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General Works Articles/Books about Individual Films Bibliography of articles/books about Metropolis (Fritz Lang) Bibliography of articles/books about Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) Abrams, Janet "Cine City: films en beschouwingen van de stedelijke ruimte 1895-1995 = Cine City: film and perceptions of pace 1895-1995." Archis 1994 July, n.7, p.10-12, Adil, Alev "Longing and (Un)belonging: Displacement and Desire in the Cinematic City." Paper from the Conference "INTER: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden", organised by the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS) in Norrköping 11-13 June 2007. Conference Proceedings published by Linköping University Electronic Press Aitken S. "Turnng the Self: City Space and SF Horror Movies." Lost in space : geographies of science fiction / edited by Rob Kitchin and James Kneale. London ; New York : Continuum, 2002. MAIN Stack PN3433.6.L67 2002 Albrecht, Donald. "Architecture and film: Utopia descending." Modulus 1987, no.18, p.[120]-133 Albrecht, Donald. Designing dreams : modern architecture in the movies New York : Harper & Row, c1986. ENVI: PN1995.9.S4 A41 1986 Albright, Deron. "Tales of the City: Applying Situationist Social Practice to the Analysis of the Urban Drama." Criticism-A Quarterly for Literature & the Arts. 45(1):89-108. 2003 Winter Aldrige, Henry B. "From Delight to Disaster: Images of New York City in Feature Films. (Cinema Studies).(Brief Article)." Michigan Academician 34.1 (Spring 2002): 22(1). AlSayyad, Nezar "The cinematic city: between modernist utopia and postmodernist dystopia." Built environment 2000, v.26, n.4, p.268-281 AlSayyad, Nezar Cinematic Cities: Historicizing the Modern from Reel to Real [Video] In this lecture Nezar AlSayyad, professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History at UCB, addresses some of the themes in his book Cinematic cities, historicizing the modern from reel to real. This event took place at the University of California, Berkeley on November 28,

Gert de Roo & Elisabete A. Silva (eds.), A Planner's Encounter With Complexity (New Directions in Planning Theory). Ashgate Pub Co. 2010. 336 pp. Published at: 13 March 2011 Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In the "Planners' Encounter with Complexity", the authors present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change, being either progressive or destructive, evolving non-linearly and alternating between stable and dynamic periods. If the environment that is subject to change is adaptive, self-organizing, robust and flexible in relation to this change, a process of evolution and co-evolution can be expected. This understanding of an evolving environment is not mainstream to every planner. However, in this book the authors argue that environments confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes might be more real than the idea that an environment is simply a planner's creation. Above all, they argue that recognizing the 'complexity' of our environment offers an entirely new perspective on our world and our environment, on planning theory and practice, and on the raise on d'etre of the planners that we are.

Research Papers 220)     Cowen, Deborah and Vanessa Parlette Inner Suburbs at Stake: Investing in Social Infrastructure in Scarborough, June 2011, 86pp. ISSN 0316-0068; ISBN 978-0-7727-1482-4. 219)     Jim Simmons, Larry Bourne, and Shizue Kamikihara, The Changing Economy of Urban Neighbourhoods: An Exploration of Place of Work Data for the Greater Toronto Region, December 2009, 44 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1477-0 218)     Greg Suttor, Rental Paths from Postwar to Present: Canada Compared, December 2009, 59 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1476-3 217)     Michael Noble, Lovely Spaces in Unknown Places: Creative City Building in Toronto's Inner Suburbs, March 2009, 50 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1474-9 216)     Jason Hackworth, Habitat for Humanity and the Neoliberal Media: A Comparison of News Coverage in Canada and the United States, March 2009, 39 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1473-2 215)     David Wachsmuth, From Abandonment to Affordable Housing: Policy Options for Addressing Toronto's Abandonment Problem, November 2008, 48 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1472-5 214)     Katharine N. Rankin, with the assistance of Jim Delaney, Courtney Hood, Justin Ngan and Sabin Ninglekhu, Commercial Change in Toronto's West-Central Neighbourhoods, September 2008 ISBN-13 978-0-7727-1471-8 213)     Emily Paradis, Sylvia Novac, Monica Sarty, J. David Hulchanski, Better Off in a Shelter? A Year of Homelessness and Housing among Status Immigrant, Non-Status Migrant, and Canadian-Born Families, July 2008, 89 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-7727-1469-5 212)     Duncan Maclennan, Housing for the Toronto Economy, July 2008, 72 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1468-8 211)     R. Alan Walks and Richard Maaranen, The Timing, Patterning, & Forms of Gentrification & Neighbourhood Change in Montreal, Toronto, & Vancouver, 1961 to 2001, May 2008, 109 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1465-7 210)     Jason Hackworth, Neoliberalism, Social Welfare, and the Politics of Faith in the United States, June 2007, 36 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-145

Urban Environmental Pollution Creating Healthy, Liveable Cities People all over the world are migrating to cities in search of jobs and cultural advantages, especially in Asia. This has resulted in the formation of huge megapolitan areas and surrounding periurban environs. In China, a 40 million urban area is planned. The effects of cities on people are not well-understood. Cities require huge amounts of energy, resulting in large quantities of waste products, causing unsustainable environments. Cities are sources of air, water and soil pollution. Light and noise pollution are now known to adversely affect urban people. The role of urban heat islands and air pollution, Pm 2.5 and ozone, on human health is beginning to emerge. Lack of green space may have psychological effects for urban dwellers. We began to explore the nature of the urban environment and pollution on human health and well-being at UEP2010 in Boston in June of 2010. This very successful conference identified many areas of urban life that warranted further investigation. UEP2012 aims to pick up where UEP2010 left off and continue the exploration of the urban environment and how we can begin to create a healthy and liveable environment in cities. Topics List New information about urban environments and how they function Pollution problems and possible solutions Role of the built environment in alleviating heat islands Human health problems and solutions Role of vegetation in mitigating urban pollution and human health problems Innovative methods for alleviation of urban stress problems Submit abstract here

"From Buildings to Cities: Techniques for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Urban Form and Function The built environment is a significant factor in many urban processes, yet direct measures of built form are seldom used in geographical studies. Representation and analysis of urban form and function could provide new insights and improve the evidence base for research. So far progress has been slow due to limited data availability, computational demands, and a lack of methods to integrate built environment data with aggregate geographical analysis. Spatial data and computational improvements are overcoming some of these problems, but there remains a need for techniques to process and aggregate urban form data. Here we develop a Built Environment Model of urban function and dwelling type classifications for Greater London, based on detailed topographic and address-based data (sourced from Ordnance Survey MasterMap). The multi-scale approach allows the Built Environment Model to be viewed at fine-scales for local planning contexts, and at city-wide scales for aggregate geographical analysis, allowing an improved understanding of urban processes. This flexibility is illustrated in the two examples, that of urban function and residential type analysis, where both local-scale urban clustering and city-wide trends in density and agglomeration are shown. While we demonstrate the multi-scale Built Environment Model to be a viable approach, a number of accuracy issues are identified, including the limitations of 2D data, inaccuracies in commercial function data and problems with temporal attribution. These limitations currently restrict the more advanced applications of the Built Environment Model."

Martin Horak. Governing the Post-Communist City: Institutions and Democratic Development in Prague. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xii + 270 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8020-9328-8. Reviewed by Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning , University of Lisbon) Published on H-Urban (October, 2010) Commissioned by Alexander Vari Institutional Change and Local Government Performance in Prague In Governing the Post-Communist City Martin Horak examines and assesses the performance of democratic local government in the first decade of post-communist Prague (1990-2000). In his analysis, Horak considers, among other dimensions, the process through which policies are produced, the degree of openness in the policy process, the ability to govern systematically, and the input from societal actors. The decision to use a local case and a holistic perspective to study post-communist politics proves wise as it allows a better understanding of post-communist transformations than would have been possible through a national case study. The book is organized into six chapters focused on two main research questions: 1) what impacts did the nature of the decision-making environment have on the behavior of political leaders in early post-communist Prague; and 2) what were the longer-term effects of this decision-making behavior? Horak argues, in the first case, that Prague's local politicians reacted to their unstable and institutionally incoherent environment by seeking simple, short-term solutions in key areas of urban policy. In the second case, his argument is that increasing returns processes were responsible for the maintenance of Prague's mix of institutional forms, which were created by decisions taken during the early post-communist period. Two different policy areas are examined: freeways construction and the management of Prague's historical center. In chapter 1, Horak offers an introductory account of institutional changes and governme

Urban transport and the environment: an international perspective WCTR Society, Institute for Transport Policy Studies, Unʼyu Seisaku Kenkyū Kikō 0 Resenhas Emerald Group Publishing, 2004 - 515 páginas The damaging environmental impact of urban transport, as recognised by the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is a worsening global problem that needs to be tackled with local solutions. At the same time, urban transport has been causing serious local environmental problems, particularly in developing countries. This book was commissioned with the aim of helping to develop solutions by sharing experience from around the world. Four extensive chapters by leading researchers give an overview of the problem, analyse structures and trends in urban transportation, list the various ways transport affects the environment, and critically review the whole range of policy countermeasures available. The second half of the volume is given over to a uniquely valuable collection of case studies of 21 metropolises, carefully selected to provide a cross-section of different types of city from across the developing and developed world. The relevant characteristics of these cities are systematically described: socio-economic background; local condition of transport and the environment; policy planning, implementation, and evaluation, all with concrete examples. Key data are then presented in charts with a common structure to facilitate comparisons between cities.

Hyun Bang Shin Page contents > Title | Departments | Biography | Research Interests | Selected recent publications Title Lecturer in Urban Geography Departments Department of Geography and Environment Biography Hyun Shin joined the Department of Geography and Environment in 2008 as Lecturer in Urban Geography. He is also an Associate at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE and a Research Associate at the White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Leeds. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2002-2003) and also at the Asia Research Centre, LSE (2006-2007). Hyun Shin was awarded his BSc from Seoul National University in 1994, and worked in the construction sector for six years before arriving at the LSE to pursue his MSc (2000) and PhD (2006). His main research interests lie in critically analysing political and economic dynamics of contemporary urban (re-)development and its socio-spatial implications, with special emphasis on Asian cities. He has recently received the STICERD/LSE Annual Fund New Researcher Award (2009-2010) to fund his examination of the social legacy of 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games in China. To view more details, please visit Dr Shin's personal website, http://personal.lse.ac.uk/shin Research Interests Political and economic dynamics of urban (re-)development Socio-spatial implications of East Asian urban development Urban governance and community participation Housing and social change Urban heritage conservation Mega-events and social legacy Transitional cities, especially cities in post-reform China  Selected recent publications Shin, H.B. (2010) 'Urban Conservation and Revalorisation of Dilapidated Historic Quarters: the case of Nanluoguxiang in Beijing', Cities Vol.27, Supplement 1, pp. S43-S54   Shin, H.B. (2010) 'Empowerment or marginalisation: land, housing and property rights in poor neighbourhoods' in Wu, F. and Webster, C. (eds.) Marginalization

Journal of Biourbanism Journal of Biourbanism (JBU) is a peer-reviewed international online journal of architecture, planning, and built environment studies. The journal aims at establishing a bridge between theory and practice in the fields of architectural, design research, and urban planning and built environment and social studies. It reports on the latest research findings innovative approaches for creating responsive environments, with special emphasis on human aspects as a central issue of urban study and architecture. Publisher Published by International Society of Biourbanism [www.biourbanism.org]

SPRAWL Sick of the suburbs: How badly designed communities trash our health 21 BY SCOTT CARLSON 23 JAN 2012 7:36 AM Richard Jackson, from the PBS miniseries, Designing Healthy Communities. This story is excerpted from a longer piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Researchers can have revelatory moments in remarkable places - the African savannah, an ancient library, or the ruins of a lost civilization. But Richard J. Jackson's epiphany occurred in 1999 in a banal American landscape: a dismal stretch of the car-choked Buford Highway, near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Jackson, who was then the head of the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC, was rushing to get to a meeting where leading epidemiologists would discuss the major health threats of the 21st century. On the side of the road he saw an elderly woman walking, bent with a load of shopping bags. It was a blisteringly hot day, and there was little hope that she would find public transportation. ((At that moment, Jackson says, "I realized that the major threat was how we had built America." His center had already been dealing with problems that he suspected had origins in the built environment - asthma caused by particulates from cars and trucks, lead poisoning from contaminated houses and soil, and obesity, heart conditions, and depression exacerbated by lack of access to fresh food, stressful living conditions, long commutes, and isolating, car-oriented communities. Treatments could come in the form of pills, inhalers, and insulin shots, but real solutions had bigger implications. "More and more, I came to the conclusion that this is about how we build the world that we live in," he says. Jackson, who is now a professor and chair of environmental health sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles' School of Public Health, has since become one of the leading voices calling for better urban design for the sake

Due to request of delaying the submission by several authors, the deadline of "Cities, Technologies and Planning" (CTP 12) for submitting full paper has been extended to 28 February, 2012.  Due to request of delaying the submission by several authors, the deadline of "Cities, Technologies and Planning" (CTP 12) for submitting full paper has been extended to 28 February, 2012. "Cities, Technologies and Planning" CTP 12   http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/ctp_12/descr.html in conjunction with The 2012 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2012) June 18th  - June 20th, 2012 Federal University of Bahia , Salvador de Bahia, Brasil  http://www.iccsa.org/ Description 'Share' term has turned into a key issue of many successful initiatives in recent times. Following the advent of Web 2.0, such positive experiences based on mass collaboration generated "Wikinomics" have become "Socialnomics", where "Citizens are voluntary sensors". During the past decades, the main issue in GIS implementation has been the availability of sound spatial information. Nowadays, the wide diffusion of electronic devices providing geo-referenced information have resulted in the production of extensive spatial information datasets. This trend has led to "GIS wikification", where mass collaboration plays a key role in main components of spatial information frameworks (hardware, software, data, and people). Some authors (Goodchild, 2007) talk about "Volunteered Geographic Information" (VGI), as the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic information provided by individuals voluntarily creating their own contents by marking the locations of occurred events or by labeling certain existing features. not already been shown on map. The term "neogeography" is often adopted to describe people activities when using and creating their own maps, geo-tagging pictures,

Urban transport XII: urban transport and the environment in the 21st century C. A. Brebbia, V. Dolezel 0 Resenhas WIT, 2006 - 935 páginas Transportation in cities, with its related environmental and social concerns, continues to be a topic of the utmost priority for urban authorities and central governments around the world. This is reflected in the proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century, stressing the continuous steady growth and research into the urban transport systems control aspects, information and simulation systems. The papers included in the volume cover a wide variety of topics, such as: Transport sustainability; Urban transport planning and management; Transport modelling and simulation; Transport logistics and operations research; Transport security and safety; Transport technology; Land use and transport integration; Environmental and ecological considerations; Intelligent transport systems; Public transport systems; Information systems and GPS applications and Road

Australian Planner is Australia's leading peer reviewed journal for the planning profession, and is the most read and influential planning journal in Australia and the Pacific Region. It is published quarterly, distributed in March, June, September and December each year. Readership includes those involved in the planning profession including government officials, university staff and students, urban designers, urban, regional, social, environmental, economic and transport planners, as well as those involved in related industries, both nationally and overseas. Australian Planner provides a forum for planning news, opinion and research and each edition of the journal contains a component surrounding a particular theme or topic of interest. Australian Planner has become a well respected publication and a very popular source of knowledge and information for professional planners and those involved in the built environment. Australian Planner provides the planning profession in Australia and Pacific Region with a platform for: Content related directly to informing, educating and interesting those in the planning and the built environment sectors across Australia and internationally To offer content on a wide spectrum of planning related issues and to relate these issues to the built environment in the 21st century To ensure that planners have a forum for mature and informed discussion and debate on relevant topics To assist in determining and promoting the cause of environmentally sustainable planning practices To continually improve the professional reputation and standing of Australian planners To link Australian based planners with global trends

Advances in city transport: case studies S. Basbas 0 Resenhas WIT Press, 2006 - 193 páginas Highlighting the highly topical subject of transport and the environment and the closely related field of town planning, this book contains chapters concerning developments in the transportation systems of various cities all over the world. These include Singapore, Sao Paulo, Santiago, Bilbao, Eindhoven, Adelaide, Bangalore and Thessaloniki. The studies featured will be of interest to postgraduate researchers in transport and the environment, engineers and planners working within transport and environment ministries and local authorities, and consultants.

Announcement and Call for Papers: Urban Environmental Pollution conference Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2010, we are delighted to announce the 2nd Urban Environmental Pollution conference with focus on Creating Healthy, Liveable Cities. In Boston in June of 2010, we began to explore the nature of the urban environment and pollution on human health and well-being. UEP2010 identified many areas of urban life that warranted further investigation and we aim to continue the exploration of the urban environment and how we can begin to create a healthy and liveable environment in cities.

ECOLOGY, PLANNING, AND MANAGEMENT OF URBAN FORESTS 2008, Part II, 219-239, DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71425-7_14 Landscape Corridors in Shanghai and Their Importance in Urban Forest Planning Junxiang Li, Yujie Wang and Yong-Chang Song Download PDF (823.7 KB)Permissions & Reprints Look Inside Related Book View Related Documents full access Journal Article Changes in avian species composition following surface mining and reclamation along a riparian forest corridor in southern IndianaM. J. Lacki no access Book Chapter Opportunities and Alternatives for Enhancing Urban Forests in Compact Cities in Developing CountriesC. Y. Jim no access Book Chapter Benefits of Urban Green Space for Improving Urban ClimateVolker Heidt no access Book Chapter Urban Ecology Studies in China, with an Emphasis on ShanghaiYong-Chang Song no access Book Chapter Toward a Landscape Ecology of Cities: Beyond Buildings, Trees, and Urban ForestsJianguo Wu no access Journal Article A case study of urban ecological networks and a sustainable city: Tehran's metropolitan areaBehnaz Aminzadeh no access Book Chapter Linking Man and Nature Landscape Systems Landscaping blue-green networkS.-K. HONG no access Journal Article Impact of landscape and corridor design on primates in a large-scale industrial tropical plantation landscapeRobert Nasi Book Chapter Evaluation and Planning of Wildlife Habitat in Urban LandscapeY. Natuhara Book Chapter Urban Forestry and the Eco-City: Today and TomorrowMargaret M. Carreiro Scroll upScroll down EXPORT CITATIONABOUT Abstract Shanghai has now experienced more than 20 years of innovation and open experiments in promoting economic growth. However, rapid urbanization has been accompanied by increasingly serious environment pollution that already affects Shanghai's sustainable development goals. The Shanghai municipal government has realized that it is very important to develop urban forests to improve environment quality and provide livable places for its urban residents.

he Environment, Space, and Place Division (ESPD) seeks participants for theTenth Annual Cultural Studies Association Meeting, to be held at theUniversity of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA,March 28-April 1, 2012 (1) Environmental CommodificationIn keeping with the conference theme of "Culture Matters," papers aresolicited for one session addressing "environmental commodification."  Theproduction of material culture necessarily engages use of the physicalenvironment.  But especially since the environmental movement gainedpopularity in the 1960s, we have seen the rise of environmentalcommodification in the form of products and marketing designed to sell theenvironment in the form of consumer goods, whether they be "green products"such as hemp clothing or "natural" products (e.g. cosmetics, scentedcandles, furniture) intended to make you feel you are bringing theenvironment into your home.  In this session, we want to critically examineproducts, practices and discourses engaged in the material commodificationof the environmental at any scale and in any location. (2)  Materiality of PlacesPlaces are socially constructed, but in many cases they are also materiallyproduced through architecture, landscaping, or the intentional placement ofobjects.  This session will look specifically about the role ofmateriality-rather than the organization of space itself-in the productionof places: choices of design, manufacture, materials, textures, colors andobjects as signs used in the production of place, intentionally orotherwise.  In doing so, this panel aims to explore the role thatmateriality plays in the production of place and, in turn, on socialrelations and cultural understanding. Persons interested in submitting papers for consideration in either sessionshould send the following:*       A 500-word abstract for your paper*       Name, email address, phone number, institutional affiliation, anddepartment.*       List of audiovisual

Building the ecological city Rodney R. White 0 Resenhas Woodhead, 2002 - 238 páginas Our cities are plagued by problems of congestion, waste, and pollution that deplete natural resources, damage the environment, and reduce the quality of life for their citizens. The irony is, as this fascinating new study shows, it doesn't have to be like this. Building the Ecological City describes the problems we face and puts forward solutions to the question - how can we build cities that provide an acceptable standard of living for their inhabitants without depleting the ecosystems and bio-geochemical cycles on which they depend?The book suggests and examines the concept of urban metabolism which characterizes the city as a set of interlinked systems of physical flows linking air, land, and water. A series of chapters looks at the production and management of waste, energy use and air emissions, water supply and management, urban land use, and air quality issues. Within the broader context of climate change, the book then considers a range of practical strategies for restoring the health of urban ecosystems from the remediation of 'brownfield' land to improving air quality and making better use of water resources.A major contribution to better urban management and planning for both citizens and the environment, Building the Ecological City is an invaluable sourcebook for urban and national planners, architects, and environmental agencies

Regional Knowledge Economies Markets, Clusters and Innovation Philip Cooke, University Research Professor in Regional Development and Director, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff, Carla De Laurentis, Researcher, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK, Franz Tödtling, Professor and Head, Institute for Regional Development and Environment, WU Wien, University of Economics and Business, Austria and Michaela Trippl, Researcher, Institute for Regional Development and Environment, WU Wien, University of Economics and Business, Austria 2007 336 pp Hardback 978 1 84542 529 6 £79.95 on-line discount £71.96 2009 336 pp Paperback 978 1 84844 524 6 £35.00 on-line discount £28.00     This book is also available as an ebook 978 1 84720 693 0 'This volume represents an important information source for a broad range of disciplines - regional and development economics, public policy, economic geography and industrial studies. It will interest teachers, researchers, students and policymakers within these fields.' - Economic Outlook and Business Review Contents: Preface Part I: Conceptual Issues 1. Introduction: Aims of the Book 2. The Emergent Knowledge Economy: Concepts and Evidence 3. Knowledge-based Sectors: Key Drivers of Innovation and Modes of Knowledge Exchange 4. Local Clusters and Global Networks 5. Varieties of Business System and Innovation Part II: Empirical Findings 6. Introduction to Key Research Results 7. UK ICT and Biotechnology Performance: The Significance of Collaboration and Clustering 8. Austrian Catch-up in Knowledge-based Sectors: Research Exploitation, Spatial Clustering and Knowledge Links 9. Comparing the Cases and Lessons for Knowledge-based Sector Policy 10. Reflections on the Research and Conclusions for Policy Index

The City as a Terminal The Urban Context of Logistics and Freight Transport Imprint: Ashgate Published: November 2008 Format: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 224 pages Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-0913-1 Price : £55.00 » Website price: £49.50 BL Reference: 388.3'3 LoC Control No: 2008025990   Print friendly information sheet Send to a friend Markus Hesse, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Series : Transport and Mobility The on-time delivery of goods is regarded as a primary factor of the urban economy and is being monitored by businesses and government alike. However, much analysis of freight transportation and the flow of goods into, out of and within urban areas focuses on functional, business-related approaches. This book examines the interrelationship between logistics development on one hand and urban development and geographical issues, such as land use and location, on the other. Avoiding certain one-dimensional views on 'logistics impacts on the city', it discloses the complex interaction of the logistics system with the entire urban environment. It also bridges the gap between recent geographical research into new production systems and (post)modern consumption patterns. Illustrated with case studies from the United States, Germany, France, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, it examines issues such as: the historical nexus between urban areas and logistics; current urban developments with regards to goods distribution; city-region related characteristics of freight flows; locational dynamics; and specific freight related urban problems and conflicts. Contents: Preface; Introduction: the city as terminal. Logistics and freight distribution in an urban context; The city - from market place to terminal; Technocapitalism and logistics transformation; Geographies of distribution; The Berlin-Brandenburg case study; The Northern California case study; Logistics and freight distribution from a policy and planning perspective; Stability and change: lo