The Blackwell City Reader

2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8982-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. - Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates
- The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India
- Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies
- Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bridge, Gary

Watson, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

Part I Materialities 3  Introducing Materialities 5

1 The Great Towns 11  Friedrich Engels

2 Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17  William Cronon

3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32
David Harvey

4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40
Manuel Castells

5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49
Allen J. Scott

6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60
Ash Amin

7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72
Sujata Patel

8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79
Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen

9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86
Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack

Part II Mobilities 95  Introducing Mobilities 97

10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103
Georg Simmel

11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111
Michel de Certeau

12 The Arcades Project 119
Walter Benjamin

13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126
Saskia Sassen

14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133
Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero

15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138
Arjun Appadurai

16 Connections 144
John Urry

17 Driving in the City 152
Nigel Thrift

18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159
Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu

Part III Division and Difference 169  Introducing Division and Difference 171

19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177
Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton

20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186
William Julius Wilson

21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193
Mike Davis

22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201
Neil Smith

23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the “Purely Atomic” Individual 211
Don Mitchell

24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221
Michel Foucault

25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228
Iris Marion Young

26 City A/Genders 237
Sophie Watson

27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243
George Chauncey

Part IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253  Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 255

28 The Public Realm 261
Richard Sennett

29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273
Jane Jacobs

30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278
Nancy N. Chen

31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284
Setha M. Low

32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293
Sharon Zukin

33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303
Judith R. Walkowitz

34 Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality 311
Franco Moretti

35 Writing the City 317
Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley

36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323
James Donald

Part V Urban Politics and Planning 331  Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 333

37 The Growth of the City 339
Ernest W. Burgess

38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345
Le Corbusier

39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília 355
James Holston

40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365
Anthony D. King

41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374
Edward W. Soja

42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382
John Hull Mollenkopf

43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391
John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch

44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402
Susan S. Fainstein

45 Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” 411
Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore

46 China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419
John Friedmann

47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428
Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang

Index 433

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005) and co-editor of Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and A Companion to the City (with Sophie Watson, 2000).

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of, among other publications, City Publics: The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Markets as Sites for Social Interaction: Spaces of Diversity (with David Studdert, 2006), and Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (with Peter Murphy, 1997), and co-editor (with Katherine Gibson) of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995) and Metropolis Now (1994).