A Companion to the City (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bridge, Gary; Watson, Sophie

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the City 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. * Indispensable companion for students of the City. * Multidisciplinary approach of interest across several fields. * Includes contributions from major scholars in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470692691
• Artikelnr.: 38183666

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors.
List of Illustrations.
Introduction.
Part I: Imagining Cities
1 City Imaginaries: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.
2. Three Urban Discourses: John Rennie Short.
3. Putting Cities First: Re-mapping the Origins of Urbanism: Ed Soja.
4. Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below: Anthony
Vidler.
5. The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination and Media Technologies:
James Donald.
6. Film, Representation and Naples: Lesley Caldwell.
7. The City as an Imperial Centre: Imagining London in two Caribbean
Novels: Riad Akbur.
8. Sleepwalking the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the
World of Dreams: Steve Pile.
9. Contested Images of the City. City as Locus of Status, Capitalist
Accumulation and Community - Competing Cultures in Southeast Asian
Societies: Patrick Guinness.
Part II: The Economy and the City
10. City Economies: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.
11. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities: Ash Amin.
12. Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis: Andy Merrifield.
13. Mono Centric and Poli Centric: New Urban Forms and Old Urban Paradigms:
William A. V. Clark.
14. Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York at the
Millennium: Susan S. Fainstein and Michael Harloe.
15. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City: Saskia
Sassen.
16. Turbulence and Sedimentation in the Labour Markets of Late 20th Century
Metropoles: Nick Buck and Ian Gordon.
17. Informational Cities: Bob Catterall.
18. Diaspora Chinese Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development: Chung-Tong
Wu.
19. Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist
Society: Charles Rutheiser.
20. Urban Transformation in the Capitals of the Baltic: Innovation Culture
and Finance: Philip Cooke, Erik Terk, Raite Karnite, Giedrius Blagnys.
Part III: Cities of Division and Difference
21. City Differences: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.
22. Postcolonialism, Representation and the City: Anthony King.
23. Cities of Polarisation and Marginalization: Peter Marcuse.
24. Citizenship, Multiculturalism and the European City: Alisdair Rogers.
25. Working out the Urban: Gender Relations and the City: Liz Bondi and
Hazel Christie.
26. The Sexual Geography of the City: Frank Mort.
27. From the Other Side of the Tracks: Dual Cities, Third Spaces, and the
Urban Uncanny in Contemporary Discourses of 'Race' and Class: Phil Cohen.
28. Gentrification, Post-Industrialism and Industrial and Occupational
Restructuring in Global Cities: Chris Hamnett.
29. Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul: Kevin Robins and
Asu Aksoy.
30. Value Conflicts, Identity Construction and Urban Change: Lily Kong.
Part IV: Public Cultures and Everyday Space
31. City Publics: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.
32. The Social Constitution of the Public Realm: Richard Sennett.
33. City Life and the Senses: John Urry.
34. With Child to see Any Strange Thing: Everyday Life in the City: Nigel
Thrift.
35. Walter Benjamin, Cosmopolitanism and the Narratives of City Spaces:
Michael Keith.
36. "X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive?: M. Christine Boyer.
37. Walking and Performing 'The City': A Melbourne Chronicle: Katherine
Gibson and Ben Rossiter.
38. The Street Politics of Jackie Smith: John Paul Jones III.
39. Everyday Life in Bangkok: Annette Hamilton.
40. Streetchildren in Yogyakarta: Social/ Spatial Exclusion in the Public
Spaces of the City: Harriot Beazley.
41. Cyberspace and the City: The Virtual City in Europe: Alessandro Aurigi
and Steve Graham.
Part V: Urban Politics and Urban Interventions
42. City Interventions: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.
43. Planning in Relational Space and Time: Responding to New Urban
Realities: Patsy Healey.
44. The Social Construction of Urban Policy: Allan Cochrane.
45. Urban Planning in the Late Twentieth Century: Patrick Troy.
46. Varied Legacies of Modernism in Urban Planning: Alan Mabin.
47. The Environment of the City ... or the Urbanisation of Nature: Erik
Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika.
48. Power and Urban Poltics Revisited: The Uses and Abuses of North
American Urban Political Economy: Alan Harding.
49. Social Justice and the City: Equity, Cohesion and the Politics of
Space: Fran Tonkiss.
50. Property Relations and Planning in European Urban Development: Michael
Edwards.
51. The Politics of Universal Provision of Public Housing: Chua Beng-Huat.
52. Reintegrating the Apartheid City? Urban Policy and Urban Restructuring
in Durban: Alison Todes.
Index.

Rezensionen

"...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