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9780470692844

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470692844

  • ISBN10:

    0470692847

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Series Editors Preface
Preface
1 Introduction
Understanding the City
A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice and the City
Rescripting Cities with Difference
The Public City
Social Justice and the South African City
The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States
The Global and Local, the Information Age and American Metropolitan Development
Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global
Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells
Urban Analysis as Merchandising: the "LA School" and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development
Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe
State Socialism, Post-Socialism and Their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience
The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism
Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and urbanization in Est and Southeast Asia
Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East
Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore
The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture and Power
Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts and Social Movements
Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States
The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation and Urban Development
Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy and Public Space
Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies
Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites and Redevelopment in Hollywood
Index
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