TY - BOOK AU - Bridge,Gary AU - Watson,Sophie TI - The Blackwell City Reader T2 - Blackwell readers in geography SN - 0631225137 (hbk) AV - HT111 B53 2002 U1 - 307.76 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub., KW - Cities and towns KW - Local KW - Cross-cultural studies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction xiii -- Part I : Reading City Imaginations 1 -- Introduction 1 -- 1 The Metropolis and Mental life Georg Simmel 11 -- 2 from The City of the Tomorrow and its Planning Le Corbusier 20 -- 3 from The Image of the City Kevin Lynch 30 -- 4 from Dreaming the Rational City M. Christine Boyer 39 -- 5 Bodies in Space / Subjects in the City Antony Vidler 46 -- 6 from City of Bits: Space, place, and the Infobahn W.J. Mitchell 52 -- 7 Literary Geography: Joyce, Woolf and the City Jeri Johnson 60 -- 8 The Hem of Manhattan Djuna Barnes 71 -- 9 from Bleak House Charles Dickens 76 -- 10 from Dubliners James Joyce 80 -- 11 from Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 86 -- 12 from The Sea Wall Marguerite Duras 90 -- 13 from Beirut Blues Hanan al-Shaykh 93 -- Part II : Reading Urban Economies 105 -- Introduction 107 -- 14 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis David Harvey 116 -- 15 An Introduction to the Information Age 125 -- 16 from Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form Allen J. Scott 135 -- 17 Flexibilitation Through Metropolis : The Case of Postfordist Seoul, Korea Myung Rae Cho 147 -- 18 from Globalization and its Discontents Saskia Sassen 161 -- 19 from Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West William Cronon 171 -- 20 Six Discources on the Postmetropolis Edward W. Soja 188 -- 21 from Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World Sharon Zukin 197 -- 22 Reinventing the Johannesburg Inner City Lindsay Bremner 208 -- 23 from The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project Susan Buck Morss 219 -- 24 from The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy J.K. Gibson Graham 225 -- 25 from Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania Aili Mari Tripp 229 -- Part III: Reading Division and Difference 235 -- Introduction 237 -- 26 The Growth of the City Ernest W. Burgess 244 -- UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy044/2002022630.html ER -