2nd Edition
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience Encountering the City
1. Encountering the City 2.The Foundations of Urban Theory: Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebvre 3. The City Described: Social Reform and the Empirical Tradition in Classic Urban Studies 4.Visions of Utopia: From the Garden City to the New Urbanism 5. Between the Suburb and the Ghetto: Urban Studies and the Search for Community In Britain and the United States After the Second World War 6. Urban Fortunes: Making Sense of the Capitalist City 7. The Contested City: Politics, People and Power 8. The Majority Urban World: the Growth and Development of Cities in the Global South 9. Cities Under Stress: the Uneven Geographies of Urban Deprivation 10. From Pillar to Post: Culture Representation and Difference 11. The Information City: Linking the Virtual and Material Urban Worlds 12. Putting the City in its Place: Urban Futures and the Future of Urban Theory
Biography
Simon Parker is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Research at the University of York, UK. His research primarily focuses on urban studies and urban theory, socio-spatial informatics, the politics of asylum and immigration, and comparative European politics (with particular reference to Italy). He is the author of Cities, Politics and Power (Routledge 2011).
