Understanding the City (eBook, ePUB)
Contemporary and Future Perspectives
Redaktion: Eade, John; Mele, Christopher
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This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century. Das E-Book Understanding the City wird angeboten von John Wiley & Sons und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: Anthropologie, Anthropology, Geographie, Geography, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie, Soziologie, Stadtgeographie, Stadtsoziologie, Urban Geography, Urban Sociology
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- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 448
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2011
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781444399325
- Artikelnr.: 38308592
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 448
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2011
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781444399325
- Artikelnr.: 38308592
List of Tables ix
List of Contributors x
Series Editors' Preface xv
Preface xvii
Part I: Introduction 1
1 Understanding the City 3
John Eade and Christopher Mele
Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City 25
2 Rescripting Cities with Difference 27
Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs, and Kay Anderson
3 The Public City 49
Sophie Watson
4 Social Justice and the South African City 66
David M. Smith
5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in
France and the United States 82
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American
Metropolitan Development 107
6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global 109
Michael Peter Smith
7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of
Manuel Castells 131
Peter Marcuse
8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The "LA School" and the Understanding of
Metropolitan Development 159
Mark Gottdiener
Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe 181
9 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the
Central and Eastern European Experience 183
Chris Pickvance
10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond 204
Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan
11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in
East and Southeast Asia 222
J. S. Eades
Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East 245
12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian
Metropolis of Bangalore 247
Smriti Srinivas
13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power 278
Shlomo Hasson
14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive
Shifts, and Social Movements 305
Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts
Part VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States 337
15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation,
Speculation, and Urban Development 339
Michael Indergaard
16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and
Public Space 363
Alexander J. Reichl
17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate
Elites in Urban Studies 379
Leonard Nevarez
18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in
Hollywood 397
Jan Lin
Index 419
List of Tables ix
List of Contributors x
Series Editors' Preface xv
Preface xvii
Part I: Introduction 1
1 Understanding the City 3
John Eade and Christopher Mele
Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City 25
2 Rescripting Cities with Difference 27
Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs, and Kay Anderson
3 The Public City 49
Sophie Watson
4 Social Justice and the South African City 66
David M. Smith
5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in
France and the United States 82
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American
Metropolitan Development 107
6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global 109
Michael Peter Smith
7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of
Manuel Castells 131
Peter Marcuse
8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The "LA School" and the Understanding of
Metropolitan Development 159
Mark Gottdiener
Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe 181
9 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the
Central and Eastern European Experience 183
Chris Pickvance
10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond 204
Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan
11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in
East and Southeast Asia 222
J. S. Eades
Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East 245
12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian
Metropolis of Bangalore 247
Smriti Srinivas
13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power 278
Shlomo Hasson
14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive
Shifts, and Social Movements 305
Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts
Part VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States 337
15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation,
Speculation, and Urban Development 339
Michael Indergaard
16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and
Public Space 363
Alexander J. Reichl
17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate
Elites in Urban Studies 379
Leonard Nevarez
18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in
Hollywood 397
Jan Lin
Index 419