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Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson - Blackwell Companion to Urban Studies, Övrigt

Övrigt, Engelska, 2012

Blackwell Companion to Urban Studies

Av Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson

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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
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  • Märke: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-05-15
  • Höjd: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 666 g
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Förlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • EAN: 9781444395105
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Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005) and co-editor of Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and The Blackwell City Reader (with Sophie Watson, second edition 2010). Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997) and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995), Metropolis Now (1994), and The Blackwell City Reader (with Gary Bridge, second edition 2010), among other publications.

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"This collection of 65 academic essays covers everything from the role of dance in shaping cities to race and class in South Africa to the application of military techniques to city planning ... The destructive effects of global capital and neo-liberal politics are much explored. Throwing out striking insights and facts... [it offers] useful and necessary responses to significant changes in the world." The Observer "This new volume is in six sections, each introduced by an editorial overview... The individual chapters range from theoretical politics and sociology to the practicalities of maintaining high rise housing. Films and novels provide examples in many sections. Sometimes a chapter can be a surprise ... there is something new and something very familiar in each ... Geographers and sociologists will get much from this book, and there is material for architects and politicians. There is also something in the book for the ordinary city dweller." Reference Reviews "Of great interest to upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of urban studies, as well as those in urban planning, urban sociology, and urban geography ... Recommended." Choice

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