Eade / Mele Understanding the City

Contemporary and Future Perspectives
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9932-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eade, John

Mele, Christopher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
List of Tables ix
List of Contributors x
Series Editors' Preface xv
Preface xvii
Part I: Introduction 1
1 Understanding the City 3
John Eade and Christopher Mele
Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City 25
2 Rescripting Cities with Difference 27
Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs, and Kay Anderson
3 The Public City 49
Sophie Watson
4 Social Justice and the South African City 66
David M. Smith
5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States 82
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development 107
6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global 109
Michael Peter Smith
7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 131
Peter Marcuse
8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The "LA School" and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development 159
Mark Gottdiener
Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe 181
9 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience 183
Chris Pickvance
10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond 204
Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan
11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia 222
J. S. Eades
Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East 245
12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore 247
Smriti Srinivas
13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power 278
Shlomo Hasson
14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements 305
Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts
Part VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States 337
15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development 339
Michael Indergaard
16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space 363
Alexander J. Reichl
17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies 379
Leonard Nevarez
18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood 397
Jan Lin
Index 419

Über Autor(innen)

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology atthe University of Surrey, Roehampton. He undertook research inCalcutta before completing his doctorate on Bangladeshi communitypolitics in London's East End. He directed the Wandsworthlocal/global study and his previous publications include ThePolitics of Community (1989), Living the Global City(1997), and Placing London (2000). He is currently directinga research project on Methodists in the global city andcollaborating on an ESRC-funded program on links between Britainand Bangladesh.
Christopher Mele is Associate Professor in the Departmentof Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He isthe author of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate,and Resistance in New York City (2000). His current research isa study of the influence of historical patterns of race and classupon contemporary urban growth and development along thesoutheastern coast of the United States.