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xii, 404 p. ill. ; 26 cm. Acknowledgments xiii -- Introduction 1 -- Part 1 Foundations 13 -- Introduction 15 -- "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" 19 -- "The Pattern of Movement of Residential Rental Neighborhoods" 28 -- "A Theory of Location for Cities" 37 -- "The Nature of Cities" 46 -- Part 2 Globalization 57 -- Introduction 59 -- "World-City Network: A New Metageography?" 63 -- "Social Polarisation in Global Cities: Theory and Evidence" 74 -- "From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far-from-complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta" 84 -- "Cultural Globalization and the Identity of Place: The Reconstruction of Amsterdam" 93 -- Part 3 Restructuring 103 -- Introduction 105 -- "The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis" 109 -- "Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry and the Spread of North American Cities, 1850-1950" 121 -- "Gentrification, the Frontier, and the Restructuring of Urban Space" 128 -- "Postmodern Urbanism" 138 -- Plate Section -- Part 4 Politics, Governance, and Inequality 153 -- Introduction 155 -- "Local Politics in a Global Era: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally" 159 -- "Retooling the Machine: Economic Crisis, State Restructuring, and Urban Politics" 168 -- "Local Governance, the Crises of Fordism and the Changing Geographies of Regulation" 179 -- "Yuppies, Yuffies and the New Urban Order" 191 -- "From Global to Local: The Rise of Homelessness in Los Angeles during the 1980s" 200 -- Part 5 Difference 211 -- Introduction 213 -- "The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category" 219 -- "An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Los Angeles" 229 -- "On the Links between Home and Work: Family-Household Strategies in a Buoyant Labour Market" 241 -- "Gender, Class, and Gentrification: Enriching the Debate" 251 -- "(Re)Negotiating the 'Heterosexual Street': Lesbian Production of Space" 263 -- Part 6 Form and Symbolism 273 -- Introduction 275 -- "The Restless Urban Landscape: Economic and Sociocultural Change and the Transformation of Metropolitan Washington, DC" 281 -- "The 'Magic of the Mall': An Analysis of Form, Function, and Meaning in the Contemporary Retail Built Environment" 293 -- "Styles of the Times: Liberal and Neo-conservative Landscapes in Inner Vancouver, 1968-1986" 304 -- "Portland's Comprehensive Plan as Text: The Fred Meyer Case and the Politics of Reading" 315 -- "Sunshine and Shadow: Lighting and Color in the Depiction of Cities on Film" 325 -- Part 7 Technologies 335 -- Introduction 337 -- "Fetishizing the Modern City: The Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks" 343 -- "Telecommunications and the Changing Geographies of Knowledge Transmission in the Late 20th Century" 353 -- "City Watching: Closed Circuit Television Surveillance in Public Spaces" 364 -- "GIS Use in Community Planning: A Multidimensional Analysis of Empowerment" 373 -- Illustration credits 385 -- Copyright information 388 -- Index 391 -- edited by Nicholas R. Fyfe and Judith T. Kenny. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references . Urban geography Anthologies GF125 U73 2005 307.76 0415307015 0415307023 9780415307024 2004018547 pucpr 130926 20241017114734.0 eng