{"product_id":"the-blackwell-city-reader-isbn-9781405189835","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  Acknowledgments.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Materialities:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroducing Materialities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.. The Great Towns (Frederick Engels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (William Cronon).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis (David Harvey).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.. An Introduction to the Information Age (Manuel Castells).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form (Allen J. Scott).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities (Ash Amin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: the Mega-City of a Poor Country (Sujata Patel).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale (Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies (Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Mobilities:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroducing Mobilities10. The Metropolis and Mental Life (Georg Simmel).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Practice of Everyday Life (Michel de Certeau).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Arcades Project (Walter Benjamin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Global City: Introducing a Concept (Sakia Sassen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California (Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Arjun Appadurai)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Connections (John Urry).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Driving in the City (Nigel Thrift).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor (Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Division and Difference:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroducing Division and Difference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The Continuing Causes of Segregation (Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy (William Julius Wilson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Mike Davis).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City (Neil Smith).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the \"Purely Atomic\" Individual (Don Mitchell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Michel Foucault).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference (Iris Marion Young).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. City A\/Genders (Sophie Watson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: the Village and Harlem (George Chauncey).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Urban Publics and Urban Cultures:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. The Public Realm (Richard Sennett).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life (Nancy N. Chen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Spatializing Culture: the Social Construction. of Public Space in Costa Rica (Setha M. Low).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (Sharon Zukin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Judith R. Walkowitz).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality (Franco Moretti).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Writing the City (Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces (James Donald).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Urban Politics and Planning:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroducing Urban Politics and Planning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. The Growth of the City (Ernest W. Burgess).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. The City of Tomorrow and its Planning (Le Corbusier).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília (James Holston).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy (Anthony D. King).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis (Edward W. Soja).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. How to Study Urban Political Power (John Hull Mollenkopf).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. New Directions in Planning Theory (Susan S. Fainstein).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. Cities and the Geographies of \"Actually Existing Neoliberalism (Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future (John Friedmann).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China (Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\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. 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As a result, it is a vital introduction to thinking about cities in a time when global problems and urban problems have become effectively interchangeable.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eNigel Thrift, University of Warwick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990168584421,"sku":"NP9781405189835","price":89.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405189835.jpg?v=1761786768","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-blackwell-city-reader-isbn-9781405189835","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}