Suchergebnisse

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 -- 12. The City's New "Trinity" in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market / Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker -- 13. Residence Through Revolution and Reform / Ray Forrest -- Part II: City Mobilities. -- 14. Reflections on Mobilities / Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson -- 15. "Nothing Gained by Overcrowding": The History and Politics of Urban Population Control / Andrew Ross -- 16. Transnationality and the City / Nina Glick Schiller -- 17. Migrants Making Technology Markets / Tyler Rooker -- 18. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City / Saskia Sassen -- 19. Nomadic Cities / David Pinder -- 20. Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City / Francis Dodsworth -- 21. Disease and Infection in the City / Simon Carter -- 22. Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space / Daniel J. Walkowitz -- 23. Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space / Brian Ladd -- Part III: City Affect. -- 24. Reflections on Affect / Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson -- 25. Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City / Steve Pile

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.