Research Catalog

Title

A companion to the city / edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bridge, Gary.
• Watson, Sophie.

Description

xiv, 640 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"A Companion to the City sets out to think about cities in more textured ways and brings together scholars from a range of fields to create a multidisciplinary approach to cities. Academics from disciplines as diverse as film studies and economics, philosophy and geography, turn their attention to the city and generate exciting new ways of thinking." "This Companion provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to geography ; [1]

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to geography ; 1.

Subjects

• Cities and towns
• Cross-cultural studies
• Cities and towns > Cross-cultural studies
• Cultuurverandering
• Sociaal-economische verandering
• Steden
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Urbanität
• Stadtleben
• Stadtgeografie
• Stadt
• cities
• Cities

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. Imaging Cities. 1. City Imaginaries / Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 2. Three Urban Discourses / John Rennie Short. 3. Putting Cities First: Remapping the Origins of Urbanism / Edward W. Soja. 4. Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below / Anthony Vidler. 5. The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination, and Media Technologies / James Donald. 6. Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City / Lesley Caldwell. 7. The City as Imperial Centre: Imagining London in Two Caribbean Novels / Riad Akbur. 8. Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams / Steve Pile.

ISBN

• 0631210520
• 9780631210528
• 0631235787
• 9780631235781

LCCN

• 00024885
• 9780631210528

OCLC

• ocm43441442
• 43441442
• SCSB-1232616

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library