Gary (Hrsg.) Bridge

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

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Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexity and diversity and the processes and structures that bind them together reach out across the globe.This volume considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. Whilst considering established themes, such as urban divisions and differences, publics and cultures, politics and planning,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Watson, Sophie (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8981-1
EAN: 9781405189811
Produktnummer: 16223921
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 784 S.
Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.8 cm x D4.9 cm 1'534 g
Gewicht: 1534
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005) and co-editor of Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and The Blackwell City Reader (with Sophie Watson, second edition 2010).Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997) and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995), Metropolis Now (1994), and The Blackwell City Reader (with Gary Bridge, second edition 2010), among other publications.