The New Blackwell Companion to the City 1st Edition by Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson ISBN 1405189819 9781405189811

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ISBN 10: 1405189819

ISBN 13: 9781405189811 

Author: Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson 

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

Table of contents:

Part I: City Materialities

• Chapter 1: Reflections on Materialities

• Chapter 2: Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets

• Chapter 3: The Liquid City of Megalopolis

• Chapter 4: Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century

• Chapter 5: Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad

• Chapter 6: Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis

• Chapter 7: Objects and the City

• Chapter 8: Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore

• Chapter 9: The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings

• Chapter 10: One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon

• Chapter 11: The New Military Urbanism

• Chapter 12: The City’s New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market

• Chapter 13: Residence through Revolution and Reform

Part II: City Mobilities

• Chapter 14: Reflections on Mobilities

• Chapter 15: “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control

• Chapter 16: Transnationality and the City

• Chapter 17: Migrants Making Technology Markets

• Chapter 18: Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City

• Chapter 19: Nomadic Cities

• Chapter 20: Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City

• Chapter 21: Disease and Infection in the City

• Chapter 22: Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space

• Chapter 23: Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space

Part III: City Affect

• Chapter 24: Reflections on Affect

• Chapter 25: Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always near Collapse of the City

• Chapter 26: The Future of New York’s Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11

• Chapter 27: Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China

• Chapter 28: The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai’s Cinematic Hong Kong

• Chapter 29: Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City

• Chapter 30: City Life and the Senses

• Chapter 31: The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies

• Chapter 32: The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces

Part IV: City Publics and Cultures

• Chapter 33: Reflections on Publics and Cultures

• Chapter 34: Reflections on the Public Realm

• Chapter 35: City-Zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century?

• Chapter 36: “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference

• Chapter 37: The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho

• Chapter 38: Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s

• Chapter 39: The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City

• Chapter 40: Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore

• Chapter 41: Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City

• Chapter 42: The Street Politics of Jackie Smith

• Chapter 43: Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle

Part V: City Divisions and Differences

• Chapter 44: Reflections on Division and Difference

• Chapter 45: The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

• Chapter 46: Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism through Southern Cities

• Chapter 47: Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City

• Chapter 48: Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary

• Chapter 49: Harlem between Ghetto and Renaissance

• Chapter 50: Gentrification of the City

• Chapter 51: The Homosexuality of Cities

• Chapter 52: Gendering Urban Space

• Chapter 53: Nights in the Global City

Part VI: City Politics and Planning

• Chapter 54: Reflections on Politics and Planning

• Chapter 55: Urban Planning in an Uncertain World

• Chapter 56: The Three Historic Currents of City Planning

• Chapter 57: Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below

• Chapter 58: Shaping Good Cities and Citizens

• Chapter 59: Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era

• Chapter 60: Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China’s Cities

• Chapter 61: Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China’s Urbanism in the Making

• Chapter 62: Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City

• Chapter 63: Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies

• Chapter 64: Making up Global Urban Policies

• Chapter 65: Urban Governance in Europe: What is Governed?

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