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Title

The Blackwell city reader / edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Bridge, Gary.
• Watson, Sophie.

Description

xiv, 579 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell readers in geography

Uniform Title

Blackwell readers in geography.

Subject

• Cities and towns > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Reading City Imaginations. 1. The Metropolis and Mental Life / Georg Simmel. 2. From The City of Tomorrow and its Planning / Le Corbusier. 3. From The Image of the City / Kevin Lynch. 4. From Dreaming the Rational City / M. Christine Boyer. 5. Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City / Antony Vidler. 6. From City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn / W. J. Mitchell. 7. Literary Geography: Joyce, Woolf and the City / Jeri Johnson. 8. The Hem of Manhattan / Djuna Barnes. 9. From Bleak House / Charles Dickens. 10. From Dubliners / James Joyce. 11. From Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf. 12. From The Sea Wall / Marguerite Duras. 13. From Beirut Blues / Hanan al-Shaykh -- Pt. II. Reading Urban Economies. 14. The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis / David Harvey. 15. An Introduction to the Information Age / Manuel Castells. 16. From Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form / Allen J. Scott.
• 17. Flexibilization Through Metropolis: The Case of Postfordist Seoul, Korea / Myung-Rae Cho. 18. From Globalization and its Discontents / Saskia Sassen. 19. From Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West / William Cronon. 20. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis / Edward W. Soja. 21. From Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World / Sharon Zukin. 22. Reinventing the Johannesburg Inner City / Lindsay Bremner. 23. From The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project / Susan Buck-Morss. 24. From The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy / J. K. Gibson-Graham. 25. From Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania / Aili Mari Tripp -- Pt. III. Reading Division and Difference. 26. The Growth of the City / Ernest W. Burgess. 27. From City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the US / Ira Katznelson.
• 28. From The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy / William Julius Wilson. 29. Bastee Eviction and Housing Rights: A Case of Dhaka, Bangladesh / Mohammed Mahbubur Rahman. 30. After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City / Neil Smith. 31. City A/genders / Sophie Watson. 32. Bodies-Cities / Elizabeth Grosz. 33. From Geographies of Disability / Brendan Gleeson. 34. From Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization / Richard Sennett. 35. From City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles / Mike Davis -- Pt. IV. Reading City Publics. 36. From The Fall of Public Man / Richard Sennett. 37. From The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane M. Jacobs. 38. Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica / Setha M. Low. 39. The Right to the City / Henri Lefebvre. 40. From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault.
• 41. From The Practice of Everyday Life / Michel de Certeau. 42. From The Arcades Project / Walter Benjamin. 43. From Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics / Rosalyn Deutsche. 44. From City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London / Judith R. Walkowitz. 45. From The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women / Elizabeth Wilson. 46. The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference / Iris Marion Young. 47. The Overexposed City / Paul Virilio -- Pt. V. Reading Urban Interventions. 48. From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism / David Harvey. 49. From Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place / John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch. 50. From Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century / Peter Hall. 51. From Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies / Patsy Healey.
• 52. Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of US Planning / Robert Beauregard. 53. From The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia / James Holston. 54. From Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-economy / Anthony D. King. 55. The Dark Side of Modernism: Planning as Control of an Ethnic Minority / Oren Yiftachel. 56. From Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City / Jane M. Jacobs. 57. Mega-cities and the Urban Future: A Model for Replicating Best Practices / Akhtar A. Badshah and Janice E. Perlman.

ISBN

• 0631225137
• 0631225145 (pb)

LCCN

2002022630

OCLC

• ocm49249145
• SCSB-9428865

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries