Questioning Cities

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1. Cities in Globalization

   Practices, Policies and Theories

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Searching for the Just City

   Debates in Urban Theory and Practice

   Edited by Peter Marcuse, James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid Olivo, Cuz Potter, Justin Steil

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
3. Urban Assemblages

   How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies

   Edited by Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender

   Series: Questioning Cities

   This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the...

   Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge
4. Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities

   Edited by Christoph Lindner

   Series: Questioning Cities

   What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture – extending from art and architecture to film and digital media – responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Addressing such...

   Published July 28th 2009 by Routledge
5. Life in the Megalopolis

   Mexico City and Sao Paulo

   By Lucia Sa

   Series: Questioning Cities

   The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Is their fractured reality, their...

   Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge
6. Cities, Nationalism and Democratization

   By Scott A. Bollens

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities. Bollens uses a wide-ranging set of over 100 interviews with local political and community leaders to investigate how popular urban policies can...

   Published April 4th 2007 by Routledge
7. Cities and Race

   America's New Black Ghetto

   By David Wilson

   Series: Questioning Cities

   This fascinating book examines the 1990s rise of a new black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto'. It uses the emergent perspective of 'racial economy' to delineate a fundamental proposition; historically neglected and marginalized black ghettos, in a 1990s era of societal boom and...

   Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge
8. Small Cities

   Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis

   By David Bell, Mark Jayne

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban...

   Published July 12th 2006 by Routledge
9. City Publics

   The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters

   By Sophie Watson

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than previously received. Concerned with...

   Published June 21st 2006 by Routledge
10. Urban Space and Cityscapes

    Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture

    Edited by Christoph Lindner

    Series: Questioning Cities

    From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Singapore to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this interdisciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in modern and contemporary culture. With specially-commissioned...

    Published March 1st 2006 by Routledge