The Promise of the City : Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought /

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The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tajbakhsh, Kian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2000]
Temas:
Marxian school of sociology.
Sociology, Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
academic.
agency.
analysis.
bureaucratic.
city life.
city living.
critical theory.
critique.
david harvey.
economics.
economy.
feminism.
identity.
interdisciplinary.
ira katznelson.
literary analysis.
manuel castells.
marxist.
poststructuralism.
scholarly.
social studies.
space.
structure.
urban identity.
urban life.
urban living.
urban theory.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Identity, Structure, and the Spaces of the City
  • 1. Marxian Class Analysis, Essentialism, and the Problem of Urban Identity
  • 2. Beyond the Functionalist Bias in Urban Theory
  • 3. Toward the Historicity and the Contingency of Identity
  • 4. Difference, Democracy, and the City
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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