Understanding the City Contemporary and Future Perspectives [Paperback]

List of Illustrations viii

List of Tables ix

List of Contributors x

Series Editors’ Preface xv

Preface xvii

Part I: Introduction 1

1 Understanding the City 3
John Eade and Christopher Mele

Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City 25

2 Rescripting Cities with Difference 27
Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs, and Kay Anderson

3 The Public City 49
Sophie Watson

4 Social Justice and the South African City 66
David M. Smith

5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States 82
Sophie Body-Gendrot

Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development 107

6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global 109
Michael Peter Smith

7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 131
Peter Marcuse

8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development 159
Mark Gottdiener

Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe 181

9 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience 183
Chrlcš