Thick Space

Approaches to Metropolitanism
Ed. by Dorothee Brantz,Sasha Disko and Georg Wagner-Kyora

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.

Produktdetails

• Urban Studies
• Verlag: transcript / transcript Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 148mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9783837620436
• ISBN-10: 3837620433
• Artikelnr.: 34549024

Autorenporträt

Brantz, DorotheeDorothee Brantz is a professor of urban environmental history and the director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include urban environmental history, the history of war and peace, and the different temporalities of the urban.

Wagner-Kyora, GeorgGeorg Wagner-Kyora is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).

Rezensionen

Reviewed in: ORLIS, 3 (2014) http://blog.byhistorie.dk,01.07.2014, Mikkel Thelle Urban Studies, 52/5 (2015), David Wachsmuth