| Description |
383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Urban studies |
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Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
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| Contents |
Thick space : approaches to metropolitanism / Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko, and Georg Wagner-Kyora -- Metropolises : history, concepts, methodologies / Heinz Reif -- Deconstructing "metropolis" : critical reflections on a European concept / Ignacio Farías and Susanne Stemmler -- Explanans vs. explanandum, freedom vs. cohesion : the conceptual structure of urban sociology / Jan Kemper -- The significance of the metropolis / Richard Rodger -- Metropolitan research from a transatlantic perspective : differences, similarities, and conceptual diffusion / Margit Mayer -- History, theory, and the metropolis / Thomas Bender -- An endless flow of machines to serve the city : infrastructural assemblages and the quest for the metropolis / Stefan Höhne -- Planning modernism : growing the organic city in the 20th century / Harold L. Piatt -- Layered landscapes : parks and gardens in the metropolis / Sonja Dümpelmann -- Berlin street life : scenes and scenarios / Wolfgang Kaschuba -- Metropolis in transformation : cinematic topologies of urban space / Laura Frahm -- Women and the modern metropolis / Despina Stratigakos -- The street-prison symbiosis : urban segregation and popular Black fiction in 21st century America / Kristina Graaff -- Urban ethnicity, world city, and the hookah : the potential of thick-thin descriptions in urban anthropology / Alexa Färber -- The global, imperial metropolis : ideas from 1873 Berlin / Tim Opitz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Metropolitan areas.
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City planning -- Social aspects.
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Urbanization -- Social aspects.
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Cities and towns -- Research.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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| Author |
Brantz, Dorothee, editor
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Disko, Sasha, editor
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Wagner-Kyora, Georg, editor
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| ISBN |
9783837620436 |
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3837620433 |
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