The City: Post-Modernity

The City: Post-Modernity

Latham, Alan

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VOLUME ONE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE CONTEMPORARY CITY Part One: Cities and the New Global Economy “Chinatown”, Part Two? The ‘Internationalization’ of Downtown Los Angeles M. Davis Los Angeles as Postmodern Urbanism M. Dear and S. Flusty European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy M. Castells The City as an Entertainment Machine R. Lloyd and T.N. Clark A Flexible City of Strangers R. Sennett Part Two: Theorising Global and World Cities Leading World Cities: Empirical Evaluations of Urban Nodes in Multiple Networks P.J. Taylor Locating Cities on Global Circuits S. Sassen The Ordinary City A. Amin and S. Graham Theses on Urbanization N. Brenner Mexico: Cultural Globalization in a Disintegrating City N.G. Canclini Super-Diverse Street: A ‘Trans-Ethnography’ across Migrant Localities S.M. Hall Part Three: Neoliberalism, Globalisation, and Policy Mobility Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction D. Harvey New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy N. Smith Neoliberal Urbanism: Models, Moments, Mutations J. Peck, N. Theodore and N. Brenner Expertise, Truth, and Urban Policy Mobilities: Global Circuits of Knowledge in the Development of Vancouver, Canada’s ‘Four Pillar’ Drug Strategy E.J. McCann VOLUME TWO: LIFESTYLE, CONSUMPTION AND THE UNEQUAL CITY Part One: Urban Lifestyles, Gentrification and New Urban Spaces Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization: Reflections on ‘Post Modernism’ in the American City D. Harvey Artists, Aestheticisation and the Field of Gentrification D. Ley Consuming Authenticity: From Outposts of Difference to Means of Exclusion S. Zukin Part Two: Cultural Economies Bohemia and Economic Geography R. Florida Creative Cities: Conceptual Issues and Policy Questions A.J. Scott Urban Development and the Politics of a Creative Class: Evidence from a Study of Artists A. Markusen Part Three: Urban Spectacle Landscape as Spectacle: World’s Fairs and the Culture of Heroic Consumption D. Ley and K. Olds Appropriating the Spectacle: Play and Politics in a Leisure Landscape Q. Stevens and K. Dovey Part Four: Urbanity, Sociality and Consumption Urbanity, Lifestyle and Making Sense of the New Urban Cultural Economy: Notes from Auckland, New Zealand A. Latham Transposing the Urban to the Mall: Routes, Relationships, and Resistance in Two Santiago, Chile, Shopping Centers J. Stillerman and R. Salcedo The Magic of the Marketplace: Sociality in a Neglected Public Space S. Watson Part Five: New Geographies of Urban Exclusion Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation T.P. Caldeira Neighbourhood Effects and Cultural Exclusion H. Bauder Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality L. Wacquant The Cosmopolitan Canopy E. Anderson VOLUME THREE: MULTIPLE MODERNITIES AND THE POSTCOLONIAL CITY Part One: Re-Thinking Urban Comparison The Legitimacy of Comparisons in Comparative Urban Studies: A Theoretical Position and an Application to North African Cities J. Abu-Lughod The Times and Spaces of Modernity (or Who Needs Postmodernism?) A.D. King Thinking Cities through Elsewhere: Comparative Tactics for a More Global Urban Studies J. Robinson Hybrid Gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across Southern and Northern Cities C. Lemanski Part Two: Citizenship and Innovations in Living Together Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of Global Urban Peripheries J. Holston The Porto Alegre Experiment and Deliberative Democratic Theory G. Baiocchi Living Dangerously: Biopolitics and Urban Citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia A. Zeiderman Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics A. Appadurai Part Three: Planning and Governance Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization A. Roy China’s Changing Urban Governance in the Transition towards a More Market-Oriented Economy F. Wu Part Four: Postcolonial Urban Materialities People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg A. Simone The City as Assemblage: Dwelling and Urban Space C. McFarlane Postcolonialising Informality? A. Varley The Metonymic Urbanism of Twenty-First-Century Mumbai A. Harris Haussmannization in the Tropics: Abject Urbanism and Infrastructural Violence in Nicaragua D. Rodgers VOLUME FOUR: COMPLEXITY AND MATERIALITY Part One: Theorising Materiality Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City M. Gandy Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies A. Latham and D. McCormack The Good City A. Amin Out of Order Understanding Repair and Maintenance S. Graham and N. Thrift Part Two: Mobility, Bodies, Affect Encountering Stressed Bodies: Slow Creep Transformations and Tipping Points of Commuting Mobilities D. Bissell Things at Work: Informal Social-Material Mechanisms for Getting the Job Done H. Molotch and N. Mcclain ‘But Malice Aforethought’: Cities and the Natural History of Hatred N. Thrift Part Three: Digital and Smart Cities The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism R. Kitchin Extract from Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City W.J. Mitchell Part Four: Co-Producing Knowledge about Urban Environments Community Knowledge in Environmental Health Science: Co-Producing Policy Expertise J. Corburn Living Roofs and Brownfield Wildlife: Towards a Fluid Biogeography of UK Nature Conservation J. Lorimer Part Five: Cities and the Anthropocene Global Forecasts of Urban Expansion to 2030 and Direct Impacts on Biodiversity and Carbon Pools K.C. Seto, B. Güneralp and L.R. Hutyra Cities and the Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change M.M. Betsill and H. Bulkeley Part Six: New Models of Cities and Complexity The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities M. Batty Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities L.M. Bettencourt, J. Lobo, D. Helbing, C. Kühnert and G.B. West Extract from A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

  • ISBN: 9781473937703
  • Editorial: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LIMITED.
  • Encuadernacion: Tela
  • Páginas: 1456
  • Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2018
  • Nº Volúmenes: 4
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