{"product_id":"the-blackwell-city-reader-isbn-9781405189828","title":"The Blackwell City Reader","description":"Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell City Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOrganized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the City\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Materialities 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Introducing Materialities 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Great Towns 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Friedrich Engels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e William Cronon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Harvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eManuel Castells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllen J. Scott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsh Amin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSujata Patel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Latham and Derek P. McCormack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Mobilities 95\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Introducing Mobilities 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorg Simmel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichel de Certeau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Arcades Project 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaskia Sassen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArjun Appadurai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Connections 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Urry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Driving in the City 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNigel Thrift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eZhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Division and Difference 169\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Introducing Division and Difference 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Julius Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeil Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the “Purely Atomic” Individual 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichel Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIris Marion Young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 City A\/Genders 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSophie Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Chauncey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Public Realm 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Sennett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Jacobs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy N. Chen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSetha M. Low\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSharon Zukin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith R. Walkowitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFranco Moretti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Writing the City 317\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Donald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Urban Politics and Planning 331\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Growth of the City 339\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErnest W. Burgess\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe Corbusier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília 355\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Holston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony D. King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward W. Soja\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Hull Mollenkopf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan S. Fainstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” 411\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeil Brenner and Nik Theodore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Friedmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 433\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eGary Bridge\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eReason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eGentrification in a Global Context\u003c\/i\u003e (with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the City\u003c\/i\u003e (with Sophie Watson, 2000).  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Watson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of, among other publications, \u003ci\u003eCity Publics: The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), co-author of \u003ci\u003eMarkets as Sites for Social Interaction: Spaces of Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e (with David Studdert, 2006), and \u003ci\u003eSurface City: Sydney at the Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e (with Peter Murphy, 1997), and co-editor (with Katherine Gibson) of \u003ci\u003ePostmodern Cities and Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eMetropolis Now\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e  Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, this new edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell City Reader\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a wide range of essential readings relating to the analysis and experience of cities across the globe. Selections are carefully gathered from a variety of academic disciplines ranging from architecture, sociology, and literature to cultural studies, philosophy, and even psychoanalysis to provide the most diverse perspectives and in-depth coverage of the field. The new edition incorporates major developments in the study of materialities and mobilities, two areas at the heart of many contemporary debates; it also features enhanced coverage on non-Western cities that reflect recent growth trends, especially in Asia, China, and India, making it the most international reader of its kind.  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e combines established and novel readings from a wide range of theoretical perspectives and geographical locales to provide an indispensable source for the most up-to-date thinking on cities of today and tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e  “This new edition covers so much terrain of the urban scholarship that it is truly a very comprehensive and interdisciplinary reader for any course on cities and urban studies.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eXiangming Chen, Trinity College\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“A rich and varied collection of important articles on cities. Selections range from older classic pieces to more recent insights, and the book provides a nice mix of European and American views of cities, whilst including writings about other areas of the world, especially China. Altogether this is an excellent and exciting collection of major writings.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eAnthony M. Orum, University of Illinois\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The second edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell City Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is even better than the first – and that was a milestone. The \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e covers the full spectrum of approaches to the city concisely but with real authority. 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