Cities
This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of life. They outline an innovative sociology of the city that scatters urban life along a series of sites and circulations, reinstating previously suppressed areas of contemporary urban life…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Thrift, Nigel
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-2413-6
- EAN: 9780745624136
- Produktnummer: 1589084
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 399 g
- Gewicht: 399
Über den Autor
Ash Amin is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. Nigel Thrift is Professor of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.
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