Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives (Studies in Urban and Social Change)

UNDERSTANDING THE CITY......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 12
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 17
Preface......Page 19
Part I: Introduction......Page 21
1 Understanding the City......Page 23
Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City......Page 45
2 Rescripting Cities with Difference......Page 47
3 The Public City......Page 69
4 Social Justice and the South African City......Page 86
5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States......Page 102
Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development......Page 127
6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global......Page 129
7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells......Page 151
8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development......Page 179
Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe......Page 201
9 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience......Page 203
10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond......Page 224
11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia......Page 242
Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East......Page 265
12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore......Page 267
13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power......Page 298
14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements......Page 325
Part VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States......Page 357
15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development......Page 359
16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space......Page 383
17 Ef.cacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies......Page 399
18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood......Page 417
Index......Page 439