The Blackwell City Reader
Title | The Blackwell City Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Bridge |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2010-03-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1405189835 |
Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City
The Blackwell City Reader
Title | The Blackwell City Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Bridge |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2002-11-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780631225133 |
At a time when cities are firmly back on the agenda, this Reader brings together work by prestigious academics, literary figures, political economists, geographers, film theorists, urban planners and gender theorists in order to challenge established ways of thinking about urban life. Develops a new framework for interpreting cities. Includes a variety of voices from literary figures to academics. Takes a global approach, looking at western and non-western cities. Combines canonical texts with contemporary theories on urban life. Can be used alongside 'A Companion to the City' (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).
The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader
Title | The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Ash Amin |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0470777370 |
This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy. Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy. Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main strands and history of the cultural economy approach. Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms culture or economy. Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both a substantive task and a valuable contribution to knowledge. Material is organised around different links in the value chain.
Reason in the City of Difference
Title | Reason in the City of Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Bridge |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Pragmatism |
ISBN | 9780415287661 |
This book re-establishes a notion of conscious agency in our understanding of urban life. Using empirical examples and drawing on pragmatist ideas of 'experience' and rationality, this text offers a new, alternative reading of the city.
A Companion to the City
Title | A Companion to the City PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Bridge |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 659 |
Release | 2008-06-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0470707526 |
A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. Indispensable companion for students of the City. Multidisciplinary approach of interest across several fields. Includes contributions from major scholars in the field.
The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory
Title | The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Ida Susser |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2002-01-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780631219330 |
This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his theoretical methods.
Cinema and the City
Title | Cinema and the City PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Shiel |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2011-07-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 144439973X |
This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.