Understanding The City Contemporary And Future Perspectives John Eade by John Eade, Christopher Mele 9780470693582, 9780631224068, 0470693584, 0631224068 instant download after payment.

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.Content:
Chapter 1 Understanding the City (pages 3–23): John Eade and Christopher Mele
Chapter 2 Rescripting Cities with Difference (pages 27–48): Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs and Kay Anderson
Chapter 3 The Public City (pages 49–65): Sophie Watson
Chapter 4 Social Justice and the South African City (pages 66–81): David M. Smith
Chapter 5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States (pages 82–106): Sophie Body?Gendrot
Chapter 6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global (pages 109–130): Michael Peter Smith
Chapter 7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo?Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells1 (pages 131–158): Peter Marcuse
Chapter 8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development (pages 159–180): Mark Gottdiener
Chapter 9 State Socialism, Post?Socialism and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience (pages 183–203): Chris Pickvance
Chapter 10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond (pages 204–221): Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan
Chapter 11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia (pages 222–243): J. S. Eades
Chapter 12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore (pages 247–277): Smriti Srinivas
Chapter 13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power (pages 278–304): Shlomo Hasson
Chapter 14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements (pages 305–335): Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts
Chapter 15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development (pages 339–362): Michael Indergaard
Chapter 16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space (pages 363–378): Alexander J. Reichl
Chapter 17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies (pages 379–396): Leonard Nevarez
Chapter 18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood (pages 397–418): Jan Lin