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1 online resource (1645 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cover; Half title page; Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Geography; Title page; Copyright page; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: City Materialities; Chapter 1 Reflections on Materialities; Chapter 2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets; Chapter 3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis; Chapter 4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad; Chapter 6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis; Chapter 7 Objects and the City |
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Chapter 8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in SingaporeChapter 9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings; Chapter 10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon; Chapter 11 The New Military Urbanism; Chapter 12 The City's New "Trinity" in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market; Chapter 13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform; Part II: City Mobilities; Chapter 14 Reflections on Mobilities; Chapter 15 "Nothing Gained by Overcrowding": The History and Politics of Urban Population Control |
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Chapter 16 Transnationality and the CityChapter 17 Migrants Making Technology Markets; Chapter 18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City; Chapter 19 Nomadic Cities; Chapter 20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City; Chapter 21 Disease and Infection in the City; Chapter 22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space; Chapter 23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space; Part III: City Affect; Chapter 24 Reflections on Affect; Chapter 25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City |
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Chapter 26 The Future of New York's Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11Chapter 27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China; Chapter 28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong; Chapter 29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City; Chapter 30 City Life and the Senses; Chapter 31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies; Chapter 32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces; Part IV: City Publics and Cultures; Chapter 33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures |
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Chapter 34 Reflections on the Public RealmChapter 35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century?; Chapter 36 "Just Diversity" in the City of Difference; Chapter 37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho; Chapter 38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s; Chapter 39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City; Chapter 40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore; Chapter 41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City |
| Summary |
This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kindProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the fieldUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadlyIncludes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cities and towns.
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Cities and towns -- Cross-cultural studies
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cities.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Cities and towns
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Stadtgeografie
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Stadtplanung
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Stadt
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Sozialwissenschaften
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Steden.
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Stadscultuur.
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Ciutats.
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Anàlisi transcultural.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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Handboeken (vorm)
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Llibres electrònics.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bridge, Gary
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Watson, Sophie
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| ISBN |
9781444395112 |
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1444395114 |
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