Title: The new Blackwell companion to the city /
Authors: Bridge, Gary.; Watson, Sophie.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell,
Year: 2011
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.; Cities and towns; Cities and towns Cross-cultural studies.
Abstract: "This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind. Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly. Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities."--
Contents: Part I: City Materialities: 1. Reflections on Materialities / Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson -- 2. Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets / Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner -- 3. The Liquid City of Megalopolis / John Rennie Short -- 4. Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century / Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe -- 5. Ethnography of an Indian City:Ahmedabad / Amrita Shah -- 6. Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis / Matthew Gandy -- 7. Objects and the City / Harvey Molotch -- 8. Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore / Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns -- 9. The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings / Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw -- 10. One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon / Peter Droege -- 11. The New Military Urbanism / Stephen Graham --^