A Companion to the City

A Companion to the City......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 11
List of Illustrations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 17
Part I Imagining Cities......Page 21
1 City Imaginaries......Page 23
2 Three Urban Discourses......Page 34
3 Putting Cities First: Remapping the Origins of Urbanism......Page 42
4 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below......Page 51
5 The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination, and Media Technologies......Page 62
6 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City......Page 71
7 The City as Imperial Centre: Imagining London in Two Caribbean Novels......Page 81
8 Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams......Page 91
9 Contested Imaginings of the City: City as Locus of Status, Capitalist Accumulation, and Community: Competing Cultures of Southeast Asian Societies......Page 103
Part II The Economy and the City......Page 115
10 City Economies......Page 117
11 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities......Page 131
12 Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis......Page 146
13 Monocentric to Policentric: New Urban Forms and Old Paradigms......Page 157
14 Ups and Downs in the Gobal City: London and New York at the Millennium......Page 171
15 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City......Page 184
16 Turbulence and Sedimentation in the Labor Markets of Late Twentieth-Century Metropoles......Page 197
17 Informational Cities: Beyond Dualism and Toward Reconstruction......Page 208
18 Diaspora Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development......Page 223
19 Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City......Page 240
20 Urban Transformation in the Capitals of the Baltic States: Innovation, Culture and Finance......Page 253
Part III Cities of Division and Difference......Page 265
21 City Differences......Page 267
22 Postcolonialism, Representation, and the City......Page 277
23 Cities in Quarters......Page 286
24 Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and the European City......Page 298
25 Working out the Urban: Gender Relations and the City......Page 308
26 The Sexual Geography of the City......Page 323
27 From the Other Side of the Tracks: Dual Cities, Third Spaces, and the Urban Uncanny in Contemporary Discourses of \"Race\" and Class......Page 332
28 Gentrification, Postindustrialism, and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities......Page 347
29 Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul......Page 358
30 Value Conflicts, Identity Construction, and Urban Change......Page 370
Part IV Public Cultures and Everyday Space......Page 383
31 City Publics......Page 385
32 Reflections on the Public Realm......Page 396
33 City Life and the Senses......Page 404
34 With Child to See Any Strange Thing: Everyday Life in the City......Page 414
35 Walter Benjamin, Urban Studies, and the Narratives of City Life......Page 426
36 \"X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive?\"......Page 446
37 Walking and Performing \"the City\": A Melbourne Chronicle......Page 453
38 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith......Page 464
39 Wonderful, Terrible: Everyday Life in Bangkok......Page 476
40 Street Boys in Yogyakarta: Social and Spatial Exclusion in the Public Spaces of the City......Page 488
41 Cyberspace and the City: The \"Virtual City\" in Europe......Page 505
Part V Urban Politics and Urban Interventions......Page 519
42 City Interventions......Page 521
43 Planning in Relational Space and Time: Responding to New Urban Realities......Page 533
44 The Social Construction of Urban Policy......Page 547
45 Urban Planning in the Late Twentieth Century......Page 559
46 Varied Legacies of Modernism in Urban Planning......Page 571
47 The Environment of the City... or the Urbanization of Nature......Page 583
48 Power and Urban Politics Revisited: The Uses and Abuses of North American Urban Political Economy......Page 597
49 Social Justice and the City: Equity, Cohesion and the Politics of Space......Page 607
50 Property Markets and the Production of Inequality......Page 615
51 The Politics of Universal Provision of Public Housing......Page 625
52 Reintegrating the Apartheid City? Urban Policy and Urban Restructuring in Durban......Page 633
Index......Page 646