The Blackwell City Reader

Bridge, Gary / Watson, Sophie (Editor)

2. Edition February 2010
466 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8982-8

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, the new edition of The Blackwell City Reader brings together a wide range of essential readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Selections are carefully gathered from a variety of academic disciplines to provide the most diverse perspectives and in-depth coverage of the field. The new edition incorporates major developments in the study of materialities and mobilities and features enhanced coverage on non-Western cities that reflect recent growth trends, especially in Asia, China, and India, making it the most international reader of its kind.

Further versions

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities.

* Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates
* The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India
* Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies
* Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City

Source Acknowledgments

Editors' introduction

Part I: Materialities

Part II: Mobilities

Part III: Division and Difference

Part IV: Urban publics and urban cultures

Part V: Urban Politics and Planning

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 A Companion to the City (with Sophie Watson, 2000).

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of, among other publications, City Publics: The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Markets as Sites for Social Interaction: Spaces of Diversity (with David Studdert, 2006), and Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (with Peter Murphy, 1997), and co-editor (with Katherine Gibson) of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995) and Metropolis Now (1994).

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