A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective.
- Indispensable companion for students of the City.
- Multidisciplinary approach of interest across several fields.
- Includes contributions from major scholars in the field.
List of Contributors.
List of Illustrations.
Introduction.
Part I: Imagining Cities:.
1 City Imaginaries: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.
2. Three Urban Discourses: John Rennie Short.
3. Putting Cities First: Re-mapping the Origins of Urbanism: Ed Soja.
4. Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below: Anthony Vidler.
5. The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination and Media Technologies: James Donald.
6. Film, Representation and Naples: Lesley Caldwell.
7. The City as an Imperial Centre: Imagining London in two Caribbean Novels: Riad Akbur.
8. Sleepwalking the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams: Steve Pile.
9. Contested Images of the City. City as Locus of Status, Capitalist Accumulation and Community - Competing Cultures in Southeast Asian Societies: Patrick Guinness.
Part II: The Economy and the City:.
10. City Economies: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.
11. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities: Ash Amin.
12. Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis: Andy Merrifield.
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