The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory

by Susser, Ida

• ISBN13: 9780631219330
• ISBN10: 0631219331
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his theoretical methods.

Author Biography

Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She was the founding President of the Society for the Anthropology of North America. She is the author of Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Community (1982), co-author of Medical Anthropology and the World System (1997), and co-editor, with Thomas C. Patterson, of Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 2000).

Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed in 1979. In the 1970s he directed the seminar on urban sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has also been a visiting professor of urban planning at the Universidad Cat=lica de Chile, Ecole d'Architecture de l'UniversitT de GenFve, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Southern California. Among other awards, he has received the Silver Medal in Urbanism from the City of Madrid in 1999 and the 2001 Kevin Lynch Award in Urban Design and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1998 he accepted the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association for his life-long contribution to urban sociology.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Manuel Castells: Conceptualizing the City in the Information Age	1	(12)
Ida Susser
Part I A Theoretical Approach to the City in Advanced Capitalism	13	(58)
Urbanization (1972)	15	(19)
Epistemological Introduction	15	(5)
The Historical Process of Urbanization	20	(1)
The Urban Phenomenon	21	(13)
The Urban Ideology (1972)	34	(37)
The Myth of Urban Culture	35	(9)
From Urban Society to Urban Revolution	44	(9)
The Urban Sub-cultures	53	(18)
Part II Social Movements and Urban Culture	71	(182)
Immigrant Workers and Class Struggles in Advanced Capitalism: The Western European Experience (1975)	73	(34)
Collective Consumption and Urban Contradictions in Advanced Capitalism (1978)	107	(23)
City and Culture: The San Francisco Experience (1983)	130	(123)
San Francisco: The Social Basis of Urban Quality	130	(9)
Urban Poverty, Ethnic Minorities and Community Organization: The Experience of Neighbourhood Mobilization in San Francisco's Mission District	139	(41)
Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation and Urban Structure: The Gay Community in San Francisco	180	(51)
Methodological Appendix	231	(22)
Part III The City in the Information Age	253	(137)
The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism (1989)	255	(30)
Information Technology, the Restructuring of Capital-Labor Relationships, and the Rise of the Dual City (1989)	285	(29)
The Space of Flows (1996, 2nd edn 2000)	314	(53)
The Culture of Cities in the Information Age (1999)	367	(23)
Conclusion: Urban Sociology in the Twenty-first Century (2000)	390	(17)
Bibliography of Urban and Regional Studies by Manuel Castells, 1967-2000	407	(5)
Index	412