Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives

Copyright © 2002 Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives

Editor(s): John Eade, Christopher Mele

Published Online: 15 APR 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631224068

Online ISBN: 9780470693582

DOI: 10.1002/9780470693582

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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

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xvii)

  2. Part I: Introduction

    1. Chapter 1

      Understanding the City (pages 3–23)

      John Eade and Christopher Mele

  3. Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City

    1. Chapter 2

      Rescripting Cities with Difference (pages 27–48)

      Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs and Kay Anderson

    2. Chapter 3

      The Public City (pages 49–65)

      Sophie Watson

    3. Chapter 4

      Social Justice and the South African City (pages 66–81)

      David M. Smith

    4. Chapter 5

      The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States (pages 82–106)

      Sophie Body-Gendrot

  4. Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development

    1. Chapter 6

      Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global (pages 109–130)

      Michael Peter Smith

    2. Chapter 7

      Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells1 (pages 131–158)

      Peter Marcuse

    3. Chapter 8

      Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development (pages 159–180)

      Mark Gottdiener

  5. Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe

    1. Chapter 9

      State Socialism, Post-Socialism and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience (pages 183–203)

      Chris Pickvance

    2. Chapter 10

      The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond (pages 204–221)

      Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan

    3. Chapter 11

      Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia (pages 222–243)

      J. S. Eades

  6. Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East

    1. Chapter 12

      Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore (pages 247–277)

      Smriti Srinivas

    2. Chapter 13

      The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power (pages 278–304)

      Shlomo Hasson

    3. Chapter 14

      Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements (pages 305–335)

      Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts

  7. Part VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States

    1. Chapter 15

      The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development (pages 339–362)

      Michael Indergaard

    2. Chapter 16

      Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space (pages 363–378)

      Alexander J. Reichl

    3. Chapter 17

      Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies (pages 379–396)

      Leonard Nevarez

    4. Chapter 18

      Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood (pages 397–418)

      Jan Lin

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      Index (pages 419–423)

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