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Book SynopsisUpdated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies,
The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities.
- Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates
- The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India
- Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies
- Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell''s A Companion to the City
Table of ContentsForeword ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Part I Materialities 3
Introducing Materialities 5
1 The Great Towns 11
Friedrich Engels
2 Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17
William Cronon
3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32
David Harvey
4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40
Manuel Castells
5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49
Allen J. Scott
6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60
Ash Amin
7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72
Sujata Patel
8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79
Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen
9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86
Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack
Part II Mobilities 95
Introducing Mobilities 97
10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103
Georg Simmel
11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111
Michel de Certeau
12 The Arcades Project 119
Walter Benjamin
13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126
Saskia Sassen
14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133
Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero
15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138
Arjun Appadurai
16 Connections 144
John Urry
17 Driving in the City 152
Nigel Thrift
18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159
Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu
Part III Division and Difference 169
Introducing Division and Difference 171
19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177
Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton
20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186
William Julius Wilson
21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193
Mike Davis
22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201
Neil Smith
23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the “Purely Atomic” Individual 211
Don Mitchell
24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221
Michel Foucault
25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228
Iris Marion Young
26 City A/Genders 237
Sophie Watson
27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243
George Chauncey
Part IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253
Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 255
28 The Public Realm 261
Richard Sennett
29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273
Jane Jacobs
30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278
Nancy N. Chen
31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284
Setha M. Low
32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293
Sharon Zukin
33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303
Judith R. Walkowitz
34 Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality 311
Franco Moretti
35 Writing the City 317
Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley
36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323
James Donald
Part V Urban Politics and Planning 331
Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 333
37 The Growth of the City 339
Ernest W. Burgess
38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345
Le Corbusier
39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília 355
James Holston
40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365
Anthony D. King
41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374
Edward W. Soja
42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382
John Hull Mollenkopf
43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391
John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch
44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402
Susan S. Fainstein
45 Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” 411
Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore
46 China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419
John Friedmann
47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428
Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang
Index 433
