Brantz / Disko / Wagner-Kyora Thick Space

Approaches to Metropolitanism
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2043-0
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Urban Studies

Could the concepts of 'metropolitanism' and 'thick space' aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brantz, Dorothee

Disko, Sasha

Wagner-Kyora, Georg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothee Brantz is a professor of urban environmental history and the director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include urban environmental history, the history of war and peace, and the different temporalities of the urban.
Sasha Disko is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).
Georg Wagner-Kyora is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).