Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City - Brossura

Parker, Simon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415245923 ISBN 13: 9780415245920

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2003

Riassunto

For the first time Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies, and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe to one another.

Both students and urban scholars will appreciate the critical way in which classical and contemporary debates on the nature of the city are presented. Extensive use is made throughout of documentary, literary and cultural sources to bring the different theoretical perspectives to life. Discussion points introduce and explain key concepts and intellectual histories in a jargon free manner. End of chapter further readings have also been annotated to encourage additional study.

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Recensione:

"Probably the best guide to the complex currents of contemporary urban theory currently available." - Stephen Graham, University of Newcastle

'This is, unequivocally, the best urban textbook to have been written in recent years; perhaps, even, the best ever... Parker deserves congratulating for managing to produce such a comprehensive, well-balanced and well pitched overview of contemporary knowledge on the city.' - David B. Clarke, University of Leeds for Progress in Human Geography

Contenuti:

1. Introduction: Encountering the City 2. The Foundations of Urban Theory: Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebvre 3.The City Described: Social Reform And The Empirical Tradition in Classic Urban Studies 4. Visions of Utopia: From the Garden City to the New Urbanism 5. The City and the Suburb: Urban Studies In The United States and Britain after the Second World War 6. Urban Fortunes: Making Sense of the Capitalist City 7. The Contested City: Politics, People and Power 8. From Pillar to Post: Culture, Representation and Difference in the Urban World 9. Putting the City in its Place: Urban Futures and the Future of Urban Theory

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415245923
• ISBN 13: 9780415245920
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224