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At a time when cities are firmly back on the agenda, this Reader brings together work by prestigious academics, literary figures, political economists, geographers, film theorists, urban planners and gender theorists in order to challenge established ways of thinking about urban life.

Develops a new framework for interpreting cities.
Includes a variety of voices from literary figures to academics.
Takes a global approach, looking at western and non-western cities.
Combines canonical texts with contemporary theories on urban life.
Can be used alongside 'A Companion to the City' (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).

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• Part I Reading City Imaginations
• Introduction
• 1 The Metropolis and Mental Life
• 2 From The City of Tomorrow and its Planning
• 3 From The Image of the City
• 4 From Dreaming the Rational City
• 5 Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City
• 6 From City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn
• 7 Literary Geography: Joyce, Woolf and the City
• 8 The Hem of Manhattan
• 9 From Bleak House
• 10 From Dubliners
• 11 From Mrs Dalloway
• 12 From The Sea Wall
• 13 From Beirut Blues
• Part II Reading Urban Economies
• Introduction
• 14 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis
• 15 An Introduction to the Information Age
• 16 From Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form
• 17 Flexibilization Through Metropolis: The Case of Postfordist Seoul, Korea
• 18 From Globalization and its Discontents
• 19 From Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
• 20 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis
• 21 From Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
• 22 Reinventing the Johannesburg Inner City
• 23 From The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
• 24 From The End of Capitalism As We Knew It: A Feminist Critique of Political Economy
• 25 From Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania
• Part III Reading Division and Difference
• Introduction
• 26 The Growth of the City
• 27 From City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States
• 28 From The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
• 29 Bastee Eviction and Housing Rights: A Case of Dhaka, Bangladesh
• 30 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City
• 31 City A/genders
• 32 Bodies-Cities
• 33 From Geographies of Disability
• 34 From Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
• 35 From City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
• Part IV Reading City Publics
• Introduction
• 36 From The Fall of Public Man
• 37 From The Death and Life of American Cities
• 38 Spatializing Culture: the Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica
• 39 The Right to the City
• 40 From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Prison
• 41 From The Practice of Everyday Life
• 42 From The Arcades Project
• 43 From Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics
• 44 From City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
• 45 From The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women
• 46 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference
• 47 The Overexposed City
• Part V Reading Urban Interventions
• Introduction
• 48 From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism
• 49 From Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place
• 50 From C

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Gary Bridge is Senior Lecturer in the School of Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He is the co-editor of A Companion to the City (Blackwell Publishing, 2000).

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997) and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (Blackwell Publishing, 1995), Metropolis Now (1994) and A Companion to the City (Blackwell Publishing 2000), among other publications.