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Informationen zum Autor Jacques Lévy is Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)! Lausanne! Switzerland. Klappentext The city is a fresh topic for geography! a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this field? This book provides a theoretical framework within which this question can be explored. Zusammenfassung The city is a fresh topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this field? This book provides a theoretical framework within which this question can be explored. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: the city is back; Part 1 The City as a Concept: A City Is ...: Cities and signs! 1! 2! 5! Italo Calvino; The definition of the city! René Maunier; Urbanism as a way of life! Louis Wirth; The metropolis and mental life! Georg Simmel; Measuring urbanness! Jacques Lévy. The Open City and its Enemies: Genesis 11; Critias! Plato (translated Benjamin Jowett); The asphalt exodus! Jane Holtz Kay. Making the Complexity Thinkable: Of other spaces! Michel Foucault; Ville! Michel Lussault; Back to reality! Jane Jacobs; Writing the city spatially! Edward Soja; From urban form to urban relations: in search for a new kind of reflexive and critical knowledge in urban geography and city monitoring! Jean-Bernard Racine. Part 2 Urbanness! Urbanity: Public Space Beyond Urban Design: L'espace public comme lieu de l'action! Isaac Joseph; The construction of cities and urban lives (extract)! Ulf Hannerz; Towards a geography and history of the public realm! Lyn H. Lofland. Gentrification: Not So Simple: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary in geography and the problem of ghetto formation! David Harvey; Of yuppies and housing: gentrification! social restructuring! and the urban dream! Neil Smith; The blind men and the elephant: the explanation of gentrification! Chris Hammnett. Mobility: Not Only Technology: Motility: mobility as capital! Vincent Kaufmann! Manfred Max Bergman and Dominique Joye; European cities: towards a 'recreational turn'! Mathis Stock. Co-Presence: A Future! Unexpected: Recombinant architecture! William J. Mitchell; The revenge of place! William J. Mitchell. Part III The City at Stake: The City as Agency: Discourses: The great city! Le Corbusier; The concept of urb and urbanisation! Ildefons Cerdà . Urban Flights: The urban place and the non-place urban realm! Melvyn Webber; The generic city! Rem Koolhaas; The search for the future inside ourselves! Joel Garreau. New Avenues for the City: Guidelines! pp41-55! The Next American Metropolis: Ec ...
