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A Companion to the City

Beschreibung

At the start of the new millennium cities are firmly back on the agenda. Cities are the sites of complex global/local interconnections producing a multiplicity of social, cultural, political and economic spaces and forms. It is no longer possible, if it ever was, to look at the city from one perspective. A Companion to the City sets out to think about cities in more textured ways and brings together scholars from a range of fields to create a multidisciplinary approach to the city. Academics from disciplines as diverse as film studies and economics, philosophy and geography, turn their attention to the city and generate exciting new ways of thinking. This Companion provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective.

Autor

Gary Bridge is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and writes on issues of rationality, time, space and the city. Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Her recent books include Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (with Peter Murphy, 1997) and Postmodern Cities and Spaces (co-edited with Katherine Gibson, Blackwell, 1995).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1295g
• ISBN-13: 9780631210528
• ISBN-10: 0631210520
• Artikelnr.: 21414524

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"...covers everything from the role of dance in shaping cities torace and class in South Africa to the application of militarytechniques to city planning." (The Observer, 19 June 2011)

"Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson's Companion to the City isa wonderful compendium of some of the best writing on cities andurbanism. It covers a wide range of approaches encompassing thecity in literature, planning, representations of the city, policyand analysis. It truly is a 'companion' and like all goodcompanions has always something relevant to say whatever thereader's mood or whatever s/he is searching for." ProfessorElizabeth Wilson, previously of University of North London

"This is a first-class read, useful for architects and plannersas well as for students of the city. A state-of-the-art book."Richard Sennett, London School of Economics and PoliticalScience

"This is a substantial, well illustrated volume in five parts[...] The editors have certainly succeeded in their aim to 'createa multidiscplinary approach to cities' in compiling their'companion'." Stephen Royle, Queen's University Belfast