Thick Space : Approaches to Metropolitanism /

Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brantz, Dorothee (Editor ), Disko, Sasha (Editor ), Wagner-Kyora, Georg (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2012]
Colección:Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
Temas:
Metropolitan areas.
City planning > Social aspects.
Urbanization > Social aspects.
Cities and towns > Research.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanisation > Aspect social.
Villes > Recherche.
Écologie urbaine.
urban environments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Metropole
Stadtforschung
Urbanität
Stadtsoziologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Theory of Urban Studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism / Brantz, Dorothee ; Disko, Sasha ; Wagner-Kyora, Georg
  • Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies / Reif, Heinz
  • Deconstructing "Metropolis": Critical Reflections on a European Concept / Farías, Ignacio ; Stemmler, Susanne
  • Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology / Kemper, Jan
  • The Significance of the Metropolis / Rodger, Richard
  • Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion / Mayer, Margit
  • History, Theory, and the Metropolis / Bender, Thomas
  • An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis / Höhne, Stefan
  • Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20 / Platt, Harold L.
  • Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis / Dümpelmann, Sonja
  • Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios / Kaschuba, Wolfgang
  • Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space / Frahm, Laura
  • Women and the Modern Metropolis / Stratigakos, Despina
  • The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21 / Graaff, Kristina
  • Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology / Färber, Alexa
  • The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin / Opitz, Tim
  • Contributors.

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