1st Edition

Reason in the City of Difference

By Gary Bridge Copyright 2005
192 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmatism (and its contemporary developments in feminism and the philosophy of communication) to explore the... Read more
1. Reason in the City of Difference  2. On the Body  3. On the Street  4. In the Community  5. In the Public Realm  6. At Home and Work in the Urban Economy  7. In City Hall  8. Cosmopolitan Reason and the Global City

Biography

Gary Bridge is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies University of Bristol. Recent publications include A Companion to the City (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell City Reader (2002), both co-edited with Sophie Watson.