Title & Author:

Understanding the city : contemporary and future perspectives / edited by John Eade and Christopher Mele.

Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, ©2002.

Description:

xxi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in urban and social change

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Introduction. 1. Understanding the City / John Eade and Christopher Mele -- pt. II. A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City. 2. Rescripting Cities with Difference / Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs and Kay Anderson. 3. The Public City / Sophie Watson. 4. Social Justice and the South African City / David M. Smith. 5. The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- pt. III. The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development. 6. Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global / Michael Peter Smith. 7. Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells / Peter Marcuse.

Summary:

Understanding the City provides a contemporary, multi-disciplinary analysis of how the study of urban society is likely to develop during the next millennium.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0631224068 (alk. paper)
9780631224068 (alk. paper)
0631224076 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780631224075 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
cities.
urban sociology.
Stadsplanning.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Stadscultuur.

Added entries:

Eade, John, 1946-
Mele, Christopher.
Studies in urban and social change.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224758
Call No.: HT119 .U53 2002
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available