The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Bridge, Gary / Watson, Sophie (Editor)

Blackwell Companions to Geography

1. Edition March 2011
784 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8981-1

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the City provides a guide to the major themes in urban studies. Building on well established debates in the field, this volume provides students and scholars with a contemporary update on urban thinking. Including new contributions on materiality of cities, networks, and the environment, this volume also includes expanded coverage of non-Western cities, including cities in China and India.

Further versions

This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.
* The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind
* Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field
* Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly
* Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I:City Materialities

Part II: City Mobilities

Part III: City Affect

Part IV: City Publics and Cultures

Part V: City Divisions and Differences

Part VI: City Politics and Planning

Index

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.

G. Bridge, University of Bristol, UK; S. Watson, The Open University, UK