Titre et auteur:

Readings in urban theory / edited by Susan S. Fainstein and Scott Campbell.

Édition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

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

Description:

xi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Theories of urban development and their implications for policy and planning / Susan S. Fainstein and Scott Campbell -- Part I. The changing urban and regional system : Introduction -- 1. Bourgeois utopias: visions of suburbia / Robert Fishman -- 2. Cities in a world economy / Saskia Sassen -- 3. New industrial cities? the four faces of Silicon Valley / Mia Gray, Elyse Golob, Ann Markusen, and Sam Ock Park -- 4. Virtual ecology: a brief environmental history of Silicon Valley / Aaron W. Sachs -- 5. Regulation theory, post-Fordism and urban politics / Joe Painter -- 6. The changing world economy and urban restructuring / Susan S. Fainstein. -- Part II: Race and inequality : Introduction -- 7. From the metropolis to globalization: the dialectics of race and urban form / William W. Goldsmith -- 8. Poverty, social rights, and the quality of citizenship / Roger Lawson and William Julius Wilson -- 9. Race, class, and segregation: discourses about African Americans / Norman Fainstein. -- Part III: Redevelopment and urban transformation : Introduction -- 10. The city as a growth machine / John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch -- 11. Partnership and the pursuit of the private city / Gregory D. Squires -- 12. Gentrification, the frontier, and the restructuring of urban space / Neil Smith -- 13. Promoting tourism in US cities / Dennis R. Judd. -- Part IV: Culture, design, and urban form : Introduction -- 14. Fantasy city: pleasure and profit in the postmodern metropolis / John Hannigan -- 15. Whose culture? Whose city? / Sharon Zukin -- 16. See you in Disneyland / Michael Sorkin -- 17. The new urbanism / Douglas Kelbaugh -- 18. Urban or suburban? / Carol Burns, Robert Campbell, Andres Duany, Jerold Kayden and Alex Krieger -- 19. Social justice, postmodernism, and the city / David Harvey.

Résumé:

This collection of readings examines the interaction of economy, culture, politics, policy and space within the US and UK. For the second edition, more than half of the readings are new and the introduction and section prefaces have been revised.

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0631223444 (hbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780631223443 (hbk. ; acid-free paper)
0631223452 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780631223450 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Sujet:

Cities and towns.
Urban economics.
Villes.
Économie urbaine.
cities.
Stadtstruktur
Stadt
Steden.
Cities and towns Great Britain.
Cities and towns United States.
Urban policy.

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Vedettes secondaires:

Fainstein, Susan S.
Campbell, Scott, 1958-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 220189
Cote: HT151 .R35 2002
Statut: Disponible