Download or read book The Geography of Developing Areas written by Glyn Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than presenting the global South to students as a set of problems (rapid urbanisation, population growth, poverty etc), this textbook focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role it plays in shaping and responding to current global change. The text integrates 'traditional' concerns of development geographers (such as economic development and social inequality) with aspects of the global South usually given less attention (such as cultural identity and political conflict). Divided into four main sections: Representing the global South argues that images of the so.