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THE subject which this work attempts to epitomize has become so important in the curriculum of geography that comprehensive statemerits and re-statements of its purpose and content are regularly appearing. Partly for reasons of its practical value in planning, it is, however, a subject which makes stern disciplinary demands on those who undertake comprehensive commitments within it, and there, is no longer the same welcome, as formerly, for collections of town studies, only popularly treated, such as this book is. The attention paid to the important city of New Orleans will make the reviewer's meaning clear : as it is only one of a miscellany of two hundred town studies—the number should have been heavily reduced—-it has only some eight hundred words to itself, in addition to hastily drawn sketches on a completely inadequate geographical scale. The most useful feature of the book is an extensive bibliography, which is marred, however, by the absence of any guide to the greatly varying merits of the works mentioned.
Urban Geography
A Study of Site, Evolution, Pattern and Classification in Villages, Towns and Cities. By Prof. Griffith Taylor. Pp. xv + 440. (London : Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1949.) 25s. net.
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FITZGERALD, W. Urban Geography. Nature 164, 337 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164337c0
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