Main entry:

Parker, Simon, 1964-

Title & Author:

Urban theory and the urban experience : encountering the city / Simon Parker.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

ix, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ENCOUNTERING THE CITY -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF URBAN THEORY: WEBER, SIMMEL, BENJAMIN AND LEFEBVRE -- THE CITY DESCRIBED: SOCIAL REFORM AND THE EMPIRICAL TRADITION IN CLASSIC URBAN STUDIES -- VISIONS OF UTOPIA: FROM THE GARDEN CITY TO THE NEW URBANISM -- BETWEEN THE SUBURB AND THE GHETTO: URBAN STUDIES AND THE SEARCH FOR COMMUNITY IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- URBAN FORTUNES: MAKING SENSE OF THE CAPITALIST CITY -- THE CONTESTED CITY: POLITICS, PEOPLE AND POWER -- FROM PILLAR TO POST: CULTURE, REPRESENTATION AND DIFFERENCE IN THE URBAN WORLD -- PUTTING THE CITY IN ITS PLACE: URBAN FUTURES AND THE FUTURE OF URBAN THEORY.

Summary:

"This book will be of interest to students, scholars, practitioners and all those who wish to learn more about why the urban has become the dominant social, economic and cultural form of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0415245915 (alk. paper)
9780415245913 (alk. paper)
0415245923 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415245920 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203471784
0203471784
9786610074518
6610074518

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Cities and towns Philosophy.
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology, Urban Philosophy.
Cities
Villes.
Villes Philosophie.
Sociologie urbaine.
Sociologie urbaine Philosophie.
cities.
urban sociology.
Architekturtheorie
Städtebau
Urbanität
Stadtsoziologie
Stadtplanung
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Theorievorming.
Philosophie.
Urbanisme.
Ville.

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Urban theory & the urban experience

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243315
Call No.: HT151 .P35 2004
Status: Available