{"product_id":"the-new-blackwell-companion-to-the-city-isbn-9781405189811","title":"The New Blackwell Companion to The City","description":"This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe most interdisciplinary collection of its kind\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Bridge and Sophie Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I City Materialities 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Reflections on Materialities 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Bridge and Sophie Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis 26\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Rennie Short\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century 38\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmrita Shah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis 57\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatthew Gandy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Objects and the City 66\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarvey Molotch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings 96\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Droege\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The New Military Urbanism 121\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Graham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The City’s New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 134\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform 142\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRay Forrest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II City Mobilities 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Reflections on Mobilities 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Bridge and Sophie Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control 169\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Ross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Transnationality and the City 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNina Glick Schiller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Migrants Making Technology Markets 193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTyler Rooker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City 210\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSaskia Sassen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Nomadic Cities 221\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Pinder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City 235\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrancis Dodsworth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Disease and Infection in the City 245\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSimon Carter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space 255\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaniel J. Walkowitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space 265\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian Ladd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III City Affect 275\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Reflections on Affect 277\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Bridge and Sophie Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City 288\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteve Pile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Future of New York’s Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9\/11 304\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMax Page\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China 317\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephanie Hemelryk Donald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai’s Cinematic Hong Kong 327\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristoph Lindner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLesley Caldwell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 City Life and the Senses 347\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Urry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies 357\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbdouMaliq Simone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces 367\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV City Publics and Cultures 377\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures 379\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Bridge and Sophie Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Reflections on the Public Realm 390\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Sennett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century? 398\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Keith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference 407\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKurt Iveson and Ruth Fincher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho 419\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJudith R. Walkowitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s 431\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrank Mort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City 442\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRob Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore 452\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLily Kong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City 463\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSetha Low\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith 476\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Paul Jones III\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle 488\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Rossiter and Katherine Gibson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V City Divisions and Differences 499\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Reflections on Division and Difference 501\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Bridge and Sophie Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu 511\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMike Savage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities 521\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJenny Robinson and Sue Parnell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City 532\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeremy Seekings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary 547\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAto Quayson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance 561\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSharon Zukin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 Gentrification of the City 571\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Slater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 The Homosexuality of Cities 586\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulie Abraham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 52 Gendering Urban Space 596\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJessica Ellen Sewell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 Nights in the Global City 606 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSophie Body-Gendrot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI City Politics and Planning 617\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 54 Reflections on Politics and Planning 619\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Bridge and Sophie Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World 631\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAsh Amin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning 643\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Marcuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below 656\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnthony Vidler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 Shaping Good Cities and Citizens 667\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEvelyn S. Ruppert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 679\u003cbr\u003e Edward W. Soja\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60 Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China’s Cities 690\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Friedmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61 Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China’s Urbanism in the Making 701\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFulong Wu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62 Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City 713\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoger Keil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63 Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies 726\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKevin Ward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64 Making Up Global Urban Policies 738\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAllan Cochrane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65 Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed? 747\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatrick Le Galès\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 759\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“This collection of 65 academic essays covers everything from the role of dance in shaping cities to race and class in South Africa to the application of military techniques to city planning … The destructive effects of global capital and neo-liberal politics are much explored. Throwing out striking insights and facts... [it offers] useful and necessary responses to significant changes in the world.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “This new volume is in six sections, each introduced by an editorial overview… The individual chapters range from theoretical politics and sociology to the practicalities of maintaining high rise housing. Films and novels provide examples in many sections. Sometimes a chapter can be a surprise … there is something new and something very familiar in each … Geographers and sociologists will get much from this book, and there is material for architects and politicians. There is also something in the book for the ordinary city dweller.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Of great interest to upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of urban studies, as well as those in urban planning, urban sociology, and urban geography ... Recommended.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \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\u003eThe Blackwell City Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (with Sophie Watson, second edition 2010).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Watson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author  of \u003ci\u003eCity Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), co-author of \u003ci\u003eSurface City: Sydney at the Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePostmodern Cities and Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eMetropolis Now\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), and \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell City Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (with Gary Bridge, second edition 2010), among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e  Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexity and diversity and the processes and structures that bind them together reach out across the globe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThis volume considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. Whilst considering established themes, such as urban divisions and differences, publics and cultures, politics and planning, the \u003ci\u003eNew Blackwell Companion to the City\u003c\/i\u003e also addresses new debates on subjects like materiality, mobilities, and environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncorporating international examples, this book explores the economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues that flow from and within the modern city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990295036133,"sku":"NP9781405189811","price":252.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405189811.jpg?v=1761787242","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-new-blackwell-companion-to-the-city-isbn-9781405189811","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}