دانلود کتاب Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.Content: Chapter 1 Understanding the City (pages 3–23): John Eade and Christopher MeleChapter 2 Rescripting Cities with Difference (pages 27–48): Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs and Kay AndersonChapter 3 The Public City (pages 49–65): Sophie WatsonChapter 4 Social Justice and the South African City (pages 66–81): David M. SmithChapter 5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States (pages 82–106): Sophie Body?GendrotChapter 6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global (pages 109–130): Michael Peter SmithChapter 7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo?Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells1 (pages 131–158): Peter MarcuseChapter 8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development (pages 159–180): Mark GottdienerChapter 9 State Socialism, Post?Socialism and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience (pages 183–203): Chris PickvanceChapter 10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond (pages 204–221): Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing ChanChapter 11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia (pages 222–243): J. S. EadesChapter 12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore (pages 247–277): Smriti SrinivasChapter 13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power (pages 278–304): Shlomo HassonChapter 14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements (pages 305–335): Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana BrittsChapter 15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development (pages 339–362): Michael IndergaardChapter 16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space (pages 363–378): Alexander J. ReichlChapter 17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies (pages 379–396): Leonard NevarezChapter 18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood (pages 397–418): Jan Lin