Thick space : approaches to metropolitanism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brantz, Dorothee (Editor), Disko, Sasha (Editor), Wagner-Kyora, Georg (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bielefeld : Transcript, [2012]
Subjects:	Metropolitan areas. City planning > Social aspects. Urbanization > Social aspects. Cities and towns > Research. Urban ecology (Sociology)

Table of Contents:

Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism / Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko, and Georg Wagner-Kyora
Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies / Heinz Reif
Deconstructing "Metropolis:" Critical Reflections on a European Concept / Ignacio Farías and Susanne Stemmler
Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology / Jan Kemper
The Significance of the Metropolis / Richard Rodger
Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion / Margit Mayer
History, Theory, and the Metropolis / Thomas Bender
An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis / Stefan Hohne
Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20th Century / Harold L. Piatt
Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis / Sonja Dümpelmann
Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios / Wolfgang Kaschuba
Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space / Laura Frahm
Women and the Modern Metropolis / Despina Stratigakos
The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21st Century America / Kristina Graaff
Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology / Alexa Färber
The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin / Tim Opitz.