Unruly Cities? : Order Disorder (Understanding Cities)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY COURSE TEAM......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
1 Introduction: living with difference......Page 17
2.1 IS CITY LIFE RULED BY DISORDER?......Page 21
2.2 HARLEM: ISOLATED GHETTO OR GLOBAL CITY?......Page 26
3.1 SUBURBAN ESCAPISM: HAVEN OR HELL?......Page 34
3.2 IDEAL HOMES: PARADISE OR PRISON?......Page 36
3.3 WHOSE SUBURBS?......Page 40
4 Conclusion......Page 42
References......Page 43
READING 1A Claire Etcherelli: from Elise or the Real Life......Page 45
READING 1B Sharon Zukin: ‘125th Street’......Page 48
READING 1C Roger Silverstone: ‘Introduction to Visions of Suburbia’......Page 55
READING 1D Deborah Chambers: ‘Women’s experiences and negotiations of suburban planning’......Page 56
CHAPTER 2 Urban ‘disorders’......Page 60
1 Introduction......Page 61
2 Imaging order and disorder......Page 63
3 Whose disorder?......Page 68
4.1 ‘MODERNIZING’ ISTANBUL: ORDERING THE DISORDERLY......Page 70
4.2 BRITAIN’S ‘DANGEROUS’ PLACES......Page 76
4.3 MANCHESTER: ‘GUNCHESTER’ OR ‘MADCHESTER’?......Page 78
4.4 MUNICIPALIZING SUBURBIA: RE-ORDERING POST-WAR GLASGOW......Page 80
5 ‘Disorderly people: disorderly places’......Page 86
5.1 THE URBAN ‘UNDERCLASS’......Page 87
5.2 THE ‘DISORDERLY’ SHANTY TOWN......Page 89
References......Page 92
READING 2A S.Branford and B.Kucinski: ‘Profile: Benedita da Silva’......Page 94
the 1940s to the 1990s’ .........Page 95
unavoidable evil?’ .........Page 98
READING 2D Larissa Lomnitz: ‘The social and economic organization of a Mexican shanty-town’......Page 102
References......Page 106
1 Introduction......Page 107
2 Safety, insecurity and street life: the company of strangers and ‘eyes on the street’......Page 109
3.1 SEPARATION AND DISTANCE: PARIS AND RIO DE JANEIRO......Page 112
4 Building walls II: postmodern cantonments......Page 117
4.1 GATED COMMUNITIES AND THE PRODUCTION OF DEFENSIBLE SPACE......Page 118
4.2 THE FORTIFIED TOWERS OF THE SHOPPING MALL......Page 123
5 Building walls III: intensified circuits of policing and surveillance......Page 125
5.1 ASSERTIVE BEAT POLICING: FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK AND BACK AGAIN......Page 126
5.2 ELECTRONIC ‘EYES ON THE STREET’: HYPER-OR POST-PANOPTICISM?......Page 128
6 Conclusion: the paradoxes of reordering......Page 133
References......Page 134
READING 3A Jane Jacobs: ‘The uses of sidewalks: safety’......Page 135
READING 3B Mike Davis: ‘Urban control: the ecology of fear’......Page 138
READING 3C Andy Beckett: ‘Take a walk on the safe side’......Page 144
1 Introduction: inside cities......Page 148
2.1 IMPOSING RACIAL DOMINATION IN THE COLONIAL CITY......Page 152
References......Page 154
2.2 IMPROVEMENT OR SEGREGATION?......Page 158
Reference......Page 159
2.3 ECONOMIES OF DIFFERENTIATION......Page 160
3 Living in the differentiated city......Page 165
3.1 SEPARATE LIVES?......Page 166
3.2 BORDER CROSSINGS…......Page 169
3.3 SPACES OF POWER?......Page 172
4 What should be done about segregation?......Page 175
References......Page 181
READING 4A David Theo Goldberg: ‘Racism, the city and the state’......Page 183
READING 4B Mzwanele Mayekiso: ‘Township politics: civic struggles for a new South Africa’......Page 185
READING 4C Richa Naga: ‘Communal places and the politics of multiple identities’......Page 188
1 Introduction......Page 194
2 Case study: Sydney—the Better Cities Programme......Page 197
3 Power and politics in the city......Page 201
4.1 PRIVATE-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS: URBAN GROWTH COALITIONS, CITY MARKETING......Page 205
4.2 NIMBYISM......Page 206
4.3 COMMUNITY-BASED CITY POLITICS AND URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS......Page 210
4.3.1 The squatters movement......Page 211
4.3.2 Women’s refuges......Page 212
4.3.3 The Green Ban Movement in Sydney......Page 213
5.1 THE POLITICS OF MEANING AND REPRESENTATION......Page 217
5.2 RECLAIMING THE STREETS......Page 222
References......Page 225
READING 5A Elijah Anderson: ‘Streetwise’......Page 227
READING 5B Iain Bruce: ‘Gay sites and the pink dollar’......Page 228
CHAPTER 6 The unsustainable city?......Page 233
2.1 CITIES IN DANGER?......Page 234
2.2 A VISION OF THE FUTURE......Page 240
2.3 THE CONTEMPORARY PROBLEM......Page 246
3.1 A SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE......Page 251
3.2 ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION AND THE CITY......Page 252
3.3 THE RADICAL PERSPECTIVE......Page 255
References......Page 258
4.1 TRANSPORT AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES......Page 259
4.2 SUSTAINABLE URBAN FORMS......Page 263
4.3 CHINESE CITIES: SUSTAINABILITY AND GROWTH......Page 266
5.1 THE LIMITS OF PLANNING......Page 270
5.2 PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES......Page 273
6 Conclusion: what is the sustainable city?......Page 276
References......Page 277
CHAPTER 7 Administered cities......Page 279
1 Introduction: managing unruly places......Page 280
2 Administration by design......Page 281
2.1 URBAN DESIGN AND POLITICAL POWER......Page 282
2.2 REINTERPRETING URBAN FORMS......Page 286
3 Building urban utopias......Page 289
3.1 FROM UTOPIA TO PRACTICE......Page 290
3.2 CRITICIZING THE UTOPIANS......Page 292
3.3 BEYOND THE CRITICISMS......Page 293
4 Administration as governance......Page 295
4.1 GLOBAL PLACE-MARKETING......Page 296
4.2 GOVERNANCE THROUGH REGIMES......Page 299
5 Administration and democracy......Page 303
6 Conclusion......Page 305
References......Page 306
READING 7A Le Corbusier: ‘A contemporary city of three million inhabitants’......Page 308
READING 7B Jane Jacobs: ‘The generators of diversity’......Page 312
READING 7C Nicholas Howe: ‘Berlin Mitte’......Page 314
READING 7D Gerry Stoker: ‘Regime theory and urban politics’......Page 316
References......Page 319
1 The jumbled orderings of the city......Page 321
2 Interventions in urban space......Page 325
3 Intervening in the spatialities of the city......Page 329
3.1 ON UNEVENNESS…......Page 330
3.2 ON OPENNESS…......Page 332
4 Unruly cities?......Page 333
References......Page 334
READING 8A Richard Sennett: ‘Ordinary lives in disorder’......Page 335
READING 8B Richard Rogers: ‘Cities for a small planet’......Page 338
CHAPTER 1......Page 340
CHAPTER 3......Page 341
CHAPTER 5......Page 342
CHAPTER 7......Page 343
CHAPTER 8......Page 344
Index......Page 345