Title & Author:

A companion to the city / edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.

Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.

Description:

xiv, 640 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Blackwell companions to geography ; [1]

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Imaging Cities. 1. City Imaginaries / Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 2. Three Urban Discourses / John Rennie Short. 3. Putting Cities First: Remapping the Origins of Urbanism / Edward W. Soja. 4. Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below / Anthony Vidler. 5. The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination, and Media Technologies / James Donald. 6. Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City / Lesley Caldwell. 7. The City as Imperial Centre: Imagining London in Two Caribbean Novels / Riad Akbur. 8. Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams / Steve Pile.

Summary:

"A Companion to the City sets out to think about cities in more textured ways and brings together scholars from a range of fields to create a multidisciplinary approach to cities. Academics from disciplines as diverse as film studies and economics, philosophy and geography, turn their attention to the city and generate exciting new ways of thinking." "This Companion provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0631210520 (alk. paper)
9780631210528 (alk. paper)
0631235787
9780631235781

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Cities and towns Cross-cultural studies.
Cities
Villes.
Villes Études transculturelles.
cities.
Stadt
Stadtgeografie
Stadtleben
Urbanität
Aufsatzsammlung
Steden.
Sociaal-economische verandering.
Cultuurverandering.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Cross-cultural studies.

Added entries:

Bridge, Gary.
Watson, Sophie.
Blackwell companions to geography ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264100
Call No.: BIB 195421
Status: Available