The Blackwell City Reader
2. Edition February 2010
472 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-4051-8983-5
John Wiley & Sons
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
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
"This new edition covers so much terrain of the urban
scholarship that it is truly a very comprehensive and
interdisciplinary reader for any course on cities and urban
studies."
--Xiangming Chen, Trinity College
"A rich and varied collection of important articles on
cities. Selections range from older classic pieces to more recent
insights, and the book provides a nice mix of European and American
views of cities, whilst including writings about other areas of the
world, especially China. Altogether this is an excellent and
exciting collection of major writings."
--Anthony M. Orum, University of Illinois
"The second edition of The Blackwell City Reader is
even better than the first - and that was a milestone. The
Reader covers the full spectrum of approaches to the city
concisely but with real authority. As a result, it is a vital
introduction to thinking about cities in a time when global
problems and urban problems have become effectively
interchangeable."
--Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
scholarship that it is truly a very comprehensive and
interdisciplinary reader for any course on cities and urban
studies."
--Xiangming Chen, Trinity College
"A rich and varied collection of important articles on
cities. Selections range from older classic pieces to more recent
insights, and the book provides a nice mix of European and American
views of cities, whilst including writings about other areas of the
world, especially China. Altogether this is an excellent and
exciting collection of major writings."
--Anthony M. Orum, University of Illinois
"The second edition of The Blackwell City Reader is
even better than the first - and that was a milestone. The
Reader covers the full spectrum of approaches to the city
concisely but with real authority. As a result, it is a vital
introduction to thinking about cities in a time when global
problems and urban problems have become effectively
interchangeable."
--Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
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).
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).
