Book Review: URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY by D. Clark. Routledge, London, 1996. pp. vii + 211.
✍ Scribed by White, Paul
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1077-3495
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✦ Synopsis
an appropriate place to explore these broader questions is debatable, but certainly migration researchers need to be aware of, and grapple with, the general malaise of `separate development' (Findlay and Graham, 1991) in population geography as a whole.
Despite the Australian focus of the book, it would also have been useful for authors to make some comment on how their ®ndings ®t in with, or repudiate, theories or empirical patterns identi®ed elsewhere. The international literature was acknowledged in places (e.g. Hugo in Chapter 8, Counterurbanisation'), but elsewhere, in otherwise interesting and innovative works (e.g. O'Conner and Stimpson in Chapter 7, Convergence and divergence of demographic and economic trends', which identi®es the increasing mismatch between population and industrial activity), there was an obvious need to situate important theoretical ®ndings in a broader context. Is Australia's experience unique, and if so, does this make the issue more important from a policy perspective? Indeed, some chapters were woefully short of references in general (e.g. Gipps, Chapter 19, `The journey to work').