Environment, Place, and Growth
City Characteristics and Location Choice
Seiten
2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-3187-1 (ISBN)
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-3187-1 (ISBN)
This innovative book explores how the location of a city affects its growth. Boris A. Portnov discusses how an urban location can be understood as a package of attributes in which several essential components must be present to ensure successful development.
The author defines the collection of key attributes, including varying geographical elements and environmental characteristics, as a ‘location package’ (LP) and details how the synergy of the LP of a city can make it an ideal place to live. He outlines the qualities that are considered essential for an urban location, such as favourable climate, distance from environmental hazards, attractive scenery and limited long distance commuting. The chapters delve into detailed case studies that assess the LP of major cities of the world, including New York, Tokyo, and Istanbul. The book also examines the locational attributes of cities of the past that are associated with their survival in the modern day, such as proximity to freshwater sources, protected areas, and fertile agricultural land.
Students and scholars of urban geography, population studies, and regional studies will greatly benefit from this discerning book. It is also an essential resource for practitioners and policymakers in urban and regional planning.
The author defines the collection of key attributes, including varying geographical elements and environmental characteristics, as a ‘location package’ (LP) and details how the synergy of the LP of a city can make it an ideal place to live. He outlines the qualities that are considered essential for an urban location, such as favourable climate, distance from environmental hazards, attractive scenery and limited long distance commuting. The chapters delve into detailed case studies that assess the LP of major cities of the world, including New York, Tokyo, and Istanbul. The book also examines the locational attributes of cities of the past that are associated with their survival in the modern day, such as proximity to freshwater sources, protected areas, and fertile agricultural land.
Students and scholars of urban geography, population studies, and regional studies will greatly benefit from this discerning book. It is also an essential resource for practitioners and policymakers in urban and regional planning.
Boris A. Portnov, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
Contents
Preface vii
1 Environment, place and growth – introduction
2 Location as a package of attributes
3 Locational factors in theoretical and conceptual studies
4 Locational indices in empirical research
5 Locational package – lessons from the past
6 Locational package – contemporary trends
7 Locational package and the concentration of wealth
8 On the relativity of urban location
9 Temporal change in the importance of locational attributes
10 Locational package of major cities worldwide
11 Application of the locational package concept to intraurban
analysis
12 Conclusions ... the ‘cake’ model?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0353-3187-X / 103533187X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0353-3187-1 / 9781035331871 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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