Mathematical criminology : by David F. Greenberg. Rutgers University Press (30 College Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901), 1979, 428 pp., hardcover, $19.50.

Abstract

In the early twenty-first century geographers continue to examine relations between cities, towns, and what may lie beyond their perceived borders. Yet efforts are now underway to redefine the urban system canon in order to better address questions pertaining to the global system of urbanization. The approach still holds explanatory purchase for both systems of cities and cities as systems. Research agendas have been updated, however. The emphasis for interurban relations has shifted from rank to network – or from national hierarchy to transnational connectivity. Research concerning core–periphery relations at the intraurban scale increasingly takes into account the rise of massively expansive yet functionally integrated polycentric city-regions in virtually every world realm. Nonetheless, poststructuralist perspectives such as mobile urbanism pose further challenges to system-based constructs.