Urban Theory and the Urban Experience Encountering the City

Name: Urban Theory and the Urban Experience Encountering the City
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ISBN: 9780415245920

ISBN-10: 0415245923

ISBN-13: 9780415245920

Edition: 2003

Authors: Simon Parker

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For the first time Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies, and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe to one another.Both students and urban scholars will appreciate the critical way in which classical and contemporary debates on the nature of the city are presented. Extensive use is made throughout of documentary, literary and cultural sources to bring the different theoretical perspectives to life. Discussion points introduce and explain key concepts and intellectual histories in a jargon free manner. End of…

Book details

List price: $72.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




Introduction: Encountering the City



The Foundations of Urban Theory: Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebvre



The City Described: Social Reform And The Empirical Tradition in Classic Urban Studies



Visions of Utopia: From the Garden City to the New Urbanism



The City and the Suburb: Urban Studies In The United States and Britain after the Second World War



Urban Fortunes: Making Sense of the Capitalist City



The Contested City: Politics, People and Power



From Pillar to Post: Culture, Representation and Difference in the Urban World



Putting the City in its Place: Urban Futures and the Future of Urban Theory