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"The lived experience of cities has long been defined by motion. As urban dwellers travel to work, home, and play they carve random or predictable pathways across neighbourhoods and districts. Circulation and the City investigates the urban capacity for movement, the city as a space of circulation, by taking into account not only the physical displacement of people but the circulation of cultures, things, and ideas. A series of rich case studies examine a range of topics, including neighbourhood gentrification, subway busking, yard sales, electronic waste, and language, refining the touchstone principle of circulation for the study of urban culture, both materially and theoretically. Contributors employ a variety of disciplinary approaches to create a richly varied picture of the multiple trajectories and effects of movement in the city. An engaging work that considers city planning, urban culture, and social behaviour, Circulation and the City adds a new dimension that revitalizes the ways we have commonly looked at -- and thought about -- the city."--Publisher's website.

Die soziologische Befassung mit der Stadt hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die von der Stadtsoziologie in den Blick genommenen Raumbezüge eröffnen wichtige Zugänge zum urbanen Leben der globalisierten (Post-)Moderne. Zur Disposition steht hier die Stadt mit ihren eigenen Spielregeln: ihren ethnischen und geschlechtsbezogenen Trennungslinien und vielfältigen Vergemeinschaftungsprozessen. Wie diese theoretisch einzuordnen sind, diskutiert der Band mit Bezug auf traditionelle und postmoderne Urbanitätskonzeptionen. Gegenwärtig formt insbesondere die Einbindung der Städte in die Globalisierung die urbane Gesellschaft. Die Interdependenz mit dem »globalen Strom« von Menschen, Gütern und Ideen erzeugt eine globalisierte Urbanität, die die Stadtsoziologie vor neue Herausforderungen stellt.

Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world; Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produce thought-provoking research that move the field in a more critical direction.

The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of twentieth-century urban development are relevant for studying the twenty-first-century metropolis.

A pesar de los avances logrados en relación al reconocimiento de derechos de las poblaciones LGBTI, persiste la discriminación y reproducción de imágenes que reiteran los estereotipos. Esta obra busca entender la conformación y construcción de las representaciones de la homosexualidad a través de una aproximación etnográfica con fuentes secundarias y entrevistas para comparar vlos discursos transnacionales compartidos con Bogota; y exponer algunas preguntas y reflexiones sobre estereotipos, la.

Sections include: 'New Approaches to Regional Development and Spatial Planning', 'Regional Developing and Spatial Planning in the Celtic Periphery' and 'Key Challenges for the Future'.

Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an unavoidable fact of everyday world affairs. This volume gathers a forum that integrates the extensive set of disciplinary dimensions to which the interdisciplinary concept of the global city can help to tackle the policy challenges of today's metropolises. Its chapters are drawn from viewpoints including the cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political dimensions of global cities. Tasked with providing a rejoinder to the global city scholarship from each of these perspectives, the authors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing these stances to the concept of the 'global city'. They rely not solely on theory but also on sample case studies either drawn from long-lived global cities such as New York, Shanghai and London, or emerging metropolises like Dubai, Cape Town and Sydney.

This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing neoliberal restructuring, and grapples with profound questions and challenging policy considerations about diversity, equity, and justice. A stimulant to debate in any undergraduate urban studies classroom, this book will inspire a new generation of urban social scholars