The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory

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Copyright: 2/1/2002

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This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his theoretical methods.

Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She was the founding President of the Society for the Anthropology of North America. She is the author of Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Community (1982), co-author of Medical Anthropology and the World System (1997), and co-editor, with Thomas C. Patterson, of Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 2000).

Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed in 1979. In the 1970s he directed the seminar on urban sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has also been a visiting professor of urban planning at the Universidad Cat=lica de Chile, Ecole d'Architecture de l'UniversitT de GenFve, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Southern California. Among other awards, he has received the Silver Medal in Urbanism from the City of Madrid in 1999 and the 2001 Kevin Lynch Award in Urban Design and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1998 he accepted the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association for his life-long contribution to urban sociology.

List of figures

vii

List of tables

Acknowledgments

Manuel Castells: Conceptualizing the City in the Information Age

(12)

Ida Susser

Part I A Theoretical Approach to the City in Advanced Capitalism

(58)

Urbanization (1972)

(19)

Epistemological Introduction

(5)

The Historical Process of Urbanization

(1)

The Urban Phenomenon

(13)

The Urban Ideology (1972)

(37)

The Myth of Urban Culture

(9)

From Urban Society to Urban Revolution

(9)

The Urban Sub-cultures

(18)

Part II Social Movements and Urban Culture

(182)

Immigrant Workers and Class Struggles in Advanced Capitalism: The Western European Experience (1975)

(34)

Collective Consumption and Urban Contradictions in Advanced Capitalism (1978)

107

(23)

City and Culture: The San Francisco Experience (1983)

130

(123)

San Francisco: The Social Basis of Urban Quality

130

(9)

Urban Poverty, Ethnic Minorities and Community Organization: The Experience of Neighbourhood Mobilization in San Francisco's Mission District

139

(41)

Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation and Urban Structure: The Gay Community in San Francisco

180

(51)

Methodological Appendix

231

(22)

Part III The City in the Information Age

253

(137)

The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism (1989)

255

(30)

Information Technology, the Restructuring of Capital-Labor Relationships, and the Rise of the Dual City (1989)

285

(29)

The Space of Flows (1996, 2nd edn 2000)

314

(53)

The Culture of Cities in the Information Age (1999)

367

(23)

Conclusion: Urban Sociology in the Twenty-first Century (2000)

390

(17)

Bibliography of Urban and Regional Studies by Manuel Castells, 1967-2000

407

(5)

Index

412

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