TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parker,Simon
TI  - Urban theory and the urban experience: encountering the city 
SN  - 0415245915
AV  - HT151 .P35 2004
U1  - 307.76 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Sociology, Urban
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Encountering the City --; 2; The Foundations of Urban Theory: Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebvre --; 3; The City Described: Social Reform and the Empirical Tradition in Classic Urban Studies --; 4; Visions of Utopia: From the Garden City to the New Urbanism --; 5; Between the Suburb and the Ghetto: Urban Studies and the Search for Community in Britain and the United States After the Second World War --; 6; Urban Fortunes: Making Sense of the Capitalist City --; 7; The Contested City: Politics, People and Power --; 8; From Pillar to Post: Culture, Representation and Difference in the Urban World --; 9; Putting the City in its Places: Urban Futures and the Future of Urban Theory
N2  - "This book will be of interest to students, scholars, practitioners and all those who wish to learn more about why the urban has become the dominant social, economic and cultural form of the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -