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A multi-disciplinary overview of key contemporary issues surrounding the excitement, contradictions, conflicts, and tensions arising from the social experience of the city and the emergent trends linked to resolving its problems. A student-focused text, it reviews the theoretical literature, examines policy implications and provides comparative case study material throughout.
List of contents
Section 1: Theorising the City
Chapter 1: Encountering the City - Multiple Perspectives on Urban Social Change - Ronan Paddison and Eugene McCann
Chapter 2: Representing and Imagining the City - Regan Koch and Alan Latham
Section 2: Experiencing the City
Chapter 3: The 'New' Middle Class, Lifestyle and the 'New' Gentrified City - Loretta Lees
Chapter 4: Being Poor in the City - Geoff De Verteuil
Chapter 5: Living with Difference : Geographies of Encounter - Gill Valentine
Chapter 6: The Everyday City of the Senses - Monica Degen
Section 3: The Liveable City
Chapter 7: Dis/Order and the Regulation of Urban Space - Steven Herbert and Tiffany Grobelski
Chapter 8: Walling the City - Gordon Macleod
Chapter 9: Health and the City - Robin Kearns and Graham Moon
Chapter 10: Cities, Nature and Sustainability - Eric Swngedouw and Ian Cook
Chapter 11: Just Cities - James de Filipis and Juan Rivero
Section 4: Reflections on Cities and Social Change
Chapter 12: The Good City - Ananya Roy
Chapter 13: Conclusions: Engaging the Urban World - Ronan Paddison and Eugene McCann
About the author
Ronan Paddison is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. His research interests focus on the political processes driving urban change and, in particular, under what conditions local participation can contribute to the making of more inclusive and democratic cities. Recent projects have included the role of community participation in the installation of public art, and the limitations to public participation in the post-political city. He is Managing Editor of Urban Studies and of Space and Polity.
Eugene McCann is Professor in the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on the ways in which policies, especially urban policies, are circulated among communities of practitioners across the global and how these ′policy mobilities′ are related to urban politics.
Summary
A multi-disciplinary overview of key contemporary issues surrounding the excitement, contradictions, conflicts, and tensions arising from the social experience of the city and the emergent trends linked to resolving its problems. A student-focused text, it reviews the theoretical literature, examines policy implications and provides comparative case study material throughout.
