Title & Author:

The city cultures reader / [edited by] Malcolm Miles and Tim Hall ; with Iain Borden.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2003.

Description:

xiii, 508 pages.

Series:

Routledge urban reader series ; no. 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. What is a City? -- The Metropolis and Mental Life / Georg Simmel -- The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project / Ernest W. Burgess -- What is a City? / Lewis Mumford -- The Hotel Lobby / Siegfried Kracauer -- World Cities / Elizabeth Wilson -- Pt. 2. What is Culture? -- Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism / Raymond Williams -- The Affirmative Character of Culture / Herbert Marcuse -- The Art Museum as Ritual / Carol Duncan -- Separation Perfected / Guy Debord -- Globalised Culture: The Triumph of the West? / John Tomlinson -- Pt. 3. Symbolic Economies -- The Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods / Pierre Bourdieu -- Opening up Public Art's Spaces: Art, Regeneration and Audience / Tim Hall -- Fragments of a Metropolitan Viewpoint / Martha Rosler -- The World in a Shopping Mall / Margaret Crawford -- Justice, Politics, and the Creation of Urban Space / Susan Fainstein -- Pt. 4. The Culture Industry -- The Culture Industry Reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno -- Reinterpreting Local Culture / John Urry -- Barcelona: The Making of a Cultural City / Dianne Dodd -- Difference, Boundaries, Community: The Irish in Britain / Mary J. Hickman -- Out of Order: The Public Art Machine / Patricia Philips -- Pt. 5. Cultures and Technologies -- The City and the Car / Mimi Sheller and John Urry -- The Social and Cultural Life of the City / Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin -- The People's Radio of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida: Alternative Communication and Cultures of Resistance in Brazil / Vivian Schelling -- Posthuman Unbounded: Artificial Evolution and High-tech Subcultures / Tiziana Terranova -- Electronic Civil Disobedience / Critical Art Ensemble -- Pt. 6. Everyday Lives -- Plan of the Present Work / Henri Lefebvre -- Railway Navigation and Incarceration / Michel de Certeau -- Home in the Weeds / Lucy Lippard -- Tango: A Choreography of Urban Displacement / Ana Betancour and Peter Hasdell -- A Performative Critique of the City: The Urban Practice of Skateboarding, 1958-98 / Iain Borden -- Pt. 7. Contesting Identity -- Space, Place and Gender / Doreen Massey -- Social Movements and the Politics of Difference / Iris Marion Young -- World Alienation and the Modern Age: The Deprivations of Obscurity / Kimberley Curtis -- Changing the Public Space: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo / Suzana Torre -- Re-imagining the Global: Relocation and Local Identities in Cairo / Farha Ghannam -- Pt. 8. Boundaries and Transgressions -- The Dirt of Cities, the Aura of Cities, the Smell of the Dead, Utopia of an Odorless City / Ivan Illich -- Border Crossings / David Sibley -- Engendering Race Research: Unsettling the Self-Other Dichotomy / Kay Anderson -- A Chance to Live / Luce Irigaray -- New Urbanism and its Discontents / Dean MacCannell -- Pt. 9. Utopias and Dystopias -- The Political Theory of Utopia: From Melancholia to Nostalgia / Judith Shklar -- Ernst Bloch and the Ubiquity of Utopia / Vincent Geoghegan -- Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City / Rosalyn Deutsche -- The Death of Radical Planning: Radical Praxis for a Postmodern Age / Leonie Sandercock -- Cafe-Extra: Culture, Representation and the Everyday / Malcolm Miles -- Pt. 10. Possible Futures -- Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form / Edward Soja -- Environmental Justice and the Sustainable City / Graham Haughton -- The Urban Poor: An Invisible Resource / Jeremy Seabrook -- Viva Loisaida Libre / Bill Weinberg -- Architecture Co-generated with Poetry, because the Word is Inaugural, it Conveys, it Gives Birth / Ann M. Pendleton-Julian.

Summary:

From Simmel and Burgess, to Zukin, Fainstein and Soja this title presents classic and contemporary writing on the culture of cities. Themes include: culture and technologies; everyday lives; contesting identity; boundaries and transgressions; utopias and dystopias, and possible urban futures.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0415302447
9780415302449
0415302455
9780415302456

Subject:

Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Culture.
Cities
Villes.
Vie urbaine.
cities.

Added entries:

Miles, Malcolm.
Hall, Tim.
Borden, Iain.
Routledge urban reader series ; no. 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230271
Call No.: HT151 .C5822 2003
Status: Available