Theorizing The City

Author : Setha M. Low
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813527201

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Theorizing the City by Setha M. Low Pdf

Anthropological perspective are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologist have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission. Following a brief history of urban anthropology, emphasizing developments in the field during the 1990s, this volume presents twelve ethnographies of major cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as frameworks for the essays. Each section highlights current research trends such as poststructural studies of race, class and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meanings and social production of urban spaces.

Author : Dennis R. Judd,Dick W. Simpson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816665754

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The City, Revisited by Dennis R. Judd,Dick W. Simpson Pdf

Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century.

Author : Mary Lawhon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000767957

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Making Urban Theory by Mary Lawhon Pdf

This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars create space for the inclusion of southern cities in urban theory. Making Urban Theory addresses debates of the past fifty years regarding whether and why scholars should conceptualize southern cities as different and argues for the continued importance of unlearning existing theory. With examples from the urban question to environmental justice, urban infrastructure to basic income, this volume highlights the limitations of existing explanations as well as how thinking from the south entails more than collecting data in new places. Throughout the book, instances of juxtapositions, unease, unlearning and learning anew emphasize how theory-making from southern cases can open avenues to more creative possibilities. The book pulls theories apart, examining distinct components to better understand the universality and provinciality of empirical phenomena, causality and norms, including questions of what a city is and ought to be. This book delivers a clearer articulation of ongoing debates and future possibilities for southern urban scholarship, and it will thus be relevant for both scholars and students of Urban Studies, Urban Theory, Urban Geography, Research Methods in Geography, Postcolonial/Southern Cities and Global Cities at graduate and post-graduate levels.

Author : David C. Thorns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403990310

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The Transformation of Cities by David C. Thorns Pdf

The aim of the book is to examine the transformation of the city in the late 20th century and explore the ways in which city life is structured. The shift from modern-industrial to information/consumption-based 'post-modern' cities is traced through the text. The focus is not just on America and Europe but also explores cities in other parts of the world as city growth in the twenty first century will be predominantly outside of these regions.

Author : Nora Fisher-Onar,Susan C. Pearce,E. Fuat Keyman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813589114

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Istanbul by Nora Fisher-Onar,Susan C. Pearce,E. Fuat Keyman Pdf

Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a proud nation-state even as it has become a global city of multinational corporations, NGOs, and capital flows. Rather than exploring Istanbul as one place at one time, the contributors to this volume focus on the city’s experience of migration and globalization over the last two centuries. Asking what Istanbul teaches us about living with people whose hopes jostle with one’s own, contributors explore the rise, collapse, and fragile rebirth of cosmopolitan conviviality in a once and future world city. The result is a cogent, interdisciplinary exchange about an urban space that is microcosmic of dilemmas of diversity across time and space.

Author : Setha M. Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:604842102

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Author : Setha Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317369639

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Spatializing Culture by Setha Low Pdf

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork examples are employed throughout the text to highlight not just the theoretical development of the idea of spatializing culture, but how it can be used in undertaking ethnographies of space and place. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars from a number of disciplines who are interested in the study of culture through the lens of space and place.

Author : John Eade,Christopher Mele
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444399325

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Understanding the City by John Eade,Christopher Mele Pdf

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

Author : Michael J Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136977879

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The Time of the City by Michael J Shapiro Pdf

"As attuned to the spatial as it is to the temporal, and as theoretically sophisticated as it is politically relevant, this is a powerful and intriguing meditation on cities of the page, the screen and the moment." Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Geography, Durham University, UK.

Author : Mateusz Laszczkowski
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785332579

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'City of the Future' by Mateusz Laszczkowski Pdf

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Author : Simon Curtis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198744016

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Global Cities and Global Order by Simon Curtis Pdf

The re-emergence of the city from the long shadow of the state in the late-twentieth century was facilitated by the state itself. The unprecedented size and scale of today's global cities and mega cities owe their conditions of possibility to a fundamental shift in the character of political order at the level of the international system. This book argues that we must understand the rise of the global city as part of a wider process of the transformation of international political order, and of the character of international society. Global cities are an inscription of the ideals of a market society in space, constructed and defended at the level of international society. They embody the ascendance of a set of liberal principles at a certain moment in history - a moment related to the hegemonic status of leading states in the second half of the twentieth century, and the ability of those states to shape international norms. But the evolution of these urban forms has also reflected the tendency for deregulated markets to generate inequality and polarisation: these features are also inscribed in the spaces of global cities. Global cities focus and amplify the tensions and contradictions within the contemporary international system, and become key strategic sites for struggles over social justice and the character of political life in the twenty-first century. Global Cities and Global Order demonstrates the significance of the re-emergence of cities from the long shadow of the nation-state is far-reaching. Only by examining the mechanisms by which cities have become empowered in the last few decades can we understand their new functions and capabilities in global politics.

Author : Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317250623

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Theory from the South by Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff Pdf

As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory from the South provides new insights into key problems of our time.

Author : Neil Brenner,Peter Marcuse,Margit Mayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136625046

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Cities for People, Not for Profit by Neil Brenner,Peter Marcuse,Margit Mayer Pdf

The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism. The contributors provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary urban restructuring, including the issues of neoliberalization, gentrification, colonization, "creative" cities, architecture and political power, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures and the ongoing struggles of "right to the city" movements. At the same time, the book explores the diverse interpretive frameworks – critical and otherwise – that are currently being used in academic discourse, in political struggles, and in everyday life to decipher contemporary urban transformations and contestations. The slogan, "cities for people, not for profit," sets into stark relief what the contributors view as a central political question involved in efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time. Drawing upon European and North American scholarship in sociology, politics, geography, urban planning and urban design, the book provides useful insights and perspectives for citizens, activists and intellectuals interested in exploring alternatives to contemporary forms of capitalist urbanization.

Author : Neil Brenner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190627188

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New Urban Spaces by Neil Brenner Pdf

Openings: the urban question as a scale question? -- Between fixity and motion: scaling the urban fabric -- Restructuring, rescaling and the urban question -- Global city formation and the rescaling of urbanization -- Cities and the political geographies of the "new" economy -- Competitive city-regionalism and the politics of scale -- Urban growth machines : but at what scale? -- A thousand layers: geographies of uneven development -- Planetary urbanization: mutations of the urban question -- Afterword: new spaces of urbanization

Author : Michael Storper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400846269

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Keys to the City by Michael Storper Pdf

Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper identifies four contexts that shape urban economic development: economic, institutional, innovational and interactional, and political. The book explores how these contexts operate and how they interact, leading to developmental success in some regions and failure in others. Demonstrating that the global economy is increasingly driven by its major cities, the keys to the city are the keys to global development. In his conclusion, Storper specifies eight rules of economic development targeted at policymakers. Keys to the City explains why economists, sociologists, and political scientists should take geography seriously.