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The work of 40 innovative and influential thinkers are profiled in this text to provide students with an engaging introduction to and intellectual survey of those who are and have been instrumental in the way we interact with cities
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Introduction: How to think about cities - Regan Koch and Alan Latham
01 Janet Abu-Lughod - Joseph Heathcott
02 Ash Amin - Junjia Ye
03 Elijah Anderson - Michael DeLand
04 Michael Batty - Helen Couclelis
05 Brian Berry - Elvin Wyly
06 M. Christine Boyer - Agustín Cócola Gant
07 Neil Brenner - Tauri Tuvikene
08 Teresa Caldeira - Sonia Roitman
09 Manuel Castells - Phil Hubbard
10 Jason Corburn - Andrew Barnfield
11 Mike Davis - Melanie Lombard
12 Bent Flyvbjerg - Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen
13 Matthew Gandy - Andrew Karvonen
14 Néstor García Canclini - Angela Giglia
15 Jan Gehl - Annie Matan
16 Edward Glaeser - Jurgen Essletzbichler
17 Stephen Graham - Kurt Iveson
18 David Harvey - Louis Moreno
19 Dolores Hayden - Leslie Kern
20 Jane Jacobs - Oli Mould
21 Jane M. Jacobs - Ryan Centner
22 Natalie Jeremijenko - Clemens Driessen
23 Rem Koolhaas - Davide Ponzini
24 Henri Lefebvre - David Pinder
25 Kevin Lynch - Quentin Stevens
26 William J. Mitchell - David Beer
27 Harvey Molotch - Eugene McCann
28 Enrique Peñalosa - Juan Pablo Galvis
29 Jennifer Robinson - Rajyashree Reddy
30 Ananya Roy - Hanna Hilbrandt
31 Saskia Sassen - Michele Acuto
32 Richard Sennett - Alan Latham
33 Karen C. Seto - Michail Fragkias
34 Abdumaliq Simone - Colin McFarlane
35 Neil Smith - Tom Slater
36 Michael Storper - Alan Latham
37 Mariana Valverde - Regan Koch
38 Loïc Wacquant - Tom Slater
39 Fulong Wu - I-Chun Catherine Chang
40 Sharon Zukin - Mark Jayne
About the author
Regan Koch is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London. His interests are in matters of public space, urban sociality and collective culture, and the representation and imagination of urban life. Working between London and various cities across the US, Regan′s research has focused on exploring novel food trends, social entrepreneurship, licensing laws and government regulations, and changing social norms related to how we live together in cities. His work has been published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Urban Studies, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and in several edited collections.Alan Latham is a Professor of Human Geography at University College London. His research focuses on sociality, social infrastructure, and the public life of cities more generally. He has undertaken research in Germany, America, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Sweden on cities as diverse as Auckland, London, New York, Eugene (OR), Malmo, Berlin, and Champaign-Urbana. Before moving to UCL he held academic positions at the University of Southampton, and the University of Auckland.
Summary
The work of 40 innovative and influential thinkers are profiled in this text to provide students with an engaging introduction to and intellectual survey of those who are and have been instrumental in the way we interact with cities
