Encountering the City
Subtitle: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781472432575
Subjects: Urbanization; Cities and towns; City and town life
Description: 'Encountering the City' provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically, and analytically.