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Understanding the City
Contemporary and Future Perspectives
John Eade (Edited by), J Eade (Author), Christopher Mele (Edited by)
9780631224068, Wiley
Hardback, published 3 May 2002
448 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.7 cm, 0.748 kg
"Many anthologies on the city exist, but only a few contain both cutting-edge theoretical essays and rich empirical studies. The latter focus on cities outside the Western urban canon and will make Understanding the City even more attractive to urban scholars." Professor R. Beauregard, New School University Understanding the city is an engaging read for those grappling with new theoretical and conceptual questions about how cities function.....the essays in this book provide an excellent foundation for new levels of discourse on urban enviroments and city life." Area
This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.
List of Illustrations viii List of Tables ix List of Contributors x Series Editors’ Preface xv Preface xvii Part I: Introduction 1 1 Understanding the City 3 Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City 25 2 Rescripting Cities with Difference 27 3 The Public City 49 4 Social Justice and the South African City 66 5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States 82 Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development 107 6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global 109 7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 131 8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development 159 Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe 181 9 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience 183 10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond 204 11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia 222 Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East 245 12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore 247 13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power 278 14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements 305 Part VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States 337 15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development 339 16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space 363 17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies 379 18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood 397 Index 419
John Eade and Christopher Mele
Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs, and Kay Anderson
Sophie Watson
David M. Smith
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Michael Peter Smith
Peter Marcuse
Mark Gottdiener
Chris Pickvance
Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan
J. S. Eades
Smriti Srinivas
Shlomo Hasson
Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts
Michael Indergaard
Alexander J. Reichl
Leonard Nevarez
Jan Lin
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
