Contributor
Bridge, Gary.
Imprint:Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.
Descriptionxiv, 640 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Note:Part I. IMAGINING CITIES: 1. City imaginaries / Gary Bridge, Sohie Watson -- 2. Three uban discourses / John Rennie Short -- 3. Putting cities first: remapping the origins of urbanism / Edward W. Soji -- 4. Photourbanism: planning the city from above and from below / Anthony Vidler -- 5. The immaterial city: representation, imagination, and media technologies / James Donald -- 6. Imagining Naples: the senses of the city / Lesley Caldwell -- 7. The city as imperial centre: imagining London in two Caribbean novels / Riad Akbur -- 8. Sleepwalking in the modern city: Walter Benjamin and Signumd Freud in the world of dreams / Steve Pile -- 9. Contested imaginings of the city: city as locus of station, capitalist accumulation, and community: competing cultures of southeast Asian societies / Patrick Guinness -- Part II. THE ECONOMY AND THE CITY: 10. City economies / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 11. The economic base of contemporary cities / Ash Amin -- Flexible Marxism and the metropolis / Andy Merrifield -- 13. Monocentric to policentric: new urban forms and old paradigms / William A.V. Clark -- 14. Ups and downs in the global city: London and New York at the millennium / Susan S. Fainstein, Michael Harloe -- 15. Analytic borderlands: economy and culture in the global city / Saskia Sassen -- 16. Turbulence and sedimentation in the labor markets of late 20th-century metropoles / Nick Buck, Ian Gordon -- 17. Informational cities: beyond dualism and toward reconstruction / Bob Catterall -- 18. Diaspora capital and Asia Pacific urban development / Chung Tong Wu -- 19. Capitalizing on Havana: the return of the repressed in a late socialist city / Charles Rutheiser -- 20. Urban transformation in the capitals of the Baltic states: innovation, culture and finance / Philip Cooke, Erik Terk, Raite Karnite, Giedrius Blagnys -- Part III. CITIES OF DIVISION AND DIFFERENCE: 21. City differences / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 22. Postcolonialism, representation, and the city / Anthony D. King -- 23. Cities in quarters / Peter Marcuse -- 24. Citizenship, multiculturalism, and the European city / Alisdair Rogers -- 25. Working out the urban: gender relations and the city / Liz Bondi, Hazel Christie -- 26. The sexual geography of the city / Frank Mort -- 27. From the other side of the tracks: dual cities, third spaces, and the urban uncanny in contemporary discoures of "race" and class / Phil Cohen -- 28. Gentrification, postindustrialism, and industrial and occupational restructuring in global cities / Chris Hamnett -- 29. Worlds apart and together: trial by space in Istanbul / Kevin Robins, Asu Aksoy -- 30. Value conflicts, identity construction, and urban change / Lily L. Kong -- Part IV. PUBLIC CULTURES AND EVERYDAY SPACE: 31. City publics / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 32. Reflections on the public realm / Richard Sennett --- 33. City life and the senses / John Urry -- 34. With child to see any strange thing: everyday life in the city / Nigel J. Thrift -- 35. Walter Benjamin, urban studies, and the narratives of city life / Michael Keith -- 36. "X marks the spot: Times Square dead or alive?" / M. Christine Boyer -- 37. Walking and performing "the city": a Melbourne chronicle / Benjamin Rossiter, Katherine Gibson -- 38. The street politics of Jackie Smith / John Paul Jones III -- 39. Wonderful, terrible: everyday life in Bangkok / Annette Hamilton -- 40. Street boys in Yogyakarta: social and spatial exclusion in the public spaces of the city / Harriot Beazley -- 41. Cyberspace and the city: the "virtual city" in Europe / Allessandro Aurigi, Stephen Graham -- Part V. URBAN POLITICS AND URBAN INTERVENTIONS: 42. City interventions / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 43. Planning in relational space and time: responding to new urban realities / Patsy Healey -- 44. The social construction of urban policy / Allan D. Cochrane -- 45. Urban planning in the late 20th century / Patrick Troy -- 46. Varied legacies of modernism in urban planning / Alan Mabin -- 47. The environment of the city ... of the urbanization of nature / Erik Swyngedouw, Maria Kaika -- 48. Power and urban politics revisited: the uses and abuses of North American urban political economy / Alan Hardin -- 49. Social justice and the city: equity, cohesion and the politics of space / Fran Tonkiss -- 50. Property markets and the production of inequality / Michael Edwards -- 41. The politics of universal provision of public housing / Chua Beng Huat -- 52. Reintegrating the apartheid city: urban policy and urban restructuring in Durban / Alison Todes.
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