INDICE: Foreword (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). Section 1: City Materialities. 1. Reflections on Materialities (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). 2. Neoliberal urbanism: cities and the rule of markets (Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck and Neil Brenner). 3. The Liquid City of Megalopolis (John Rennie Short). 4. Ups and downs in the global city: London and New York in the 21st century (Susan S.Fainstein, Ian Gordon and Michael Harloe). 5. Ethnography of an Indian city: Ahmedabad (Amrita Shah). 6 Landscape and infrastructure in the post-industrialmetropolis (Matthew Gandy). 7 Objects and the City (Harvey Molotch). 8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-rise Housing in Singapore (Jane M. Jacobs; Stephen Cairns). 9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and NewBeginnings (Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw). 10 One hundred tons to Armageddon: cities combat carbon (Peter Droege). 11 The New Military Urbanism (StephenGraham). 12 The Citys New Trinity in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market (Wang Xiaoming; translated by Tyler Rooker). 13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform (Ray Forrest). Section 2: City Mobilities. 14 Reflections on Mobilities (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). 15 Nothing Gained by Overcrowding: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control (Andrew Ross). 16 Transnationality and the City (Nina Glick Schiller). 17 Migrants Making Technology Markets: The Case of Shanghai (Tyler Rooker). 18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City (Saskia Sassen). 19 Nomadic Cities (David Pinder). 20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City (Francis Dodsworth). 21 Disease and Infection in the City (Simon Carter). 22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space (Daniel J. Walkowitz). 23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space (Brian Ladd). Section 3 City Affect. 24 Reflections on Affect (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). 25 Intensities of Feeling Cloverfield, the uncanny, and the always near collapse of the city (Steve Pile). 26 The Future of New Yorks Destruction: Fantasies,Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11 (Max Page). 27 Public Spaces? Branding,Civility and the Cinema in 21st Century China (Stephanie Hemelryk Donald). 28The Postmetropolis and Mental Life:Wong Kar-Wais Cinematic Hong Kong (Christoph Lindner). 29 Imagining Naples: The senses of the City (Lesley Caldwell). 30City Life and the Senses (John Urry). 31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: materials, affect, bodies (AbdouMaliq Simone). 32 The City, the Psyche and theVisibility of Religious Spaces (Andrew Hill). Section 4: City Cultures and Publics. 33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson).34 Reflections on the public realm (Richard Sennett). 35 City-zenship in contemporary China: Shanghai: Capital of the 21st century? (Michael Keith). 36 Just diversity in the city of difference (Ku
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-8981-1
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
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- Fecha Publicación: 04/03/2011
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