Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City

Abstract

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

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