Title & Author:

The city cultures reader / edited by Malcolm Miles, Iain Borden, and Tim Hall.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

xii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 8-10).
1. Shaping urban culture : I. Forms and spaces of the city. The uses of sidewalks : contact (1961) / Jane Jacobs -- Between movement and fixity : the place of order (1993) / Indra Kagis McEwen -- Singapore songlines : portrait of a Potemkin metropolis ... or thirty years of tabula rasa (1995) / Rem Koolhaas -- Market as Mandala : the erotic space of commerce (1996) / Sarah Buie 26 -- Thinking space/seeing space : Thamesmead revisited (1996) / Edward Robbins -- For whom is city design? Tactility versus visuality (1998) / Ken-Ichi Sasaki -- II. Cultures and urban politics and economics. Introduction (1986) / Murray Bookchin -- From managerialism to entrepreneurialism : the transformation in urban governance in late capitalism (1989) / David Harvey -- The new inequalities within cities (1994) / Saskia Sassen -- Industrialization and the city : work, speed-up, urbanization (1995) / Jonathan Charley -- Conclusion (1996) / Jane M. Jacobs -- People of the city I (1996) / Jeremy Sebrook -- Space and symbols in an age of decline (1996) / Sharon Zukin -- III. The culture industries. The culture industry : enlightenment as mass deception (1944) / Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer -- Out of order : the public art machine (1988) / Patricia Phillips -- The monument and the city (1991) / Samir Al-Khalil -- Theme parks--Why Not? (1995) / Raphael Samuel -- The power of place : urban landscapes as public history (1996) / Dolores Hayden -- European cities--first sow, then reap (1997) / Joost Smiers -- IV. Culture and technologies. The monastery and the clock (1956) / Lewis Mumford -- Instant city (1972) / Archigram -- A hyperactive world (1995) / Nigel Thrift -- The social and cultural life of the city (1996) / Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin.
2. Living urban culture : V. Everyday life. Ludwigshafen--Mannheim (1928) / Ernst Bloch -- The hotel lobby (1963) / Siegfried Kracauer -- World cities (1991) / Elizabeth Wilson -- Spaces and events (1994) / Bernard Tschumi -- Shop 'til you drop (1996) / K. Evans, I. Taylor, P. Fraser -- VI. Memory, imagination and identity. The house. From cellar to Garret. The significance of the hut (1969) / Gaston Bachelard -- Towards a critical regionalism (1985) / Kenneth Frampton -- Typological questions and The collective memory (1982) / Aldo Rossi -- Abysmal heights (1993) / Patrick Wright -- Boulevards for the fashionable and famous (1996) / Frank Mort -- Re-imagining the global : relocation and local identities in Cairo (1997) / Farha Ghannam -- VII. Representations of the city. Center-city, empty center and No address (1970) / Roland Barthes -- Plan of the present work and Social space (1974) / Henri Lefebvre -- Alternative space (1991) / Rosalyn Deutsche -- The philosophical notion of the city (1997) / Heinz Paetzold -- Brief encounters (1998) / Nigel Coates -- VIII. Cultures and ecology. Place (1976) / Christian Norber G-Schulz -- Palaces of mud (1984) / Hassan Fathy -- The Hannover principles (1992) / William McDonough -- Designing for a safer future (1995) / Victor Papanek -- Urban ecology : a basis for shaping cities (1995) / Michael Hough.
3. Negotiating urban cultures : IX. Social justice -- The dirt of cities, The aura of cities, The smell of the dead and Utopia of an odorless city (1986) / Ivan Illich -- The public realm (1991) / Herman Hertzberger -- "Class struggle on Avenue B" : The Lower East Side as wild wild west (1996) / Neil Smith -- Urban violence : an overview (1997) / Rajeev Patel -- X. Cultures of resistance and transgression. Border crossings (1995) / David Sibley -- Eco-rads on the road (1996) / George McKay -- The stimulus of a little confusion : on Spuistraat, Amsterdam (1996) / Edward W. Soja -- Claiming the public space : the mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1996) / Susana Torre -- XI. Utopia and dystopia. The political Theory of utopia : from melancholy to nostalgia (1973) / Judith Shklar -- Robert Moses : The expressway world (1982) / Marshall Berman -- Dystopia on the Thames (1993) / Jon Bird -- Everyday War (1995) / Lebbeus Woods -- XII. Possible Futures. ARCOSANTI : urban "arcology"--ecologically sound architecture' (1985) / Corinne McLaughlin, Gordon Davidson -- Soft cities (1995) / William Mitchell -- Whatever happened to urbanism? / Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL (1995) / Rem Koolhaas -- Extract (1996) / Anne Pendleton-Jullian.

Summary:

This collection of 60 texts on the cultural aspects, frameworks and perceptions of cities reeflects the concerns for diversity and difference rather than conventional notions of universality.

ISBN:

0415207339 (hb.)
9780415207331 (hb.)
0415207347 (pb.)
9780415207348 (pb.)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Culture.
Cities
Villes.
Vie urbaine.
cities.
culture note.
Stadt
Kultur
Stadscultuur.
Sociology, Urban.

Added entries:

Miles, Malcolm.
Borden, Iain.
Hall, Tim, 1968-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211466
Call No.: HT151 .C58 2000
Status: Available