| Description |
xiv, 579 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell readers in geography |
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Blackwell readers in geography.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I: Reading City Imaginations -- Introduction -- 1 The Metropolis and Mental Life Georg Simmel -- 2 from The City of Tomorrow and its Planning -- Le Corbusier -- 3 from The Image of the City Kevin Lynch -- 4 from Dreaming the Rational City -- M. Christine Boyer -- 5 Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City Antony Vidler -- 6 from City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn W J. Mitchell -- 7 Literary Geography: Joyce, Woolf and the City Jeri Johnson -- 8 The Hem of Manhattan Djuna Barnes -- 9 from Bleak House Charles Dickens -- 10 from Dubliners James Joyce -- 11 from Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf -- 12 from The Sea Wall Marguerite Duras -- 13 from Beirut Blues Hanan al-Shaykh -- -- Part II: Reading Urban Economies -- Introduction -- 14 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis -- David Harvey -- 15 An Introduction to the Information Age -- Manuel Castells -- 16 from Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form -- Allen J. Scott -- 17 Flexibilization Through Metropolis: The Case of Postfordist Seoul, Korea -- Myung-Rae Cho -- 18 from Globalization and its Discontents -- Saskia Sassen -- 19 from Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West -- William Cronon -- 20 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis -- Edward W. Soia -- 21 from Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World -- Sharon Zukin -- 22 Reinventing the Johannesburg Inner City -- Lindsay Bremner -- 23 from The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project -- Susan Buck-Morss -- 24 from The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique -- of Political Economy J. K. Gibson-Graham -- 25 from Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and -- the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania -- Aili Mari Tripp -- -- Part III: Reading Division and Difference -- Introduction 26 The Growth of the City -- Ernest W Burgess -- -- -- -- -- 27 from City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the US -- Ira Katznelson -- 28 from The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, -- and Public Policy -- William Julius Wilson -- 29 Bastee Eviction and Housing Rights: A Case of Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Mohammed Mahbubur Rahman -- 30 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City -- Neil Smith -- 31 City A/genders -- Sophie Watson -- 32 Bodies-Cities -- Elizabeth Grosz -- 33 from Geographies of Disability -- Brendan Gleeson -- 34 from Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization -- Richard Sennett -- 35 from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles -- Mike Davis -- Part IV: Reading City Publics -- Introduction 36 from The Fall of Public Man -- Richard Sennett -- 37 from The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Jane M. Jacobs -- 38 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space -- in Costa Rica Setha M. Low -- 39 The Right to the City -- Henri Lefebvre -- 40 from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison -- Michel Foucault -- 41 from The Practice of Everyday Life -- Michel de Certeau -- 42 from The Arcades Project -- Walter Benjamin -- 43 from Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics -- Rosalyn Deutsche -- -- -- -- -- 44 from City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in -- Late-Victorian London -- Judith R. Walkowitz -- 45 from The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control -- of Disorder, and Women -- Elizabeth Wilson -- 46 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference -- Iris Marion Young -- 47 The Overexposed City -- Paul Virilio -- Part V: Reading Urban Interventions -- Introduction -- 48 From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in -- Urban Governance in Late Capitalism -- David Harvey -- 49 from Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place -- John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch -- 50 from Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning -- and Design in the Twentieth Century -- Peter Hall -- 51 from Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies -- Patsy Healey -- 52 Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position -- of US Planning -- Robert Beauregard -- 53 from The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia -- James Holston -- 54 from Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-economy -- Anthony D. King -- 55 The Dark Side of Modernism: Planning as Control of an Ethnic Minority -- Oren Yiftachel -- 56 from Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City -- Jane M. Jacobs -- 57 Mega-cities and the Urban Future: A Model for Replicating Best Practices -- Akhtar A. Badshah and Janice E. Perlman |
| Summary |
At a time when many cities are approaching a population of more than 20 million, this reader brings together work by academics and practitioners, journalists and novelists, which challenges established ways of thinking about urban life |
| Notes |
The Reader has been designed to accompany A Companion to the city (Blackwell, 2000) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban.
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Cities and towns -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Cities and towns.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Watson, Sophie.
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Bridge, Gary.
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| LC no. |
2002022630 |
| ISBN |
0631225145 paperback |
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0631225137 cased |
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