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The new Blackwell companion to the city /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.