A Companion to the City

Companion to the City provides an authoritative view of the major issues in the field of urban studies. It outlines established approaches to understanding the urban condition and presents an introduction to contemporary thinking and debate. The Companion is multidisciplinary and includes contributions from significant writers from a diversity of disciplines, locations, and traditions. This book provides the reader with not only a definition of the field of urban studies, but also an indispensable overview of all the key debates, controversies, and questions from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points.

Gary Bridge is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and writes on issues of rationality, time, space and the city.

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Her recent books include Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (with Peter Murphy, 1997) and Postmodern Cities and Spaces (co-edited with Katherine Gibson, Blackwell, 1995).

List of Contributors

ix

List of Illustrations

xi

Introduction

1

(4)

Part I Imagining Cities

5

(94)

City Imaginaries

7

(11)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

Three Urban Discourses

18

(8)

John Rennie Short

Putting Cities First: Remapping the Origins of Urbanism

26

(9)

Edward W. Soja

Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below

35

(11)

Anthony Vidler

The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination, and Media Technologies

46

(9)

James Donald

Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City

55

(10)

Lesley Caldwell

The City as Imperial Centre: Imagining London in Two Caribbean Novels

65

(10)

Riad Akbur

Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams

75

(12)

Steve Pile

Contested Imaginings of the City: City as Locus of Status, Capitalist Accumulation, and Community: Competing Cultures of Southeast Asian Societies

87

(12)

Patrick Guinness

Part II The Economy and the City

99

(150)

City Economies

101

(14)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities

115

(15)

Ash Amin

Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis

130

(11)

Andy Merrifield

Monocentric to Policentric: New Urban Forms and Old Paradigms

141

(14)

William A. V. Clark

Ups and Downs in the Gobal City: London and New York at the Millennium

155

(13)

Susan S. Fainstein

Michael Narloe

Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City

168

(13)

Saskia Sassen

Turbulence and Sedimentation in the Labor Markets of Late Twentieth-Century Metropoles

181

(11)

Nick Buck

Ian Gordon

Informational Cities: Beyond Dualism and Toward Reconstruction

192

(15)

Bob Catterall

Diaspora Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development

207

(17)

Chung Tong Wu

Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City

224

(13)

Charles Rutheiser

Urban Transformation in the Capitals of the Baltic States: Innovation, Culture and Finance

237

(12)

Philip Cooke

Erik Terk

Raite Karnite

Giedrius Blagnys

Part III Cities of Division and Difference

249

(118)

City Differences

251

(10)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

Postcolonialism, Representation, and the City

261

(9)

Anthony D. King

Cities in Quarters

270

(12)

Peter Marcuse

Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and the European City

282

(10)

Alisdair Rogers

Working out the Urban: Gender Relations and the City

292

(15)

Liz Bondi

Hazel Christie

The Sexual Geography of the City

307

(9)

Frank Mort

From the Other Side of the Tracks: Dual Cities, Third Spaces, and the Urban Uncanny in Contemporary Discourses of ``Race'' and Class

316

(15)

Phil Cohen

Gentrification, Postindustrialism, and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities

331

(11)

Chris Hamnett

Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul

342

(12)

Kevin Robins

Asu Aksoy

Value Conflicts, Identity Construction, and Urban Change

354

(13)

Lily L. Kong

Part IV Public Cultures and Everyday Space

367

(136)

City Publics

369

(11)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

Reflections on the Public Realm

380

(8)

Richard Sennett

City Life and the Senses

388

(10)

John Urry

With Child to See Any Strange Thing: Everyday Life in the City

398

(12)

Nigel J. Thrift

Walter Benjamin, Urban Studies, and the Narratives of City Life

410

(20)

Michael Keith

``X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive?''

430

(7)

M. Christine Boyer

Walking and Performing ``the City'': A Melbourne Chronicle

437

(11)

Benjamin Rossiter

Katherine Gibson

The Street Politics of Jackie Smith

448

(12)

John Paul Jones III

Wonderful, Terrible: Everyday Life in Bangkok

460

(12)

Annette Hamilton

Street Boys in Yogyakarta: Social and Spatial Exclusion in the Public Spaces of the City

472

(17)

Harriot Beazley

Cyberspace and the City: The ``Virtual City'' in Europe

489

(14)

Alessandro Aurigi

Stephen Graham

Part V Urban Politics and Urban Interventions

503

(127)

City Interventions

505

(12)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

Planning in Relational Space and Time: Responding to New Urban Realities

517

(14)

Patsy Healey

The Social Construction of Urban Policy

531

(12)

Allan D. Cochrane

Urban Planning in the Late Twentieth Century

543

(12)

Patrick Troy

Varied Legacies of Modernism in Urban Planning

555

(12)

Alan Mabin

The Environment of the City...or the Urbanization of Nature

567

(14)

Erik Swyngedouw

Maria Kailza

Power and Urban Politics Revisited: The Uses and Abuses of North American Urban Political Economy

581

(10)

Alan Harding

Social Justice and the City: Equity, Cohesion and the Politics of Space

591

(8)

Fran Tonkiss

Property Markets and the Production of Inequality

599

(10)

Michael Edwards

The Politics of Universal Provision of Public Housing

609

(8)

Chua Beng Huat

Reintegrating the Apartheid City? Urban Policy and Urban Restructuring in Durban

617

(13)

Alison Todes

Index

630

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A Companion to the City

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