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The Blackwell City Reader

Beschreibung

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, this new edition of The Blackwell City Reader brings together a wide range of essential readings relating to the analysis and experience of cities across the globe. Selections are carefully gathered from a variety of academic disciplines ranging from architecture, sociology, and literature to cultural studies, philosophy, and even psychoanalysis to provide the most diverse perspectives and in-depth coverage of the field. The new edition incorporates major developments in the study of materialities and mobilities, two areas at the heart of many contemporary debates; it also features enhanced coverage on non-Western cities that reflect recent growth trends, especially in Asia, China, and India, making it the most international reader of its kind. The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition combines established and novel readings from a wide range of theoretical perspectives and geographical locales to provide an indispensable source for the most up-to-date thinking on cities of today and tomorrow.

Autor

Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005) and co-editor of Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and A Companion to the City (with Sophie Watson, 2000). Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of, among other publications, City Publics: The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Markets as Sites for Social Interaction: Spaces of Diversity (with David Studdert, 2006), and Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (with Peter Murphy, 1997), and co-editor (with Katherine Gibson) of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995) and Metropolis Now (1994).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 180mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 980g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189835
• ISBN-10: 1405189835
• Artikelnr.: 31707528

Rezensionen

"This new edition covers so much terrain of the urbanscholarship that it is truly a very comprehensive andinterdisciplinary reader for any course on cities and urbanstudies."
--Xiangming Chen, Trinity College

"A rich and varied collection of important articles oncities. Selections range from older classic pieces to more recentinsights, and the book provides a nice mix of European and Americanviews of cities, whilst including writings about other areas of theworld, especially China. Altogether this is an excellent andexciting collection of major writings."
--Anthony M. Orum, University of Illinois

"The second edition of The Blackwell City Reader iseven better than the first - and that was a milestone. TheReader covers the full spectrum of approaches to the cityconcisely but with real authority. As a result, it is a vitalintroduction to thinking about cities in a time when globalproblems and urban problems have become effectivelyinterchangeable."
--Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick