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This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction -- 1. Understanding the City / John Eade / Christopher Mele -- pt. II Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City -- 2. Rescripting Cities with Difference / Kay Anderson / Jane M. Jacobs / Ruth Fincher -- 3. Public City / Sophie Watson -- 4. Social Justice and the South African City / David M. Smith -- 5. Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- pt. III Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development -- 6. Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global / Michael Peter Smith -- 7. Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells / Peter Marcuse -- 8. Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The LA School and the Understanding the Metropolitan Development / Mark Gottdiener -- pt. IV Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe -- 9. State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience / Chris Pickvance -- 10. China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond / Dorothy J. Solinger / Kam Wing Chan -- 11. Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia / J.S. Eades -- pt. V Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East -- 12. Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore / Smriti Srinivas -- 13. Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power / Shlomo Hasson -- 14. Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements / Paul M. Lubeck / Bryana Britts -- pt. VI Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States
Note continued: 15. Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development / Michael Indergaard -- 16. Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space / Alexander J. Reichl -- 17. Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies / Leonard Nevarez -- 18. Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood / Jan Lin.
edited by John Eade and Christopher Mele.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, ©2002