Dorothee (Hrsg.) Brantz

Thick Space

Approaches to Metropolitanism

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Could the concepts of metropolitanism and thick space aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cin… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Disko, Sasha (Hrsg.) / Wagner-Kyora, Georg (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-8376-2043-6
EAN: 9783837620436
Produktnummer: 12740560
Verlag: Transcript Verlag
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 383 S.
Masse: H23.7 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.8 cm 600 g
Gewicht: 600

Über den Autor

Dorothee Brantz is a professor of urban environmental history and the director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include urban environmental history, the history of war and peace, and the different temporalities of the urban.Sasha Disko is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).Georg Wagner-Kyora is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).