Simon Parker

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

Encountering the City

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another. From the foundations of modern urban theory to the writings of contemporary urban theorists such this book traces the key developments in the idea of the city over more than a century. Individual chapters explore investigative studies of the great metropolis to the contemporary urban research, along with alternative approaches to the industrial city, ranging from the Garden City Movement to 'the new urbanism'. The volume also considers the impact of new information and communication technologies, and the growing trend towards disaggregated urban networks, all of which raise important questions about viability and physical and social identity of the conventional townscape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 188mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780415520706
• ISBN-10: 0415520703
• Artikelnr.: 41611841

Autorenporträt

Simon Parker is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Research at the University of York, UK. His research primarily focuses on urban studies and urban theory, socio-spatial informatics, the politics of asylum and immigration, and comparative European politics (with particular reference to Italy). He is the author of Cities, Politics and Power (Routledge 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Encountering the City 2.The Foundations of Urban Theory: Weber, Simmel,
Benjamin and Lefebvre 3. The City Described: Social Reform and the
Empirical Tradition in Classic Urban Studies 4.Visions of Utopia: From the
Garden City to the New Urbanism 5. Between the Suburb and the Ghetto: Urban
Studies and the Search for Community In Britain and the United States After
the Second World War 6. Urban Fortunes: Making Sense of the Capitalist City
7. The Contested City: Politics, People and Power 8. The Majority Urban
World: the Growth and Development of Cities in the Global South 9. Cities
Under Stress: the Uneven Geographies of Urban Deprivation 10. From Pillar
to Post: Culture Representation and Difference 11. The Information City:
Linking the Virtual and Material Urban Worlds 12. Putting the City in its
Place: Urban Futures and the Future of Urban Theory