Understanding the city : contemporary and future perspectives /
Understanding the city : contemporary and future perspectives /
edited by John Eade and Christopher Mele.
- xxi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Studies in urban and social change .
- Studies in urban and social change. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Understanding the City / A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City. Rescripting Cities with Difference / The Public City / Social Justice and the South African City / The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States / The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development. Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global / Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells / Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The "LA School" and the Understanding the Metropolitan Development / Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe. State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience / The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond / Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia / Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East. Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore / The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power / Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements / Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States. The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development / Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space / Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies / Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood / 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. Pt. I. 1. Pt. II. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8. Pt. IV. 9. 10. 11. Pt. V. 12. 13. 14. Pt. VI. 15. 16. 17. 18.
0631224068 9780631224068 0631224076 9780631224075
2002066641
Cities and towns
Sociology, Urban
HT119 / .U53 2002
307.76
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Understanding the City / A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City. Rescripting Cities with Difference / The Public City / Social Justice and the South African City / The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States / The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development. Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global / Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells / Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The "LA School" and the Understanding the Metropolitan Development / Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe. State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience / The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond / Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia / Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East. Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore / The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power / Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements / Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States. The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development / Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space / Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies / Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood / 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. Pt. I. 1. Pt. II. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8. Pt. IV. 9. 10. 11. Pt. V. 12. 13. 14. Pt. VI. 15. 16. 17. 18.
0631224068 9780631224068 0631224076 9780631224075
2002066641
Cities and towns
Sociology, Urban
HT119 / .U53 2002
307.76