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The Blackwell City Reader (Blackwell Readers in Geography) [Paperback]

Gary Bridge (Editor), Sophie Watson (Editor)


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November 18, 2002 0631225145 978-0631225140 1
At a time when cities are firmly back on the agenda, this Reader brings together work by prestigious academics, literary figures, political economists, geographers, film theorists, urban planners and gender theorists in order to challenge established ways of thinking about urban life.

  • Develops a new framework for interpreting cities.
  • Includes a variety of voices from literary figures to academics.
  • Takes a global approach, looking at western and non-western cities.
  • Combines canonical texts with contemporary theories on urban life.
  • Can be used alongside 'A Companion to the City' (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).


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The Blackwell City Reader is an excellent volume, with a generous, innovative and imaginative selection of texts. Overall, the Blackwell City Reader is more than the sum of its parts, providing powerful and diverse glances at where city (and urban geography) is going." (International Journal of Enviromental Studies)

"Arguably the most striking feature of this collection is the interdisciplinary nature of the writings, highlighting a changing approach to urban research which realizes that a rich analysis of the city can no longer be divided into traditional disciplines.... Together the two books offer a stimulating collection of readings that will be widely consulted by sociologists, geographers and anyone concerned with the contemporary developments of urban life, and should not be missed by those interested in urban studies." (Progress in Human Geography)

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"The sheer range of city voices in this Reader means that it is both authoritative and at the same time sympathetic to diversity. An indispensable guide to where it's at in the modern city."
Nigel Thrift, University of Bristol

"This is an outstanding collection. With editorial flair it brings together the most important commentaries on urban life from a wide range of disciplines. It contains some of the best and most insightful writing on the city to date. As such this book transcends the limits of academic endeavour and becomes a cultural intervention in its own right."
Angela McRobbie, Goldsmith's College, University of London


Product Details

  • Paperback: 600 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (November 18, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0631225145
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631225140
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #802,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
No city stands in bricks and mortar which is not also a space of the imagination or of representation. Read the first page
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cement kiosk, elevator receipts, modernist planners, enabling justice, waste pickers, public cyberspace, urban process under capitalism, revanchist city, physical grain, urban entrepreneurialism, colonial planning, modernist planning, townless highway, bourgeois response, planning theorists, disability oppression, urban analysts, ghetto underclass, city trenches, urban discourse, rational city, urban explorers, new industrial spaces, homeless residents, six discourses
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New York, Los Angeles, United States, Parque Central, South Africa, University of California Press, Costa Rica, David Harvey, Orange County, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Board of Trade, Virginia Woolf, Cambridge University Press, Walter Benjamin, Basic Books, Beverly Hills, Greater Johannesburg, Princeton University Press, Tompkins Square Park, James Joyce, Mike Davis, Plaza de la Cultura, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georg Simmel
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