The urban moment
Subtitle: cosmopolitan essays on the late-20th-century city
By: Robert A. Beauregard, Sophie Body-Gendrot, editors.
Contributors: Beauregard, Robert A.; Body-Gendrot, Sophie.
Series: Urban affairs annual reviews -- v. 49
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Cities and towns; City and town life; Civilization, Modern -- 1950-; Postmodernism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagined cities, engaged citizens -- Sophie Body-Gendrot and Robert A. Beauregard; title: Invitation to a postmodern urbanism -- Steven Flusty and Michael Dear; title: Crossing Cybercities : urban regions and the cyberspace matrix -- M. Christine Boyer; title: Post-city challenge -- Thierry Paquot; title: Whose city is it? : globalization and the formation of new claims -- Saskia Sassen; title: Transnationalism and the city -- Michael Peter Smith; title: Urban world through a South African prism -- Alan Mabin; title: City for whom? : transients and public life in the second-generation metropolis -- Guido Martinotti; title: Which new-urbanism? : New York City and the revanchist 1990s -- Neil Smith; title: Urban movements and urban theory in the late-20th-century city -- Margit Mayer; title: (Promised) scenes of urbanity -- Christian Ruby; title: Can we make the cities we want? -- Susan S. Fainstein; title: Spaces of democracy-- Richard Sennett.