Reason in the City of Difference - Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism

Informationen zum Autor Gary Bridge is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies University of Bristol. Recent publications include A Companion to the City (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell City Reader (2002), both co-edited with Sophie Watson. Zusammenfassung This book re-establishes a notion of conscious agency in our understanding of urban life. Using empirical examples and drawing on pragmatist ideas of 'experience' and rationality, this text offers a new, alternative reading of the city. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Reason in the City of Difference 2. On the Body 3. On the Street 4. In the Community 5. In the Public Realm 6. At Home and Work in the Urban Economy 7. In City Hall 8. Cosmopolitan Reason and the Global City

Product details

• Authors: Gary Bridge, Bridge Gary
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415287678
• ISBN: 978-0-415-28767-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Questioning Cities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography