A Companion to the City

by Bridge, Gary; Watson, Sophie

• ISBN13: 9780631235781
• ISBN10: 0631235787
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Companion to the City provides an authoritative view of the major issues in the field of urban studies. It outlines established approaches to understanding the urban condition and presents an introduction to contemporary thinking and debate. The Companion is multidisciplinary and includes contributions from significant writers from a diversity of disciplines, locations, and traditions. This book provides the reader with not only a definition of the field of urban studies, but also an indispensable overview of all the key debates, controversies, and questions from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
List of Illustrations	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
Part I Imagining Cities	5	(94)
City Imaginaries	7	(11)
Gary Bridge
Sophie Watson
Three Urban Discourses	18	(8)
John Rennie Short
Putting Cities First: Remapping the Origins of Urbanism	26	(9)
Edward W. Soja
Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below	35	(11)
Anthony Vidler
The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination, and Media Technologies	46	(9)
James Donald
Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City	55	(10)
Lesley Caldwell
The City as Imperial Centre: Imagining London in Two Caribbean Novels	65	(10)
Riad Akbur
Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams	75	(12)
Steve Pile
Contested Imaginings of the City: City as Locus of Status, Capitalist Accumulation, and Community: Competing Cultures of Southeast Asian Societies	87	(12)
Patrick Guinness
Part II The Economy and the City	99	(150)
City Economies	101	(14)
Gary Bridge
Sophie Watson
The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities	115	(15)
Ash Amin
Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis	130	(11)
Andy Merrifield
Monocentric to Policentric: New Urban Forms and Old Paradigms	141	(14)
William A. V. Clark
Ups and Downs in the Gobal City: London and New York at the Millennium	155	(13)
Susan S. Fainstein
Michael Narloe
Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City	168	(13)
Saskia Sassen
Turbulence and Sedimentation in the Labor Markets of Late Twentieth-Century Metropoles	181	(11)
Nick Buck
Ian Gordon
Informational Cities: Beyond Dualism and Toward Reconstruction	192	(15)
Bob Catterall
Diaspora Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development	207	(17)
Chung Tong Wu
Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City	224	(13)
Charles Rutheiser
Urban Transformation in the Capitals of the Baltic States: Innovation, Culture and Finance	237	(12)
Philip Cooke
Erik Terk
Raite Karnite
Giedrius Blagnys
Part III Cities of Division and Difference	249	(118)
City Differences	251	(10)
Gary Bridge
Sophie Watson
Postcolonialism, Representation, and the City	261	(9)
Anthony D. King
Cities in Quarters	270	(12)
Peter Marcuse
Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and the European City	282	(10)
Alisdair Rogers
Working out the Urban: Gender Relations and the City	292	(15)
Liz Bondi
Hazel Christie
The Sexual Geography of the City	307	(9)
Frank Mort
From the Other Side of the Tracks: Dual Cities, Third Spaces, and the Urban Uncanny in Contemporary Discourses of ``Race'' and Class	316	(15)
Phil Cohen
Gentrification, Postindustrialism, and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities	331	(11)
Chris Hamnett
Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul	342	(12)
Kevin Robins
Asu Aksoy
Value Conflicts, Identity Construction, and Urban Change	354	(13)
Lily L. Kong
Part IV Public Cultures and Everyday Space	367	(136)
City Publics	369	(11)
Gary Bridge
Sophie Watson
Reflections on the Public Realm	380	(8)
Richard Sennett
City Life and the Senses	388	(10)
John Urry
With Child to See Any Strange Thing: Everyday Life in the City	398	(12)
Nigel J. Thrift
Walter Benjamin, Urban Studies, and the Narratives of City Life	410	(20)
Michael Keith
``X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive?''	430	(7)
M. Christine Boyer
Walking and Performing ``the City'': A Melbourne Chronicle	437	(11)
Benjamin Rossiter
Katherine Gibson
The Street Politics of Jackie Smith	448	(12)
John Paul Jones III
Wonderful, Terrible: Everyday Life in Bangkok	460	(12)
Annette Hamilton
Street Boys in Yogyakarta: Social and Spatial Exclusion in the Public Spaces of the City	472	(17)
Harriot Beazley
Cyberspace and the City: The ``Virtual City'' in Europe	489	(14)
Alessandro Aurigi
Stephen Graham
Part V Urban Politics and Urban Interventions	503	(127)
City Interventions	505	(12)
Gary Bridge
Sophie Watson
Planning in Relational Space and Time: Responding to New Urban Realities	517	(14)
Patsy Healey
The Social Construction of Urban Policy	531	(12)
Allan D. Cochrane
Urban Planning in the Late Twentieth Century	543	(12)
Patrick Troy
Varied Legacies of Modernism in Urban Planning	555	(12)
Alan Mabin
The Environment of the City...or the Urbanization of Nature	567	(14)
Erik Swyngedouw
Maria Kailza
Power and Urban Politics Revisited: The Uses and Abuses of North American Urban Political Economy	581	(10)
Alan Harding
Social Justice and the City: Equity, Cohesion and the Politics of Space	591	(8)
Fran Tonkiss
Property Markets and the Production of Inequality	599	(10)
Michael Edwards
The Politics of Universal Provision of Public Housing	609	(8)
Chua Beng Huat
Reintegrating the Apartheid City? Urban Policy and Urban Restructuring in Durban	617	(13)
Alison Todes
Index	630