John Rennie Short

Urban Theory

A Critical Assessment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic / Macmillan Education
• 2nd 2014 edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781137382641
• ISBN-10: 1137382643
• Artikelnr.: 41376857

Autorenporträt

John Rennie Short is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: THEORIZING THE CITY IN TIME 1. Theorizing The
Premodern City 2. Theorizing The Modern City 3. Theorizing The Postmodern
City PART II: THEORIZING THE CITY IN SPACE 4. The City As Network 5. The
Economic City 6. The City Of Difference 7. The Political City 8. The
Everyday City 9. The City And Nature 10. Urban Imaginaries 11. Marketing
The City 12. The Future Of Urban Theory: Directions And Intersections.