Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities

by Hall,Tim; Hall,Tim

• ISBN13: 9780415266932
• ISBN10: 0415266939
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century. Specific areas of research include homeless people's organizations, restoration ecology, post-industrial urban landscapes, cyberspace as a site (or not) of community, post-industrial economics, tourism, cultural planning and the relation of urbanization and bio-physics.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
General Introduction	1	(9)
I FRAMING
Introduction	10	(3)
Where the Thinking Stops, Time Crystallises...	13	(14)
Jane Rendell
Differencing the City: Urban Identities and the Spatial Imagination	27	(17)
Dorothy Rowe
Strange Days	44	(21)
Malcolm Miles
II MOVING
Introduction	62	(3)
Resistance or Security? Young People and the 'Appropriation' of Urban, Cultural and Consumer Space	65	(11)
Steven Miles
Prestige Projects, City Centre Restructuring and Social Exclusion: Taking the Long-Term View	76	(16)
Patrick Loftman
Brendan Nevin
Car-ceral Cities: Social Geographies of Everyday Urban Mobility	92	(19)
Tim Hall
III PRACTISING
Introduction	108	(3)
What is Radical Architecture?	111	(11)
Iain Borden
Public Art: A Renewable Resource	122	(12)
Patricia Phillips
Landscape, Ecology, Art and Change	134	(15)
Tim Collins
Reiko Goto
IV SHAPING
Introduction	146	(3)
Gentrification and Social Exclusion: Spatial Policing and Homeless Activist Responses in the San Francisco Bay Area	149	(18)
Anne R. Roschelle
Talmadge Wright
Shaping the Cultural Landscape: Local Regeneration Effects	167	(15)
Graeme Evans
Jo Foord
Turbulent Prospects: Sustaining Urbanism on a Dynamic Planet	182	(13)
Nigel Clark
Conclusion	195	(6)
Bibliography	201	(22)
Index	223