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Blackwell City Reader, The 2nd edition


Blackwell City Reader, The 2nd edition

Paperback by Bridge, Gary (University of Bristol, UK); Watson, Sophie (The Open University, UK)

Blackwell City Reader, The

£29.95

ISBN:
9781405189828
Publication Date:
19 Feb 2010
Edition/language:
2nd edition / English
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages:
480 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 26 May 2024
Blackwell City Reader, The

Description

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City

Contents

Foreword ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I Materialities 3 Introducing Materialities 5 1 The Great Towns 11 Friedrich Engels 2 Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17 William Cronon 3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32 David Harvey 4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40 Manuel Castells 5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49 Allen J. Scott 6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60 Ash Amin 7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72 Sujata Patel 8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79 Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen 9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86 Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack Part II Mobilities 95 Introducing Mobilities 97 10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103 Georg Simmel 11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111 Michel de Certeau 12 The Arcades Project 119 Walter Benjamin 13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126 Saskia Sassen 14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133 Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero 15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138 Arjun Appadurai 16 Connections 144 John Urry 17 Driving in the City 152 Nigel Thrift 18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159 Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu Part III Division and Difference 169 Introducing Division and Difference 171 19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177 Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton 20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186 William Julius Wilson 21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193 Mike Davis 22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201 Neil Smith 23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the "Purely Atomic" Individual 211 Don Mitchell 24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221 Michel Foucault 25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228 Iris Marion Young 26 City A/Genders 237 Sophie Watson 27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243 George Chauncey Part IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253 Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 255 28 The Public Realm 261 Richard Sennett 29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273 Jane Jacobs 30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278 Nancy N. Chen 31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284 Setha M. Low 32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293 Sharon Zukin 33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303 Judith R. Walkowitz 34 Homo Palpitans: Balzac's Novels and Urban Personality 311 Franco Moretti 35 Writing the City 317 Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley 36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323 James Donald Part V Urban Politics and Planning 331 Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 333 37 The Growth of the City 339 Ernest W. Burgess 38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345 Le Corbusier 39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília 355 James Holston 40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365 Anthony D. King 41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374 Edward W. Soja 42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382 John Hull Mollenkopf 43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391 John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch 44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402 Susan S. Fainstein 45 Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism" 411 Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore 46 China's Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419 John Friedmann 47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428 Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang Index 433

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