The Blackwell City Reader

by Bridge, Gary; Watson, Sophie

• ISBN13: 9781405189835
• ISBN10: 1405189835
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities.Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Materialities: Introducing Materialities

The Great Towns

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis

An Introduction to the Information Age

Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form

The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities

The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: the Mega-City of a Poor Country

Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale

Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies

Mobilities: Introducing Mobilities

The Metropolis and Mental Life

The Practice of Everyday Life

The Arcades Project

The Global City: Introducing a Concept

Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California

Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger

Connections

Driving in the City

Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor

Division and Difference: Introducing Division and Difference

The Continuing Causes of Segregation

The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City

The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the "Purely Atomic" Individual

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference

City A/Genders

Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: the Village and Harlem

Urban Publics and Urban Cultures: Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures

The Public Realm

Death and Life of Great American Cities

China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life

Spatializing Culture: the Social Construction. of Public Space in Costa Rica

Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World

City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

Homo Palpitans: Balzac's Novels and Urban Personality

Writing the City

Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces

Urban Politics and Planning: Introducing Urban Politics and Planning

The Growth of the City

The City of Tomorrow and its Planning

The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília

Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy

Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis

How to Study Urban Political Power

Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place

New Directions in Planning Theory

Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism

China's Urban Transition: Backward into the Future

Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China

Index

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