical environment. The process involves many actors, from busine…
The New Metropolitan Reality in the US
This paper critically evaluates the traditional metropolitan model of an urban core and a homogeneous suburban ring. Using place data from the US Bureau of the Census from 1980 to 2000, it examines 1639 suburbs from a sample of 13 metropolitan areas in the US. Poor, manufacturing, Black and immigrant suburbs are identified to show that metropolitan areas are less a simple dichotomous structure and more a mosaic of very diverse suburban places. Th…
Residential mobility
Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics
This study examines the relationship between the increasing globalization of the Summer Olympics and the effect on host cities. The impact of the Games on city structure, the competition to host the Games, the selling of the Games to urban communities and the opportunities, the dangers of the city as a focus of global media attention and the role of the Games in the global city imaginary are critically discussed
The Decline of Inner Suburbs
In this article, we critically examine transformation and decline in US suburbs. We identify four distinct, chronological phases of development: suburban utopias, suburban conformity, suburban diversity, and suburban dichotomy. An element of this new suburban dichotomy is what we term suburban gothic. We theorize that the forces of an aging housing stock, land-use planning, and deindustrialization contribute to the divergent realities of US subur…
The urban informal economy
Flânerie and the globalizing city
In this paper we review the history and current revival of flânerie, assessing it as a lens for understanding and representing cities undergoing globalization. We will examine a strong connection of artist–flâneuristic and sociological practices in 21st-century transnational terms that nevertheless recall the heroic flânerie of the 19th century. We will emphasize a more Baudelairean cast to contemporary flânerie as a practice of subjective mediat…
No Accident
This paper considers the rise of traffic accidents in the creation of the modern city. The notion of accidents is deconstructed. There is a brief review of current literature on mobilities and then evidence is presented of the shifting configuration of vehicle–pedestrian accidents. The epidemic of traffic accidents of cities in developing world is noted and explained. The incidence of pedestrian traffic accidents is shown to reflect socio‐economi…
The Urban Order
1. Introduction. Part I: The City and Economy:. 2. Cities and Economic Development. 3. The Urbanization of the Economy. 4. The City and the Global Economy. 5. The Political Economy of Urbanization. 6. Capital, Labor and the City Case Study 1: Part 1. 7. Capital, Labor and the City: Case Study 1: Part 2. 8. Yuppies, Yuffies and the New Urban Order: Case Study II. Part II: The City and Society:. 9. The Housing Market. 10. The Social Arena. 11. Life…
Megalopolis 50 Years On
This article examines Megalopolis 50 years after Gottmann's seminal study of the most urbanized region of the US Eastern Seaboard. His study provides an invaluable datum point, and we use it as a benchmark for reexamining the socio-spatial transformations of a city region. After redefining Megalopolis and showing major aggregate trends since 1950, we analyze 39 selected variables for place level census data for 2,353 places to perform a principal…
A Typology of Urban Immigrant Neighborhoods
Using census data from 2000, the authors examine differentiation among urban immigrant neighborhoods in a sample of U.S. metropolitan areas. They use principal components analysis (PCA) followed by cluster analysis to identify four types of urban immigrant neighborhoods: Hispanic, White Working Class, Asian, and Gentrified. This typology describes the diversity of immigrant populations and immigrant neighborhoods across the urban U.S
An Introduction to Political Geography
Introduction Part 1 The Political Geography of the World Order Uneven Development: the Capitalist Whirlpool The Rise and Fall of the Superpowers: the East-West Fulcrum The Multipolar World Part 2 The Political Geography of the State The State and the World Order The Nation State The State as Spatial Entity Part 3 The Political Geography of Participation People and the State The Global Villagers Citizens and the City
Citizen satisfaction with public goods and government services in the global urban south
Urban Primacy
This paper reviews the empirical and theoretical material on urban primacy. The problems with data are highlighted. A measure of primacy is estimated and calculated for most countries in the world. Countries with relatively high rates of primacy are noted. The hyperprimacy of Thailand is discussed as well as the high primacy in middle-income Latin American countries, low-income African countries, and selected European countries. Countries with ve…
Progressive human geography
Conflict and Compromise in the Built Environment
This paper examines the interaction of different agents involved with the production, consumption and control of new private housing. The context is central Berkshire, an area of high economic and residential growth. Continued housing growth and urban expansion runs counter to dominant local opinion, which is reflected by the activity of many community groups in the planning sphere. Typologies are offered of speculative house-builders and local c…
Residential Mobility in the Private Housing Market of Bristol
This paper provides information on present patterns of residential mobility in four areas of Bristol. It is shown that this movement is essentially a response to changing space requirements associated with changes in the family life cycle. Particularly important is the initial stage of household formation. The relationship between patterns of mobility and the entry rules and allocation procedures in the housing market is also discussed
Social Systems and Spatial Patterns
The disturbing case of the concentration of power in human geography
The increasing concentration of power in academic disciplines with the introduction of Research Assessment Exercises is noted. The case of human geography in the UK is discussed
The Intra‐urban Migration Process
Social Systems and Spatial Patterns
The Intra‐urban Migration Process
Residential mobility
Housing Improvement in the Inner City
Residential Mobility in the Private Housing Market of Bristol
This paper provides information on present patterns of residential mobility in four areas of Bristol. It is shown that this movement is essentially a response to changing space requirements associated with changes in the family life cycle. Particularly important is the initial stage of household formation. The relationship between patterns of mobility and the entry rules and allocation procedures in the housing market is also discussed
Patterns of Building Society and Local Authority Mortgage Lending in the 1970s
This paper summarises the broad patterns of mortgage lending in Britain in the 1970s as a background to a case study of mortgage lending in Bristol. Building society lending is compared over time and is contrasted with the pattern of local authority mortgage lending. The results of the Support Lending Scheme are also discussed. Finally the whole issue of finance for homeownership, with particular reference to the inner city, is evaluated in a dis…
Housing and Residential Structure
Housing Policy and the Inner City in the 1970s
Forms of Housing Production
The paper introduces the concept of forms of housing production. These are defined as combinations of conditions of production, elements of labour process, and relations of production articulated through a particular constellation of agents (builder, labourer, developer, consumer). The following forms are identified: 'pure' capitalist, self-produced, individual contract, institutional contract, and speculative production
Political Geography
An Introduction to Political Geography
Introduction Part 1 The Political Geography of the World Order Uneven Development: the Capitalist Whirlpool The Rise and Fall of the Superpowers: the East-West Fulcrum The Multipolar World Part 2 The Political Geography of the State The State and the World Order The Nation State The State as Spatial Entity Part 3 The Political Geography of Participation People and the State The Global Villagers Citizens and the City
Committee Rules OK? An Examination of Planning Committee Action on Officer Recommendations
In this paper the authors examine the role of councillors at the committee stage of development-control decisions. Their rejection of officer recommendations is studied for Bracknell District Council between 1974 and 1981. In rejecting recommendations, the committee may act to facilitate the approval of an application, or it may attempt to block a proposal. The issues at stake and the consequences of their actions are discussed
Political Geography
Social Systems and Spatial Patterns
The Urban Arena
Ideology and the urban crisis
The Urban Arena. Capital, State and Community in Contemporary Britain
In this brief book John Short explores the interactions among three groups of 'actors'?those representing capital, the state and communities?in contemporary Britain. 'Urban' in the title is somewhat misleading, for he argues that there are no specific urban processes; 'urban' is equated with 'local' where actions are taken in the context of what the representatives of capital and the state are doing. Whether they accept this terminology or not, m…
An Introduction to Urban Geography
Conflict and Compromise in the Built Environment
This paper examines the interaction of different agents involved with the production, consumption and control of new private housing. The context is central Berkshire, an area of high economic and residential growth. Continued housing growth and urban expansion runs counter to dominant local opinion, which is reflected by the activity of many community groups in the planning sphere. Typologies are offered of speculative house-builders and local c…
Construction Workers and the City
The aim in this paper is to highlight the importance of construction workers in the making of the built environment. After a discussion about the general nature of capital-labour relations in the construction industry, an example is taken of the recent history of the Builders' Labourers Federation of New South Wales, Australia. The impact of the union during the Sydney property boom of the 1970s is examined
Construction Workers and the City
This second of two related papers consists of an interview with Jack Mundey, Secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation (BLF) of New South Wales from 1968 to 1973. This was a period of a property boom and intense union activity which transformed the face of Sydney
Yuppies, Yuffies and the New Urban Order
The paper examines changes in social relations which are causing a bifurcation in life chances and employment opportunities. The effects on spatial relations are noted, in particular the extension of commercial spaces and transformation of residential quarters. These new built forms embody the emerging tensions of the new urban order
Progressive human geography
Fear and Loathing in Docklands
gauntlet, not playing the usual game--going through my opponent's arguments point by point, highlighting their mistakes and misinterpretations of the original case. You've seen that movie before. Responses to responses are unspeakably tedious, the arguments end up in nit-picking, name-calling and mutual loathing. Good knockabout stuff but pantomime not drama, point-scoring not debate. The sheer weight of his misreading of my intentions makes me g…
The idea of wilderness
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