Urban Theory (eBook, PDF)

New critical perspectives
Redaktion: Jayne, Mark; Ward, Kevin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer covering topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities. The chapters explore twenty-four topics, which are new additions to the urban theoretical debate, highlighting their relationship to long established concerns that continue to have intellectual purchase, and which also engage with rich new and emerging avenues for debate. As a critical and assessable introduction to original and groundbreaking urban theory, the book will be essential reading for students in human geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, planning, political science and urban studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317644484
• Artikelnr.: 47382415

Autorenporträt

Mark Jayne is Professor of Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK. Kevin Ward is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Manchester Urban Institute at the University of Manchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of case studies

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

1 A twenty-first century introduction to urban theory

Mark Jayne and Kevin Ward



2 Affect



Ben Anderson



3 Architecture



Richard Baxter



4 Assemblages



Ignatio Faria



5 Bodies



Robyn Longhurst



6 Commons



Andre Pusey and Paul Chatterton



7 Community



Deborah Martin



8 Comparison



Jennifer Robinson



9 Consumption



Steve Miles



10 Encounters



Helen F. Wilson



11 Entrepreneurialism



David Wilson



12 Gentrification



Loretta Lees



13 Governance

Mark Davidson

14 Informalities

Melanie Lombard and Paula Meth

15 Learning

Colin McFarlane

16 Materialities

Alan Latham

17 Mobilities

Ola Söderström

18 Neo-liberalism

Ugo Rossi

19 Play

Quentin Stevens

20 Politics

Andy Jonas

21 Rhythm

Tim Edensor

22 Rights

Joaquin Villanueva

23 Sexuality

Jon Binnie

24 Suburban

Roger Keil

25 Sustainability

Rob Krueger

26 Afterword

Mark Jayne and Kevin Ward



Bibliography

Index

Rezensionen

"A marvelous volume - comprehensive and critical, and chock-full of conceptually and theoretically sophisticated essays superbly accessible to both postgraduate and undergraduate students alike. It presents what is often difficult material in a form much easier to understand, hence making Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives an ideal tool for teaching and learning."

David Imbroscio, Professor of Political Science and Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville, USA

"This collection of essays provides an excellent introduction to a series of key debates in urban research. The contributions draw on a diverse range of literature and contemporary examples."

Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK

"Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives is a clever, timely roadmap for the often varied terrain of contemporary urban theory. The range of topics is ambitiously eclectic, yet carefully organized and edited for coherence. This reader is a must for scholars and students of urban sociology, politics, planning and geography."

Jason Hackworth, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Canada

"This collection of insightful essays provides students of cities with an A-Z guide to some of the key concepts popularized in contemporary Anglophone critical urban theory as it seeks to make sense of global urbanization and urban life."

Helga Leitner, Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, University of California, USA