Introduction
1.The city: what?
2. The mobile city
3.The relational city
4. Efficiency and the city
5.The sentient city
6. Phenomenology and the city
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Rob Sullivan is a former lecturer in geography at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century and Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography. His book, The Geography of the Everyday: Toward An Understanding of the Given, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2017.
"How truly different is living in a city from in the countryside? Is it just a question of population density or is it more about the projects and paths that channel everyday life? In other words, are cities truly distinctive "objects," however much one might differ in its layout and phenomenology from another? Are cities changing their shape in response to dominant changes in the workings of the world economy? These are the sorts of questions that animate this book. The author, Rob Sullivan, has interesting responses to all of them. What I like most about the book, however, is his refusal to confuse responses with totalizing answers."
John Agnew, Department of Geography, UCLA.
