The Promise of the City : Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought /
This title proposes a theoretical grounding for the study of cities and the people who live and work in them, using a threefold, interdisciplinary approach to urban identities linking agency, space, and structure.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2001.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Marxian class analysis, essentialism, and the problem of urban identity
- 2. Beyond the functionalist bias in urban theory
- 3. Toward the historicity and contingency of identity
- 4. Difference, democracy, and the city.