New Blackwell Companion to the City

Informationen zum Autor Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005), and co-editor of Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and The Blackwell City Reader, second edition (with Sophie Watson, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth? (with Tim Butler and Loretta Lees, 2012).  Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. She is the author of City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997), and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995), Metropolis Now (1994), and The Blackwell City Reader, second edition (with Gary Bridge, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), among other publications. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung The New Blackwell Companion to the City provides a guide to the major themes in urban studies. Building on well established debates in the field, this volume provides students and scholars with a contemporary update on urban thinking. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors x Preface xiii Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson Acknowledgments xv Part I City Materialities 1 1 Reflections on Materialities 3 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 15 Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner 3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis 26 John Rennie Short 4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century 38 Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe 5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 48 Amrita Shah 6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis 57 Matthew Gandy 7 Objects and the City 66 Harvey Molotch 8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore 79 Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns 9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings 96 Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw 10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 108 Peter Droege 11 The New Military Urbanism 121 Stephen Graham 12 The City's New "Trinity" in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 134 Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker 13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform 142 Ray Forrest Part II City Mobilities 155 14 Reflections on Mobilities 157 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 15 "Nothing Gained by Overcrowding": The History and Politics of Urban Population Control 169 Andrew Ross 16 Transnationality and the City 179 Nina Glick Schiller 17 Migrants Making Technology Markets 193 Tyler Rooker 18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City 210 Saskia Sassen 19 Nomadic Cities 221 David Pinder 20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City 235 Francis Dodsworth 21...

List of contents

List of Contributors x
 
Preface xiii
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
 
Acknowledgments xv
 
Part I City Materialities 1
 
1 Reflections on Materialities 3
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
 
2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 15
Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner
 
3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis 26
John Rennie Short
 
4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century 38
Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe
 
5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 48
Amrita Shah
 
6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis 57
Matthew Gandy
 
7 Objects and the City 66
Harvey Molotch
 
8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore 79
Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns
 
9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings 96
Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw
 
10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 108
Peter Droege
 
11 The New Military Urbanism 121
Stephen Graham
 
12 The City's New "Trinity" in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 134
Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker
 
13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform 142
Ray Forrest
 
Part II City Mobilities 155
 
14 Reflections on Mobilities 157
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
 
15 "Nothing Gained by Overcrowding": The History and Politics of Urban Population Control 169
Andrew Ross
 
16 Transnationality and the City 179
Nina Glick Schiller
 
17 Migrants Making Technology Markets 193
Tyler Rooker
 
18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City 210
Saskia Sassen
 
19 Nomadic Cities 221
David Pinder
 
20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City 235
Francis Dodsworth
 
21 Disease and Infection in the City 245
Simon Carter
 
22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space 255
Daniel J. Walkowitz
 
23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space 265
Brian Ladd
 
Part III City Affect 275
 
24 Reflections on Affect 277
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
 
25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City 288
Steve Pile
 
26 The Future of New York's Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11 304
Max Page
 
27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China 317
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
 
28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong 327
Christoph Lindner
 
29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City 337
Lesley Caldwell
 
30 City Life and the Senses 347
John Urry
 
31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies 357
AbdouMaliq Simone
 
32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces 367
Andrew Hill
 
Part IV City Publics and Cultures 377
 
33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures 379
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
 
34 Reflections on the Public Realm 390
Richard Sennett
 
35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century? 398
Michael Keith
 
36 "Just Diversity" in the City of Difference 407
Kurt Iveson and Ruth Fincher
 
37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho 419
Judith R. Walkowitz
 
38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s 431
Frank Mort
 
39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City 442
Rob Stone
 
40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global C

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"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

Product details

• Authors: G Bridge, Gary Bridge, Gary (University of Bristol Bridge, Gary Watson Bridge, Sophie Watson, Sophie (The Open University Watson
• Assisted by: Gar Bridge (Editor), Gary Bridge (Editor), Bridge Gary (Editor), Watson (Editor), Watson (Editor), Sophie Watson (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.08.2013
• EAN: 9781118655306
• ISBN: 978-1-118-65530-6
• No. of pages: 784
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Geography; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography; Blackwell Companions to Geography; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Geographie, Sociology, Geography, Stadtsoziologie, Urban Studies, Stadtforschung, Stadtgeographie, Urban Sociology, Urban geography, Allg. Stadtforschung