Blackwell Companions to Geography: The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Editors: Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $225.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $337.50
ISBN: 978-1-40-518981-1
Category: Geography
Image Count: 79
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I City Materialities
  • 1 Reflections on Materialities
  • 2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets
  • 3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis
  • 4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century
  • 5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad
  • 6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis
  • 7 Objects and the City
  • 8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore
  • 9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings
  • 10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon
  • 11 The New Military Urbanism
  • 12 The City's New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market
  • 13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform
  • Part II City Mobilities
  • 14 Reflections on Mobilities
  • 15 “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control
  • 16 Transnationality and the City
  • 17 Migrants Making Technology Markets
  • 18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City
  • 19 Nomadic Cities
  • 20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City
  • 21 Disease and Infection in the City
  • 22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space
  • 23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space
  • Part III City Affect
  • 24 Reflections on Affect
  • 25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City
  • 26 The Future of New York's Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11
  • 27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China
  • 28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong
  • 29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City
  • 30 City Life and the Senses
  • 31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies
  • 32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces
  • Part IV City Publics and Cultures
  • 33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures
  • 34 Reflections on the Public Realm
  • 35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century?
  • 36 “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference
  • 37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho
  • 38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s
  • 39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City
  • 40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore
  • 41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City
  • 42 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith
  • 43 Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle
  • Part V City Divisions and Differences
  • 44 Reflections on Division and Difference
  • 45 The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
  • 46 Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities
  • 47 Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City
  • 48 Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary
  • 49 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance
  • 50 Gentrification of the City
  • 51 The Homosexuality of Cities
  • 52 Gendering Urban Space
  • 53 Nights in the Global City
  • Part VI City Politics and Planning
  • 54 Reflections on Politics and Planning
  • 55 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World
  • 56 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning
  • 57 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below
  • 58 Shaping Good Cities and Citizens
  • 59 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era
  • 60 Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China's Cities
  • 61 Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China's Urbanism in the Making
  • 62 Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City
  • 63 Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies
  • 64 Making Up Global Urban Policies
  • 65 Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed?