Understanding the city : contemporary and future perspectives
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Understanding the city : contemporary and future perspectives
(Studies in urban and social change)
Blackwell, 2002
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.
Table of 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 3
John Eade and Christopher Mele
Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City 25
2 Rescripting Cities with Difference 27
Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs, and Kay Anderson
3 The Public City 49
Sophie Watson
4 Social Justice and the South African City 66
David M. Smith
5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States 82
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development 107
6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global 109
Michael Peter Smith
7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 131
Peter Marcuse
8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The "LA School" and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development 159
Mark Gottdiener
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 183
Chris Pickvance
10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond 204
Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan
11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia 222
J. S. Eades
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 247
Smriti Srinivas
13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power 278
Shlomo Hasson
14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements 305
Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts
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 339
Michael Indergaard
16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space 363
Alexander J. Reichl
17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies 379
Leonard Nevarez
18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood 397
Jan Lin
Index 419
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