VOLUME I
Acknowledgements
Chronological Table of Reprinted Articles and Chapters
General Introduction
PART 1 The Urban Question
1 The city: suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the urban environment
2 Time and space in the consumption of place
3 Social theory, capitalism and the urban question
4 Politics and space/time
5 The nature of the city
6 Community studies 1
7 Extracts from The Country and the City
8 The audience: a gathering of strangers
9 Extracts from Writings on Cities
10 The myth of urban culture
PART 2 Urban Modernity
11 Paris, capital of the nineteenth century =
12 Mythic history: fetish
13 Modernité
14 The experience of the city
15 The metropolis and mental life
16 A modern tour in Brazil
17 The bohemian stage
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PART 3 Walking the City
18 The invisible flâneuse: women and the literature of modernity
19 Benjamin’s flâneur and the problem of realism
20 Watching your step: the history and practice of the flâneur
21 Walking in the city
22 The invisible flâneur
23 Urban spectatorship
24 The flâneur, the sandwichman and the whore
PART 4 Street Lives
25 The city as theatre: London in the 1820s
26 Scavengers and Cleaners
27 Extracts from Some types of character and society
28 Rodinsky’s place
29 The return to brick
30 The emporium of styles
31 Two beginnings
32 London luminaries and Cockney visionaries
VOLUME III
Acknowlegements
PART 5 Inclusion and exclusion
33 Signs taken for wonders: questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817
34 Home sweet home? Street children’s sites of belonging
35 Extract from Two sides of anti-racism
36 The stranger
37 Extract from The Condition of the Working Class in England
38 The organization of territory
39 Whose culture? Whose city?
40 Inside out: racism, class and masculinity in the ‘inner city’ and the English suburbs
PART 6 Urban Processes
41 Robert Moses: the expressway world
42 Ritual pleasures of a seaside resort: liminality, carnivalesque, and dirty weekends
43 The city: the sewer, the gaze and the contaminating touch
44 Extracts from Situationist International Anthology
45 Urban cultures: spatial tactics
46 Urban landscape and popular culture
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PART 7 Urban Pathology
47 The Kray fascination
48 Extract from The gang and the community
49 The traditional ‘way of life’
50 The image and the reality
51 Inside the Jago
52 The haunts of the East End anarchist: Evening Standard 2nd October 1894
53 American gothic
54 The history of East London: a stroll down Felony Lane
55 Jack the Ripper
PART 8 Postmodern Urbanism
56 Some reflections on postmodernism and architecture
57 A response to Kenneth Frampton
58 Postmodern Bombay: fractured discourses
59 Taking Los Angeles apart: towards a postmodern geography
60 Beyond the postmodern city: rethinking ethnography for transnational times
61 The postmodern debate over urban form
62 Hiding in the light: youth surveillance and display
Index
Biography
Chris Jenks
