The Promise of the City
Subtitle: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780520222786
Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; Sociology, Urban; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Social Theory; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Marxian school of sociology
First sentence: In the Introduction, I showed how our conceptions of identities and the city are related in important ways, proposing that conceiving of the urban in terms of "spacing" is useful in understanding the idea of the hybridity of identities.