TY - BOOK AU - Eade,John AU - Mele,Christopher TI - Understanding the City: contemporary and future perspectives. T2 - Studies in urban and social change SN - 9780631224075 AV - HT119 U53 2002 U1 - 307.76 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Oxford, UK, USA PB - Blackwell Publishers Ltd KW - Cities and towns KW - Local KW - Sociology urban N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: List of Illustrations viii -- List of Tables ix -- List of Contributors x -- Series Editors ' Preface xv -- Preface xvii -- Part I : Introduction 1 -- 1 Understanding the City John Eade and Christopher Mele 1 -- Part II : A Middle Ground ? Difference , Social Justice , and the City 25 -- 2 Rescripting Cities with Difference Ruth Fincher , Jane M . Jacobs , and Kay Anderson 27 -- 3 The Public City Sophie Watson 49 -- 4 Social Justice and the South African City David M . Smith 66 -- 5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States Sophie Body - Gendrot 82 -- Part III: The Global and Local , the Information Age , and American Metropolitan Development 107 -- 6 Power in Place : Retheorizing the Local and the Global Michael Peter Smith 109 -- 7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells Peter Marcuse 131 -- 8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising : The " LA School " and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development Mark Gottdrener 159 -- Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe 181 -- 9 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns : Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience Chris Pickvance 183 -- 10 The China Difference : City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond Dorothy J . Solinger and Kam Wing Chan 204 -- 11 Economic Miracles and Megacities : The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia J . S . Eades 222 -- Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts : India and the Middle East 245 -- 12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future : Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore Smriti Srinivas 247 -- 13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology , Culture , and Power Shlomo Hasson 278 -- 14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces : Globalization , Discursive Shifts , and Social Movements Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts 305 -- Part VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts : The United States 337 -- 15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley : New Media Circuits of Innovation , Speculation , and Urban Development Michael Indergaard 339 -- 16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York : Sex , Political Economy , and Public Space Alexander J . Reichl 363 -- 17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power ? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies Leonard Nevarez 379 -- 18 Dream Factory Redux : Mass Culture , Symbolic Sites , and Redevelopment in Hollywood Jan Lin 397 -- Index 419 -- ; Illustrations: 12.1 Map of South Asian urban sites and places associated with the Sai Baba movement 248 -- 12.2 Map of the Bangalore metropolitan area in 1995 255 -- 12.3 Shivamma Thayee ' s house and temple constructed by her in Rupena Agrahara 261 -- 12.4 The black stone image of Shirdi Sai Baba in Rupena Agrahara 262 -- 12.5 The Shirdi Sai Baba temple in Someshvarapura 264 -- 12.6 Sathya Sai Baba ( left ) and Shirdi Sai Baba ( right ) 267 -- 12.7 Sai Darshan in Indiranagar 270 -- 13.1 Map of the cities of Jerusalem 280 -- ; Tables: 9.1 The housing situation of different occupational groups in two provincial cities in Hungary in 1968 189 -- 14.1 Population trends of major Muslim cities 306 -- 14.2 Gender , education , and labor force participation 326 -- 18.1 Domestic box - office market shares 404 -- 18.2 Diverse media and entertainment conglomerates 405 -- ER -