The 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 (with Sophie Watson, second edition 2010). Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. 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 (with Gary Bridge, second edition 2010), among other publications. Klappentext Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexity and diversity and the processes and structures that bind them together reach out across the globe. This volume considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. Whilst considering established themes, such as urban divisions and differences, publics and cultures, politics and planning, the New Blackwell Companion to the City also addresses new debates on subjects like materiality, mobilities, and environment. Incorporating international examples, this book explores the economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues that flow from and within the modern city. 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 Tech...

List of contents

List of Contributors
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
Part I:City Materialities
 
Part II: City Mobilities
 
Part III: City Affect
 
Part IV: City Publics and Cultures
 
Part V: City Divisions and Differences
 
Part VI: City Politics and Planning
 
Index

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"This collection of 65 academic essays covers everythingfrom the role of dance in shaping cities to race and class in SouthAfrica to the application of military techniques to city planning... The destructive effects of global capital and neo-liberalpolitics are much explored. Throwing out striking insights andfacts... [it offers] useful and necessary responses to significantchanges in the world." The Observer

"This new volume is in six sections, each introduced by aneditorial overview... The individual chapters range fromtheoretical politics and sociology to the practicalities ofmaintaining high rise housing. Films and novels provide examples inmany sections. Sometimes a chapter can be a surprise ... thereis something new and something very familiar in each ...Geographers and sociologists will get much from this book, andthere is material for architects and politicians. There is alsosomething 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 thosein urban planning, urban sociology, and urban geography ...Recommended." Choice

Product details

• Authors: Gary Watson Bridge
• Assisted by: Gary Bridge (Editor), Sophie Watson (Editor)
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2011
• EAN: 9781405189811
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8981-1
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 46 mm
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography