The New Blackwell Companion to the City

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The New Blackwell Companion to the City 5 Contents 7 List of Contributors 12 Preface 15 Acknowledgments 17 Part I: City Materialities 19 Chapter 1: Reflections on Materialities 21 Chapter 2: Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 33 Chapter 3: The Liquid City of Megalopolis 44 Chapter 4: Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century 56 Chapter 5: Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 66 Chapter 6: Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis 75 Chapter 7: Objects and the City 84 Chapter 8: Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore 97 Chapter 9: The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings 114 Chapter 10: One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 126 Chapter 11: The New Military Urbanism 139 Chapter 12: The City’s New “ Trinity ” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 152 Chapter 13: Residence Through Revolution and Reform 160 Part II: City Mobilities 173 Chapter 14: Reflections on Mobilities 175 Chapter 15: “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control 187 Chapter 16: Transnationality and the City 197 Chapter 17: Migrants MakingTechnology Markets 211 Chapter 18: Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City 228 Chapter 19: Nomadic Cities 239 Chapter 20: Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City 253 Chapter 21: Disease and Infectionin the City 263 Chapter 22: Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space 273 Chapter 23: Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space 283 Part III: City Affect 293 Chapter 24: Reflections on Affect 295 Chapter 25: Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield , the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City 306 Chapter 26: The Future of New York’s Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11 322 Chapter 27: Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China 335 Chapter 28: The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai’s Cinematic Hong Kong 345 Chapter 29: Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City 355 Chapter 30: City Life and the Senses 365 Chapter 31: The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies 375 Chapter 32: The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces 385 Part IV: City Publics and Cultures 395 Chapter 33: Reflections on Publicsand Cultures 397 Chapter 34: Reflections on the Public Realm 408 Chapter 35: City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of theTwenty-First Century? 416 Chapter 36: “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference 425 Chapter 37: The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho 437 Chapter 38: Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s 449 Chapter 39: The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City 460 Chapter 40: Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore 470 Chapter 41: Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City 481 Chapter 42: The Street Politics of Jackie Smith 494 Chapter 43: Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle 506 Part V: City Divisions and Differences 517 Chapter 44: Reflections on Divisionand Difference 519 Chapter 45: The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu 529 Chapter 46: Traveling Theory: EmbracingPost-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities 539 Chapter 47: Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City 550 Chapter 48: Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary 565 Chapter 49: Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance 579 Chapter 50: Gentrification of the City 589 Chapter 51: The Homosexuality of Cities 604 Chapter 52: Gendering Urban Space 614 Chapter 53: Nights in the Global City 624 Part VI: City Politics and Planning 635 Chapter 54: Reflections on Politics and Planning 637 Chapter 55: Urban Planning in an Uncertain World 649 Chapter 56: The Three Historic Currents of City Planning 661 Chapter 57: Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below 674 Chapter 58: Shaping Good Citiesand Citizens 685 Chapter 59: Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 697 Chapter 60: Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China’s Cities 708 Chapter 61: Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China’s Urbanism in the Making 719 Chapter 62: Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City 731 Chapter 63: Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies 744 Chapter 64: Making Up Global Urban Policies 756 Chapter 65: Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed? 765 Index 777 "This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind. Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly. Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities."-- "Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexity and diversity and the processes and structures that bind them together reach out across the globe. This volume considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. Whilst considering established themes, such as urban divisions and differences, publics and cultures, politics and planning, the New Blackwell Companion to the City also addresses new debates on subjects like materiality, mobilities, and environment. Incorporating international examples, this book explores the economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues that flow from and within the modern city"-- "Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexity and diversity and the processes and structures that bind them together reach out across the globe. This volume considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. Whilst considering established themes, such as urban divisions and differences, publics and cultures, politics and planning, the New Blackwell Companion to the City also addresses new debates on subjects like materiality, mobilities, and environment. Incorporating international examples, this book explores the economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues that flow from and within the modern city"-- Provided by publisher "Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexity and diversity and the processes and structures that bind them together reach out across the globe. This volume considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. Whilst considering established themes, such as urban divisions and differences, publics and cultures, politics and planning, the New Blackwell Companion to the City also addresses new debates on subjects like materiality, mobilities, and environment. Incorporating international examples, this book explores the economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues that flow from and within the modern city"--Résumé de l'éditeur This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.

• The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind
• Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field
• Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly
• Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities

"This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind. Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly. Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities."--Résumé de l'éditeur Annotation This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities