The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Editor(s): Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson

Published Online: 15 MAY 2012 03:25AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405189811

Online ISBN: 9781444395105

DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105

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This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.

  • The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind
  • Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field
  • Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly
  • Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xv)

  2. Part I: City Materialities

    1. Chapter 1

      Reflections on Materialities (pages 1–14)

      Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson

    2. Chapter 2

      Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets (pages 15–25)

      Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck and Neil Brenner

    3. Chapter 3

      The Liquid City of Megalopolis (pages 26–37)

      John Rennie Short

    4. Chapter 4

      Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century (pages 38–47)

      Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon and Michael Harloe

    5. Chapter 5

      Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad (pages 48–56)

      Amrita Shah

    6. Chapter 6

      Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis (pages 57–65)

      Matthew Gandy

    7. Chapter 7

      Objects and the City (pages 66–78)

      Harvey Molotch

    8. Chapter 8

      Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore (pages 79–95)

      Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns

    9. Chapter 9

      The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings (pages 96–107)

      Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw

    10. Chapter 10

      One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon (pages 108–120)

      Peter Droege

    11. Chapter 11

      The New Military Urbanism (pages 121–133)

      Stephen Graham

    12. Chapter 12

      The City's New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market* (pages 134–141)

      Wang Xiaoming and Tyler Rooker

    13. Chapter 13

      Residence through Revolution and Reform (pages 142–153)

      Ray Forrest

  3. Part II: City Mobilities

    1. Chapter 14

      Reflections on Mobilities (pages 155–168)

      Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson

    2. Chapter 15

      “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control (pages 169–178)

      Andrew Ross

    3. Chapter 16

      Transnationality and the City (pages 179–192)

      Nina Glick Schiller

    4. Chapter 17

      Migrants Making Technology Markets (pages 193–209)

      Tyler Rooker

    5. Chapter 18

      Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City* (pages 210–220)

      Saskia Sassen

    6. Chapter 19

      Nomadic Cities (pages 221–234)

      David Pinder

    7. Chapter 20

      Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City (pages 235–244)

      Francis Dodsworth

    8. Chapter 21

      Disease and Infection in the City (pages 245–254)

      Simon Carter

    9. Chapter 22

      Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space (pages 255–264)

      Daniel J. Walkowitz

    10. Chapter 23

      Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space (pages 265–274)

      Brian Ladd

  4. Part III: City Affect

    1. Chapter 24

      Reflections on Affect (pages 275–287)

      Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson

    2. Chapter 25

      Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always near Collapse of the City (pages 288–303)

      Steve Pile

    3. Chapter 26

      The Future of New York's Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11* (pages 304–316)

      Max Page

    4. Chapter 27

      Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China (pages 317–326)

      Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

    5. Chapter 28

      The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong (pages 327–336)

      Christoph Lindner

    6. Chapter 29

      Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City (pages 337–346)

      Lesley Caldwell

    7. Chapter 30

      City Life and the Senses (pages 347–356)

      John Urry

    8. Chapter 31

      The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies (pages 357–366)

      Abdoumaliq Simone

    9. Chapter 32

      The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces (pages 367–375)

      Andrew Hill

  5. Part IV: City Publics and Cultures

    1. Chapter 33

      Reflections on Publics and Cultures (pages 377–389)

      Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson

    2. Chapter 34

      Reflections on the Public Realm* (pages 390–397)

      Richard Sennett

    3. Chapter 35

      City-Zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century? (pages 398–406)

      Michael Keith

    4. Chapter 36

      “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference (pages 407–418)

      Kurt Iveson and Ruth Fincher

    5. Chapter 37

      The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho (pages 419–430)

      Judith R. Walkowitz

    6. Chapter 38

      Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s (pages 431–441)

      Frank Mort

    7. Chapter 39

      The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City (pages 442–451)

      Rob Stone

    8. Chapter 40

      Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore (pages 452–462)

      Lily Kong

    9. Chapter 41

      Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City (pages 463–475)

      Setha Low

    10. Chapter 42

      The Street Politics of Jackie Smith (pages 476–487)

      John Paul Jones

    11. Chapter 43

      Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle (pages 488–498)

      Benjamin Rossiter and Katherine Gibson

  6. Part V: City Divisions and Differences

    1. Chapter 44

      Reflections on Division and Difference (pages 499–510)

      Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson

    2. Chapter 45

      The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (pages 511–520)

      Mike Savage

    3. Chapter 46

      Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism through Southern Cities (pages 521–531)

      Jenny Robinson and Sue Parnell

    4. Chapter 47

      Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City (pages 532–546)

      Jeremy Seekings

    5. Chapter 48

      Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary (pages 547–560)

      Ato Quayson

    6. Chapter 49

      Harlem between Ghetto and Renaissance (pages 561–570)

      Sharon Zukin

    7. Chapter 50

      Gentrification of the City (pages 571–585)

      Tom Slater

    8. Chapter 51

      The Homosexuality of Cities (pages 586–595)

      Julie Abraham

    9. Chapter 52

      Gendering Urban Space (pages 596–605)

      Jessica Ellen Sewell

    10. Chapter 53

      Nights in the Global City (pages 606–616)

      Sophie Body-Gendrot

  7. Part VI: City Politics and Planning

    1. Chapter 54

      Reflections on Politics and Planning (pages 616–630)

      Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson

    2. Chapter 55

      Urban Planning in an Uncertain World (pages 631–642)

      Ash Amin

    3. Chapter 56

      The Three Historic Currents of City Planning (pages 643–655)

      Peter Marcuse

    4. Chapter 57

      Photourbanism: Planning the City from above and from below (pages 656–666)

      Anthony Vidler

    5. Chapter 58

      Shaping Good Cities and Citizens (pages 667–678)

      Evelyn S. Ruppert

    6. Chapter 59

      Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era (pages 679–689)

      Edward W. Soja

    7. Chapter 60

      Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China's Cities (pages 690–700)

      John Friedmann

    8. Chapter 61

      Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China's Urbanism in the Making (pages 701–712)

      Fulong Wu

    9. Chapter 62

      Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City (pages 713–725)

      Roger Keil

    10. Chapter 63

      Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies (pages 726–737)

      Kevin Ward

    11. Chapter 64

      Making up Global Urban Policies (pages 738–746)

      Allan Cochrane

    12. Chapter 65

      Urban Governance in Europe: What is Governed? (pages 747–758)

      Patrick Le Galès

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      Index (pages 759–768)

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