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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Tajbakhsh, Kian, 1962-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
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.