Key concepts in urban geography

Key Concepts in Urban Geography......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 10
Defining cities, defining the Urban......Page 11
Urban geography as a sub-discipline......Page 14
(1) Location and Movement......Page 16
(2) Constructions......Page 18
(3) Envisioning and Experience......Page 19
(4) Social and Political Organisation......Page 21
(5) Sites and Practices......Page 22
1 Location and Movement......Page 26
1.1 Centrality......Page 27
The return to the centre: revalorising the ‘zone-in-transition’......Page 31
Is centrality still important in cities?......Page 34
Further Reading......Page 35
Quantitative geography and transport geography......Page 36
The mobility paradigm......Page 37
Automobility and other mobilities......Page 39
Central propositions of the mobility paradigm......Page 42
Key Points......Page 43
1.3 Global Cities......Page 44
From world city to global city......Page 45
Cities and global economies......Page 47
Global city discourses......Page 48
Disease, religion, fashion, art......Page 49
Positionality......Page 51
Further Reading......Page 52
Transnationalism and the transnational......Page 53
Transnational cities, transnational social morphologies......Page 55
Transnational social fields......Page 56
Transnational economies......Page 57
Transnational political formations......Page 59
Key Points......Page 60
Further Reading......Page 61
2 Constructions......Page 62
2.1 Nature......Page 63
Imagining nature in the city......Page 64
Material urban natures......Page 66
‘More-than-human’ urban geographies......Page 68
Mutliplying urban ecologies......Page 69
Further Reading......Page 70
Questioning materiality......Page 71
Materialising capital......Page 73
Material urban cultures and practices......Page 75
Relational urban materialities......Page 76
Materiality in process......Page 77
Further Reading......Page 78
Cities, infrastructures and the nation-state......Page 79
Splintering urbanism......Page 82
Cyborg urbanism......Page 85
Key Points......Page 86
2.4 Architecture......Page 87
Landscapes of power......Page 89
Relational geographies of architecture......Page 91
Global and local architectural form: the skyscraper......Page 93
Everyday landscapes......Page 94
Further Reading......Page 96
3 Envisioning and Experience......Page 98
Defining diagrams......Page 99
Diagrams and urban geography......Page 101
Reanimating diagrams......Page 103
Making more of diagrams......Page 105
Further Reading......Page 107
3.2 Photography......Page 108
Photography and the city......Page 110
Screenscapes......Page 111
Location filming......Page 113
Further Reading......Page 115
Conceptualising bodies......Page 116
Embodying urban politics......Page 118
Embodying urban experience......Page 119
Affective bodies and urban space......Page 121
Bodies matter more than we think......Page 122
Further Reading......Page 123
Imaginative virtualities......Page 124
Digital virtualities......Page 125
Temporal virtualities......Page 127
Virtual urbanities......Page 129
Key Points......Page 130
3.5 Surveillance......Page 131
Cameras in the city......Page 132
Surveillance as biometric scanning......Page 134
Surveillance as entertainment......Page 135
The militarisation of urban space......Page 136
Key Points......Page 137
Further Reading......Page 138
4 Social and Political Organisation......Page 140
4.1 Segregation......Page 141
Measuring segregation......Page 142
Ghettos, slums and ethnic enclaves......Page 143
Suburbia, walls, gated communities: ghettos for the privileged......Page 146
Key Points......Page 149
4.2 Urban Politics......Page 150
Cities as political actors: structure and agency......Page 151
Place, identity and contestation......Page 153
Mayors and the imagined geographies of cities......Page 155
Further Reading......Page 156
4.3 Community......Page 157
What is community?......Page 158
Community lost......Page 159
Community saved, community liberated......Page 160
Imagined Community, Mass Communication, and Mass Consumption......Page 162
Community, Exclusion, and the Good City......Page 163
Passion, Light Sociality and Everyday Connections......Page 164
Key Points......Page 165
Further Reading......Page 166
5 Sites and Practices......Page 168
5.1 Consumption......Page 169
The commodity self......Page 170
Retailing as urban experience......Page 172
Foodscapes......Page 173
Further Reading......Page 176
Geographies of images......Page 177
Cultural economy and media production......Page 179
Media, audiences and place......Page 181
Travelling media: from Hollywood to the multiplex......Page 182
Further Reading......Page 185
5.3 Public Space......Page 186
Public space and the public sphere......Page 187
Consumption, urban spectacle, urban revanchism and the end of public space......Page 188
The end of public space? Really?......Page 192
Everyday urbanism, new urban publics......Page 193
Further Reading......Page 194
5.4 Commemoration......Page 195
Memory politics......Page 196
Pilgrimage......Page 198
Media events and ‘dark tourism’......Page 199
Key Points......Page 201
Further Reading......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 204
Author Index......Page 231
Subject Index......Page 237