This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities
| ISBN | 1405189819 | | Pages | 784 | | ISBN13 | 9781405189811
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1516 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Published in | Chicester | | Imprint | Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) | | Series title | Blackwell Companions to Geography | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 255 | | Publication date | 04 Mar 2011 | | Width (mm) | 182 | | DEWEY | 307.76 | | Spine width (mm) | 46 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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List of Contributors. Preface (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). Acknowledgments . Part I: City Materialities: 1. Reflections on Materialities (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). 2. Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets (Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner). 3. The Liquid City of Megalopolis (John Rennie Short). 4. Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century (Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe). 5. Ethnography of an Indian City:Ahmedabad (Amrita Shah). 6. Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis (Matthew Gandy). 7. Objects and the City (Harvey Molotch). 8. Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore (Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns). 9. The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings (Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw). 10. One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon (Peter Droege). 11. The New Military Urbanism (Stephen Graham). 12. The City's New "Trinity" in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market (Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker). 13. Residence Through Revolution and Reform (Ray Forrest). Part II: City Mobilities. 14. Reflections on Mobilities (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). 15. "Nothing Gained by Overcrowding": The History and Politics of Urban Population Control (Andrew Ross). 16. Transnationality and the City (Nina Glick Schiller). 17. Migrants Making Technology Markets (Tyler Rooker). 18. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City (Saskia Sassen). 19. Nomadic Cities (David Pinder). 20. Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City (Francis Dodsworth). 21. Disease and Infection in the City (Simon Carter). 22. Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space (Daniel J. Walkowitz). 23. Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space (Brian Ladd). Part III: City Affect. 24. Reflections on Affect (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). 25. Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City (Steve Pile). 26. The Future of New York's Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11 (Max Page). 27. Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China (Stephanie Hemelryk Donald). 28. The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong (Christoph Lindner). 29. Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City (Lesley Caldwell). 30. City Life and the Senses (John Urry). 31. The Politics of Urban Intersection(Materials, Affect, Bodies (AbdouMaliq Simone). 32. The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces (Andrew Hill). Part IV: City Publics and Cultures 33. Reflections on Publics and Cultures (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). 34. Reflections on the Public Realm (Richard Sennett). 35. City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century? (Michael Keith). 36. "Just Diversity" in the City of Difference (Kurt Iveson and Ruth Fincher). 37. The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho (Judith R. Walkowitz). 38. Modernity and Gaslight(Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s (Frank Mort). 39. The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City (Rob Stone). 40. Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore (Lily Kong). 41. Spatializing Culture(Embodied Space in the City (Setha Low). 42. The Street Politics of Jackie Smith (John Paul Jones III). 43. Walking and Performing "the City": A Melbourne Chronicle (Benjamin Rossiter and Katherine Gibson). Part V: City Divisions and Differences. 44. Reflections on Division and Difference (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). 45. The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (Mike Savage). 46. Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities (Jenny Robinson and Sue Parnell). 47. Race, Class and Inequality in the So
"This collection of 65 academic essays covers everything from the role of dance in shaping cities to race and class in South Africa to the application of military techniques to city planning ... The destructive effects of global capital and neo-liberal politics are much explored. Throwing out striking insights and facts... [it offers] useful and necessary responses to significant changes in the world." The Observer "This new volume is in six sections, each introduced by an editorial overview... The individual chapters range from theoretical politics and sociology to the practicalities of maintaining high rise housing. Films and novels provide examples in many sections. Sometimes a chapter can be a surprise ... there is something new and something very familiar in each ... Geographers and sociologists will get much from this book, and there is material for architects and politicians. There is also something in the book for the ordinary city dweller." Reference Reviews "Of great interest to upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of urban studies, as well as those in urban planning, urban sociology, and urban geography ... Recommended." Choice
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