The New Blackwell Companion to the City provides a guide tothe major themes in urban studies. Building on well establisheddebates in the field, this volume provides students and scholarswith a contemporary update on urban thinking. This book considers the state of the city and contemporaryurbanisation from a range of intellectual and internationalperspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds onwell established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural,environmental and political…mehr
The New Blackwell Companion to the City provides a guide tothe major themes in urban studies. Building on well establisheddebates in the field, this volume provides students and scholarswith a contemporary update on urban thinking.This book considers the state of the city and contemporaryurbanisation from a range of intellectual and internationalperspectives.
The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds onwell established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural,environmental and political issues more broadly Includes contributions from non Western perspectives andcities
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 The Blackwell City Reader (with Sophie Watson, second edition 2010). Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997) and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995), Metropolis Now (1994), and The Blackwell City Reader (with Gary Bridge, second edition 2010), among other publications.
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List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Part I:City Materialities Part II: City Mobilities Part III: City Affect Part IV: City Publics and Cultures Part V: City Divisions and Differences Part VI: City Politics and Planning Index
List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Part I:City Materialities Part II: City Mobilities Part III: City Affect Part IV: City Publics and Cultures Part V: City Divisions and Differences Part VI: City Politics and Planning Index
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